With the recent (and third, I might add) trial and subsequent conviction of Peter Wlasiuk finally behind me, I decided it was time to weigh-in with my own, personal feelings on the experience. Throughout the month-long ordeal – which found me spending the majority of my time at the Chenango County Courthouse, covering the trial – I avoided, at all costs, offering any kind of opinion, be it here in my weekly column, on my Evening Sun blog ... even on Twitter or Facebook.

What can I say? I tried my very best to remain as unbiased as possible in regards to Mr. Wlasiuk, originally accused of killing his wife, Patricia, in 2002. To make a long story short (as if you don’t know already), it was alleged at that time that Peter killed his wife at their Oxford home, loaded her body into the bed of his 1998 GMC pick-up truck, and drove said truck into Guilford Lake in an attempt to hide the crime (I only wrote that sentence 275 times over the past month). And as I said, this was his third trial, having successfully appealed his two previous convictions.

I hate to say it, but it doesn’t say much for our judicial system when a man who’s so obviously guilty gets ... not one ... but three trials for killing his wife. Because he is guilty; the jury got it right ... once again.