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Seriously. What would we do without her?

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/06/2 ... alism.html

The ubiquitous Allred organized a press conference on behalf of Yovonka Bryant “to help her have a voice.” Bryant, a slender, striking 27-year-old Miramar woman, stood next to Allred and told how over the last four months she had been the girlfriend of Rudy Eugene, the man who police shot dead on the MacArthur Causeway May 26. That attack had been of such inexplicable brutality that the case has since been inundated in international publicity. Some of us cynics assumed that the astounding media coverage explained the sudden appearance in Miami by Allred, who seems to hover around notorious criminal cases like a moth to Klieg lights.Allred stood in a Sofitel Hotel ballroom before a battery of cameras, ostensibly to assure the world that Bryant should not be judged by her association with Rudy Eugene. “She had no warning whatsoever that Mr. Eugene would have ever engaged in cannibalism,” Allred said, delivering a rebuttal to a premise that had never occurred to anyone.

I saw some of that presser and wondered why in the hell it was necessary.

Did the guy actually eat the victim's face, or did he just tear it off with his teeth? Because if he didn't swallow, it's not cannibalism.

That's a good point.

If he weren't dead, would the defense argue "if he didn't swallow a bit, you must acquit"?