Thanks Xenon.
I appreciate your comments, but my primary concern is getting at the truth, either way, which will not happen if nobody advocates for the dead guy. So I am acting as Phillip Marshall's 'defencs counsel'. I've never met any of the family members but I have read the US Constitution. ;-)
I am looking for "Best Evidence" to make the truth easier to unravel.
On the prosecution side (Sean's and the sheriff's arguments), part of their BEST EVIDENCE that Phillip Marshall killed his kids is the mental stability thing which sheriffs relied on very heavily for their proof of guilt. But if that's a "best evidence" it sucks.
The union democrat article (very well written) shows that Phillip Marshal was "diagnosed" with a bipolar affective condition ... and then the medication was discontinued. Why? Due to lack of efficacy. Why wasn't it effective? Because he did NOT have a bipolar affective condition or had spontaneously recovered by 2007, five years before the deaths.
And this "treatment summary" came from Sean who, at this point, we can consider a "hostile witness" so we might also want to look into this, since she has a record of illegal behavior. Or shall we say she has a "criminal record" for improved clarity.
One treatment summary, from one psychiatrist (or two) and to whom was this summary issued? Normally "medical records" are confidential.
Let's now back up a step.
Guilt = "did the deed".
The only issue here, is whether or not he pulled the trigger in any or all of the murders. The mental stability issue only applies to guessing whether he might have. Even if he was wacked out, unless he murdered them, he's innocent.
And now let's drop that defense angle for a second and take a counter offensive tack.
If being a "bad parent" were at issue, Sean's complaint about Phillip Marshall being "controlling" may come from him being an airline captain, rather than being a "sociopath" (which is apparently her own "diagnosis"), and her performance as a parent is SHOCKING!
Ten kids over every weekend night in a downstairs room they call "the cave"? When I was a kid they used to call places like that a party pad.
It appears Macaila, under the parentage of the mom, may have been working on developing an addiction to alcohol. At the age of 14. Macaila, Sean Marshall/Plummer said was the more independent of the two kids.
Was she more independent, or dependent. The mom apparently let the kids run out of control.
[Note: Macaila's blood alcohol was higher than Alex's, and Phillips was zero. On top of that Macaila had taken diphenhydramine too. Also note that the sheriffs said they found whiskey and an open 12-pack of beer "in the home" but they did NOT specify where they found it.]
But being a STUPID mother (who happened to know the safe combination -- maybe we can get into the significance of that note found to Sean in the safe later) does not imply that she hired a hit team to take out her husband and kids because they were witnesses, and her dog for obvious reasons.
Neither theory is tenable for the simple reason that it isn't a proof of ANYTHING! It's a bind guess. These guesses are great for media sensationalism, but worthless as a "best evidence" of guilt or innocence.
Now with our heads on straight again...
As you noted, pretty much everyone was freaking out around 2001 - 2003 due to a) the 9/11 attacks and b) the rush to war in the WRONG COUNTRY, and about 1 in 10 Americans was suffering from depression even before that happened.
If the "best evidence" that Phillip Marshall was "depressed" or worse: bipolar affective, this suggests that he should have killed himself and his kids when he was taking the dangerous drug cocktail. He apparently spontaneously recovered mental illness at least three years prior to the event.
Even the best evidence of a bipolar disorder doesn't apply. [Note: the sheriffs' report, in the one "medical record" obtained under warrant only "suggested" that Phillip Marshall had "some kind of mental illness".]
Moreover, whether the details of his conspiracy theory were right or wrong, his latest post at his facebook page does not show any signs of mood change (so the "sociopath" theory is next in the queue?). AND it was apparently right.
People: KSM is NOT the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. How do we know this? (Find "judicial watch" above)
So how did the drug crazed delusional lunatic sociopathic overly-controling conspiracy theorist dad get that right despite the haze of delirium and depressing euphoria caused by his drug dependence?
And how did the mom get it wrong. And how did the sherrifs get it wrong.
Heres' Phillip Marshall's facebook page. The same can be seen on his twitter page though with less context, we see NO evidence of a mood change.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Big-Bamboozle/211695725591491
Here's another link to the judicial watch docs. (See "judicial watch" above for a description of their significance.) This judical watch article pertains to "best evidence" that 9/11 was not masterminded by the man whose confession was coerced after being waterboarded 180 times in one month. Is Cheney "psychic"? Note the dates.
About SSRIs.
From the defense angle the dangers of the drugs the Pharmaceutical companies hand out (even when 1 percent of infants convulse when given certain flu vaccines -- banned in Australia, still sold here), is counterproductive as a defense argument because it has no direct bearing on guilt or innocence in THIS case because the case boils down to "who pulled the trigger". Phillip Marshall -- Yes/No. And the accused enjoys the presumption of innocence until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and there are many very reasonable doubts due to the horrible job the sheriffs did and continue to do in their so called "investigation".
DNA tests and ballistics test results have not been revealed IN A MURDER INVESTIGATION after (now) 11 weeks.
WHY!