It was sickening listening to Marty gush about how Cole is a good person and how she has to take responsibility for his crime so he can stay with his daughter because this is his third felony and he'll go to prison. Maybe if she'd taken responsibility for her violent, out of control, sociopathic son sooner, he wouldn't have three felonies - two murder attempts, assaults, drug charges, and so forth and the kid isn't even 20 yet. What does that say for her? She repeatedly turned a blind eye to Cole's violence and his inability to control his temper and his lack of remorse for his crimes. Mere days after he came so close to murdering a man who had his back turned, he was threatening to do the same thing to another. Marty had the DA and a police detective covering for Cole and helping him get away with his crimes. Cole is not a good person. His lack of remorse shows how disturbed he really is, and Marty couldn't be bothered to see the truth and now Cole has finally succeeded in murdering someone. Third time's the charm, I guess.
I can't wait until John and Nora learn the truth about who murdered Eli. I'm sure Nora will try and argue it down and say Eli was trying to commit suicide and that Cole isn't responsible because Eli jumped in front of his gun.