The death of Mersulats mother didn't affect him the way it affected everyone else because Mersulats lacked the moral compass and was numb to everything around him. When Mersault was put on trail, court used his mothers death to understand where his mind was at which was a bad idea. It was a bad idea because no one is in the right state after the death of a loved one especially their mother. Despite his killing of another man bringing up his mental state of his mother would not make correlation. Killing someone is completely wrong and a punishment is needed. The moral statement he was making was that he didn't care, that he had no feeling, and he was heartless. That was the way it looked in court, and from his words he said it really made
