Posted 3/10/2008 05:26:00 PM by Douglas

I've been staying away from the story of the guy in Galveston that put his baby in the microwave, but I made the mistake of reading this story, and I think I threw up in my mouth a little bit. Turns out, the pre-trial motions don't center on the guy putting his baby in a hotel microwave, but rather whether or not the fact that he had sex with the mother of the microwaved baby, in the Galveston County Jail interrogation room, is pertinent to the trial:

A jury should not hear an allegation about sex in an interrogation room that occurred following the arrest of a man accused of burning his 2-month-old daughter in a microwave oven, a defense attorney argued today.

Prosecutors say witnesses saw Joshua Mauldin, 20, of Warren, Ark., have sex with his wife in an interrogation room at the Galveston County Jail several days after he was accused of placing his daughter in a microwave oven for 10 to 20 seconds on May 10 last year.

"This is just another attempt to demonize him," Cammack said outside the courtroom. Assistant District Attorney Xochitl Vandiver said jurors should know about the alleged sexual encounter between Mauldin and his wife, Eva Marie Mauldin, because it reflected his state of mind. "That piece of information is relevant to the defendant's guilt," Vandiver said.

I'll admit I'm a simple man, but a guy that's looking at a long time in a Texas prison having sex with his wife in the jail doesn't really go to "demonize" him more than say, oh, I don't know, putting his own baby in a motel microwave. Maybe it's just me. But here's where I threw up a little bit:

Cammack denied that alleged sex act occurred and said a DNA test of the chair in the interrogation room tested positive for someone other than Mauldin or his wife.

There's enough love pudding on a jail room chair to actually test?!? Not only that, but it didn't belong to either of the two people you saw doing the Vertical Act of Love™?!? Just how much baby batter is laying around the interrogation room at the Galveston County Jail than you can't 'nail' this down?