
… I’ll confess to having been fascinated with the entire Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping trial from the beginning. Not because I’m a fan of kidnapping, of course, but it was just such a bizarre story right from the beginning, sounding more like the script for a Steven Soderbergh film than something that would unfold in real life. Unfortunately for the prosecutors, however, the case presented to the jury apparently sounded more like it really was a work of fiction than something that was based in reality.
