Okaayy….
There’s this:
“The initial portrayal by the media has been one of a ‘monster’ and that’s not the impression that I got when I talked to him for three hours.”
That’s the nonsense heard ’round Cleveland – nay, the world – today now that one of Ariel Castro’s attorneys, Craig Weintraub, has offered a few public thoughts on his client. We like to think he chose his wording carefully after perusing last week’s Scene (see below).
Overwhelming media attention locally and internationally surely has produced the judge, jury, executioner-type attitudes that preclude due process and all that. Could a venue change for any impending trial be in the future? We’ll see.
Questions like that are being mulled over this week, now that coverage of last week’s news has broadened considerably.
And such questions continue to roll in, now that attorneys have announced that Castro plans to plead not guilty. He is presently charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty said last week that additional charges are likely.
This article appears in May 8-14, 2013.
Uhhhh…Yes he is….
I bought a dog from this guy a few years back. He was very nervous, very short with words. He would not let me inside fence he handed pups over fence. After I paid him for pup and said thanks he just kept looking all around brought pups back in house did not say thanks back. He was strange and unpleasant. He did say, OK man to my thanks. He is more of a monster than not. To ever make a woman or girl to do something against their will is wrong, to hold them and beat them and repeatedly make them do what they would never naturally do is the definition of a monster.
dudes a nut…but a nut that knew what he was doing.He is a monster,or imo just a sick/evil minded person,and also imo am sick of paying for these kinda ppls food when they get life,,,they should expand the death penalty for more crimes..in this case..death is a good call.
I can almost understand defending your client.. afterall the constitution guarantees you are innocent until proven guilty. althiough in this case that’s a joke!.. but if Weintraub REALLY belives his client is not a monster, he should keep it to himself, Peole will start thining he is nuts.. Either way .. he needs to shut up.. no one wants to hear that bullsh-t or belives it.
What a shocker, the guy who is getting money to defend this creep thinks he isn’t a monster!
Oh, and maybe you don’t think he was a monster because you talked to him for three hours, as opposed to being held prisoner and raped for a decade. Perspective, you ******* idiot, perspective.
Why is anybody shocked at what a ‘defense’ attorney said??? They always say their client is just one swell person and we are all nuts with wrong info!