Let me start by saying I really struggled with my decision. I changed my mind about a million times. All we had to go on was circumstantial evidence. There was no "hard evidence". No one saw her go in the apartment or come out. There was none of her DNA, hair, etc., in the apartment (the crime scene). The only evidence was her fingerprint on a laundry soap bottle cap and some of the guy's dog's hair in her rental car. And her explanation of the fingerprint and the dog hair came down to, basically, "he said/she said". She said she was in the apartment on the 21st, he never said anything about her being there. But, in the end, I found her guilty. One thing I don't think the article talks about is the fact that the night before the murder, the defendant sat outside Bondar's apartment, watching his door, for 15 hours. And the morning of the murder she was seen by about 5-6 witnesses pacing outside his apartment. But, like I said above, no one saw her go in or come out.
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