The Dallas Cowboys are known as "America's Team" because they have fans all across the country, and sometimes unfortunately, that covers all different kinds of people.
One Cowboys fan is Las Vegas native Thomas Randolph, who - after being convicted of the first-degree murder of both his wife and the man he hired to kill her - wore a new Tony Romo jersey to his sentencing hearing on Friday.
Romo, I mean Randolph, is in court pic.twitter.com/YfZZ9OzbsG
— David Ferrara (@randompoker) June 30, 2017
He kept the tag on because otherwise the jersey would depreciate, obviously pic.twitter.com/TyiEo4OgfS
— David Ferrara (@randompoker) June 30, 2017
David Ferrara of the Las Vegas Review-Journal explains why Randolph wanted to wear the jersey, and how it worked against him in the hearing.
Chief Deputy District Attorney David Stanton told jurors that wearing the XXXL No. 9 Tony Romo blue and white jersey with blue jeans and white gym shoes showed that Randolph had no remorse for the deaths of his sixth wife, Sharon Causse or the man he hired to kill her, Michael James Miller.
“He doesn’t care about that at all. It doesn’t bother him a bit,” the prosecutor said. “Any rational compassionate human being would be appalled at themselves.”
Randolph said he wanted to wear the jersey, rather than a traditional shirt and tie, on his last day of trial because he would speak to jurors. He has been locked up since January 2009, wearing only jail clothing.
“Since I’ve been 12, I’ve been a Cowboys fan,” he told reporters in the holding cell. “It gives me comfort, even in here.”
Randolph is facing the death penalty, and a jury is expected to decide his fate on Wednesday. He can also be sentenced to a term of 20 to 50 years in prision, 20 years to life in prison or life in prison without the possibility of parole if the jury decides against the death penalty.
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