twist of fait accomplis

According to one report today, discussing Erika Sifrit's trial:

Frederick County State's Attorney Scott Rolle said it's likely Erika Sifrit's jury does not know that her husband, Benjamin, was found guilty of second-degree murder in one of the two killings and cleared in the other.

"In a sense, his defense was blaming it on his wife, now his wife's coming to court and blaming it on him. So if indeed both juries would believe that, you could potentially have both of them acquitted even though we know one of them, if not both of them, did it" stated Rolle.

That would be an interesting (and, certainly, disturbing) situation: one or both of them could be guilty but neither found guilty of first-degree murder.

Prosecutors rested their case Thursday, the third day of testimony, but didn't offer a motive for the murders that happened just over a year ago. Jurors were played a 911 call recorded the night of the murders in the apartment complex where the Crutchleys lived. The woman on the call, thought to be Erika Sifrit, said she thought she was about to be robbed. In Benjamin Sifrit's trial, this call was said to be part of a plan of Erika's to explain any reported gunshots and that "Crazy Erika" killed the Crutchleys over an imagined robbery. (More...)

The defense will present their case starting Friday. It is unknown whether Erika Sifrit will be called to testify.