Your honor, ladies, and gentlemen of the jury, we are here to contemplate the life and intent of Mrs. Mary Maloney. I ask of you to envision a married woman, soon to birth the child of a man whom she loved; now imagine that man telling his wife that he would be leaving her and their child for someone younger and prettier. An innocent young woman was irreparably hurt by the man whose child she would soon give birth to; the destruction of her trust and love drove her without warning, into temporary insanity.

Mary Maloney had a fervent love for her husband and truly believed there were no faults in her marriage. We heard a sigh of sadness from this woman, proving that she “loved him for the way he sat loosely in a chair, for the way he came in …show more content…
Mrs. Maloney would soon have a child to take care of and to nurture, and when she killed her beloved husband, she was only thinking of her dear child and what would come of him/her. She herself, asked me, the defending lawyer, “What were the laws about murderers with unborn children? Did they kill them both - mother and child? Or did they wait until the tenth month? What did they do?” and carried on to tell me that she “didn’t know. And she certainly wasn’t prepared to take a chance.” Now, these are the words of a soon to be mother who would only ever think of her child and do anything for that child. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, knows no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path” quotes Agatha Christie, an award-winning author, who had children of her own. The quote itself states that “it knows no law, knows no pity”, telling us that a truly loving mother would honestly do anything for her child, regardless how dangerous or horrendous it might be, now who is to say that Mary Maloney didn’t feel those exact feelings and like many mothers out there, she actually went through with something terrible in order to protect her