do you think that it helps her case to have testified? she was blaming i guess her boyfriend for having misled her. yeah, you know, again, i think that this is an effort to try to get the jury to feel some sympathy for her. you know, i think that the defense is essentially i was so abused that my mind was so overborn that i wasn t able to think straight. even though a jury might be sympathetic, i think that they will see through it and say that she made statements that was not true. and so i think that it is a hard sell in light of the facts of her sbebld intent to degraduate. and the christmas holiday, do you let the jury go home for the weekend and risk contamination?. and the christmas holiday, do you let the jury go home for the weekend and risk contamination?.