This comes after Bhatt gave a bombshell testimony, in Virginia , on Thursday, telling jurors that he dismembered his wife’s body after finding her dead. Naresh Bhatt could either be found guilty of first-degree murder or could be acquitted, a legal expert has opined. Bhatt stands accused of killing his wife, Mamta Kafle Bhatt .
It has now been reported that after attorneys met the judge on Friday, it was decided that they would offer a waterfall instruction down to second-degree murder, but not manslaughter.
What lawyer said about Naresh Bhatt’s case
Mamta, a young mother and nurse, had vanished over two years ago from her home in Manassas Park. Three weeks later, cops arrested Naresh Bhatt and charged him with first degree murder, concealment of a dead body, and defiling a dead body. The legal expert, however, felt that it was unlikely the jury would find Bhatt guilty of second-degree murder. The lawyer also explained what a waterfall instruction means. One starts with the highest defense and it decreases.
In Bhatt’s case, the judge has said that even if there is no malice, as defined under Virginia law, he can still be found guilty on the second-degree charge.
