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let his assistant shoulder the burden of viciously attacking Ms. Dana’s conduct and morals. In his own closing remarks, he focused on the issue of “irresistible impulse upon reasonable provocation.” He made an impassioned plea that Ted Gregory was a nice fella whose only crime was that he loved his wife with all his heart. He made excellent eye contact with the jurors and addressed them by name. He ended with Shakespeare. In contrast, Loudoun’s assistant commonwealth’s attorney. Mr. Mochling, has a quiet, undramatic style and a slight stutter—a handicap as devastating to a trial lawyer as it would be to a radio announcer. Not only did the prosecution fail to address the larger issues in the case—a man's ownership of his wife or the worth of a human life. The prosecution also failed to develop any of the evidence that would have kept their^ease on track, focused on Gregory's, and riot his ex-wife’s, guilt. The reasons for the Gregory’s Reparation were never brought out, letting stand the defense impression that up until the day his wife asked him to leave, theirs was the most perfect marriage in Middleburg.
The prosecutors got no mileage out of a prior visit Gregory made to his estranged wife during which the "nice, quiet fella” apparently struck her and drew blood. They failed to bring forth any character witnesses on Ms. Dana’s behalf and failed to make good use of her courageous and very explicit denial of an affair with Dale Smallwood.
But perhaps the prosecutor’s ultimate failure was their failure to challenge the defense’s portrayal of
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