Son Sealed Guilty Verdict of Gerhardt Konig

 

I watched much more of the testimony than I'd planned, and I believe justice was served in finding Dr. Gerhardt Konig guilty of attempted manslaughter. A better defense lawyer just might have gotten him off. But then again, he was convicted on the facts and witnesses for the prosecution.

The Facts:

GK bashed wife in the head with a rock causing serious injury

The bloody rock was found by police and identified as the assault weapon

GK evaded capture for eight hours

GK made two phone calls to son 

1. confessed his attempt to kill wife in first call

2. asked son in second call if he told anybody about his confession

3. he never said wife attacked him nor did he ask about her condition

GK ran from police when spotted and put up resistance when arrested

GK came up with self-defense story of wife attacking him first with rock 

GK found guilty

To think that a father would put his 19-year-old son through an emotional challenge of truth and consequences in front of the world to see says so much about Gerhardt Konig as a parent. Some have said he displays narcissistic behavior. After watching him testify and letting his defense attorney attempt to break his son on the witness stand, I agree that from the moment GK assaulted his wife his one and only concern was how to get away with what he did.

As for his defense attorney, a Mr. Thomas Otake, he was very easy to dislike and didn't seem as polished an attorney as one would expect for such a high-profile case as this. I'm no lawyer, but I've been a juror a number of times and feel an attorney's credibility is as much on display as the witnesses'. His choppy speech patterns and obfuscation of the facts seemed more exposing of a defense coverup than to shed any doubt on the evidence. 

Obfuscate: baffle, bewilder, confuse, discombobulate, fog, perplex, puzzle, stupefy, stupor

When Mr. Otake showed audio/video of the victim being treated for her wounds he asked the jury to close their eyes and not look but listen to the victim. Well, we a home watching didn't close our eyes. We watched this beaten and bloody woman who survived possibly being thrown off a mountain cliff looking the part of any heroic survivor. She fought for her life, for her children, and for the many women who find themselves victims of a man they thought loved them. 

National Domestic Violence Hotline

Instead of a loving birthday outing this man, a doctor of anesthesiology, turned into a jealous, hateful, murderous monster who unleashed scarring physical and emotional pain on the woman he once loved enough to marry and have children by.

Arielle Konig fought a good fight and is alive today thanks to her will to survive. Also, she owes much thankful prayers to the blessing of two angels appearing on the hiking path to distract and thwart a murderous attack by her husband, Gerhardt Konig.

GUILTY!

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guilty pleasure: there were times throughout this trial that I envisioned having Mr. Konig and/or his attorney placed flat on their back on the cliffside mountain trail while a woman straddled and struck them at least two times in the head with the evidential lava rock. I know, I'm gonna die and burn in hell! Lord forgive this sinner....

John 8:7