In the beginning of any case, it is the judges responsibility to determine if the circumstantial evidence presented is enough to allow the Prosecution to take this matter to trial. It is then the duty of the judge to inform the Defendant of their rights and to offer a plea or take it to trial if it is a reasonable case. In the case of Peggy Hettrick, the circumstantial evidence included the defendant seeing, but not reporting Ms. Hettrick’s body on his way to school (Joshua Yager, 2011). Masters footprints were located at the scene of the crime, indicating that he was at the scene of the crime. Upon police investigation, drawings of weapons, female genitalia that had been mutilated in the same manner as Hettrick, and another of a person being
