I wonder if the defense att'ys really believe their own story, that Lana committed suicide???? I think they are banking that because of reasonable doubt, the Jury won't be able to find him guilty of Murder 2.

Neither the defense or the prosecution wanted the lesser charge of Manslaughter included, because the Jury might have gone for that. I honestly think that they should have allowed the Jury to choose manslaughter over murder 2. He was drunk as a skunk and not in his right mind.