There was some derisive laughter from the Corbett family in the public gallery on Tuesday
The sentencing hearing of Molly Martens and her father Thomas in the US will hear Victim Impact Statements from Jason Corbett's children in the coming days.
"He was basically speaking in general terms about the kind of characteristics you see in a household where there is domestic violence," he said. "He was arguing that she had no good reason to do what she did on the night, and the only driving factor for her was to keep the children so she had to keep Jason alive," he said.
"Then he showed him autopsy photographs of Jason Corbett... and he asked the expert witness, 'Were there good reasons for these injuries?'"This brought derisive laughter from the Corbett family in the public gallery, which has been the first show of emotion or outburst from anybody over the last eight days.
"The Martens family are kind of steeped in law enforcement; Tom, of course, had 30 years in the FBI and then became a counter-intelligence officer.
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