Mack should have plead guilty for his wife's murder in the first place.
Still, he wants to blame others for his own rotten actions:
Set to start his defense Monday, Reno pawnshop owner Darren Mack instead abruptly ended his murder trial by accepting a plea deal that calls for a life prison term and gives him the chance to criticize the forces he claims drove him to his crimes.
The 46-year-old one-time multimillionaire was on trial for killing his wife and wounding the couple's divorce judge, Washoe County Family Court Chuck Weller. Mack is expected to use his sentencing in January as a public forum for criticizing the Family Court system.
Mack pleaded guilty Monday to first-degree murder for the June 12, 2006, throat-slashing of 39-year-old Charla Mack, and he entered an Alford plea to attempted murder with use of a deadly weapon for the sniper-style shooting of Weller. An Alford plea does not involve an admission of guilt but acknowledges that prosecutors could prove their case if it went to trial.
I wish nobody would give him a forum to spew hate towards Judge Weller and other judges.
Yet he claims he didn't want to drag the dead estranged wife Charla through the mud and said he wanted to accept "responsibility" for her death.
Go figure.
At least 11 jurors at the trial didn't buy the defense's argument:
After they were dismissed Monday, 11 jurors said they thought overwhelming evidence existed that Mack methodically plotted his crimes.
"It would have been a tough, tough job for them to prove that yes, he was insane for that period of time" when he shot Weller, said juror Ryan Murdy, 34, of Henderson.
Mack's obsession with what he perceived as the injustice of Family Court and his desire to change it by force -- even calling for armed revolution against the system -- did make him seem a bit crazy, but it did not convince jurors that he was so insane as to not know right from wrong.
