Summary Of State V Mark Ducic

In the case State v. Mark Ducic, Mark is on trial for the murders of Barbra Davis and Donald (Don). Ducic had allegedly murdered Barbra for thinking she was going to tell the police about him dealing drugs, and Don for being the only witness to the murder. When Barbra died, her body was found with numerous drugs in her system and later her friend, Don was found dead too. When the coroner first received the bodies, she believed they had died to accidental overdoses, then after reviewing the police reports changed her mind to homicides that were done out through strategic planning. Ducic was said to have mixed oxycontin with other drugs to create a “hot shot” to make the drug injection look like an overdose. Mark Ducic has been in the systems

Their main argument was the Don was a pathological liar who was just trying to impress Weiss on the recordings. The defense had related Ducic to Walter Smitty since Walter would daydream about being somebody or something that he was not. They also wanted to convince the jury that Weiss had a lot to benefit from being cooperative with the police and helping them, meaning he would get Ducic to saying anything incriminating in order to help his own case. They also wanted to show that Weiss was an unreliable source who could not be trusted since during his time of being an undercover was on crack. While on the stand, the doctor had said that Ducic was hard to evaluate since he was a drug addict who had lied for the majority of his life. Ducic and his mother had also taken the stand. Mrs.Ducic, 85 years old at the time, spoke of how her son was an avid churchgoer who had promised to help her in any way possible once her husband had passed away. While on the stand, she was very emotional and cried when conveying to the message how firm of a believer she was that her son did not do anything wrong aside from lying about killing. Ducic too was emotional while making his closing statements and on the stand. His main objective was to make the jury feel bad for wanting to sentence him to death by saying “if you do sentence me to death, you will have to live with that fact”. In the end, the defense has succeeded in their goal of saving their defendants life by getting him charged with life without