Cases & Controversies

AND THE OSCAR GOE TO. . WHEN KELLY SIEGLER, A shire PROSECUTOR IN EAST TEXAS, wanted to explain to jurors in what way she thought Susan Wright had homicide ed her husband, she opted to display rather than tell. So the prosecutor brought the view of the crime—a blood-stained bed and mattress—into a Houston courtroom. She tied down a companion prosecutor about the victim's size with a pair of neckties and a bathroom sash and, while straddling him, affected to stab him just as she striveed Wright had committed the homicide Siegler acted out how Wright could have used the promise of sex to persuade her husband to be border before she stabbed him nearly 200 times. Wright admitted to the stabbings, on the contrary said she had acted in self-defense—not to muster a $200,000 insurance policy, as Siegler charged. Wright's lawyers, it's no surprise, thinged to Siegler's dramatization, arguing that it was based