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It depends on how close the parking lot is to the building I guess. If people are going out to smoke they don't generally go back to their cars unless their car is really close, they go just far enough away from the doors to be in compliance.

Thanks for that. Here's the thing though, you, actually any of us, shouldn't have to keep explaining how a forum - exchange of ideas and opinions - works for those who are being deliberately obtuse, those who either can't or won't understand that they don't get to tell others how they should...

Great post! Wow. Wish I'd said all that!! Just want to clarify a couple of things though, a couple of reasons my sympathies do not go to this mother in particular. One is because of an impression I get that rather than discipline her children she'll go out of her way to appease them to avoid...

I never said the defense wasn't given the video prior to the hearing - I have NO idea what the defense was or was not given - I only said the hearing is NOT a trial and the prosecution only has to demonstrate enough for probable cause. Whether or not they are obliged to disclose what they have...

I honestly don't understand where you are getting that this man is being treated unfairly. They aren't just going ahead giving him the needle, they are following due process, he is still presumed to be innocent, he is entitled to a defense and he's got defense counsel, he's entitled to a trial...

No, once again, this was not a trial. He used those statements along with all the other evidence presented to determine if the prosecution had probable cause for the arrest and enough evidence for them to present the case to the Grand Jury. This is not some random guy they pulled in off the...

She could have been the parent and told her son NO at any point: NO You can't come to the store. Once at the store NO you can't stay in the car. NO headphones if you insist on staying in the car. This wasn't a dire emergency run to a pharmacy for some necessary medication, there was no exigent...

I agree. My hope is that the prosecution sticks to hammering on the visuals and on the bare bones facts over and over: he googled 'hot car deaths' 5 days previously, took no preventative measures, claims to have forgotten his son in the space of time between strapping him in at Chik-Fil-A and...

The hearing wasn't a trial, the prosecution only had to provide enough for probable cause. At trial the defense would be lax, I agree, if they didn't bring out during in depth questioning an 'innocent' context surrounding that phrase - IF there were an 'innocent' context that is.

I can...sort of playing devil's advocate. I've noted that he seems to have a tendency to 'say too much', over-explain, embellish and maybe he has a short fuse when his judgment or veracity is questioned. This would be a trait of his she would be familiar with. We know from the cops he said stuff...

Maybe he isn't consciously exaggerating, embellishing his story and trying to make himself out to be far more important in the situation than he actually was but that is what worries me. The fact that he's all over the media with his enhanced/slanted account of events makes him dangerous on the...

I get what you're saying Judy but academic smarts doesn't always equate to common sense smarts - in fact some of the smartest (intellectual) people I know are also often among the dumbest people I know too.

I think they just arrogantly assumed that the authorities would never question that it was an accident. I don't know anyone naive enough to believe that they can hide electronic footprints from LE these days short of destroying the device or that we aren't surrounded by security cameras and...

Totally agree. "I'm numb." "I'm dazed." Phrases I've heard used by those in shock - never heard anyone say "I'm in shock" - the realisation that the numbness or dazed feeling was shock only hits later.

I agree, I don't think religion plays any part in this. There have been cases of mentally-unstable, fanatical, deluded people who have killed or harmed their children for religious reasons - demonic possessions, sacrifices, honour killings, mercy killings because they think the child will be...

The baby was already dead at that point, the abrasions were not post-mortem as far as I understand what was said in court.

I was voting on Felony murder which is what he is charged with and I think they have already provided sufficient 'beyond a reasonable doubt' evidence. I think the charges as they stand are brilliant since there is no need for the Prosecution to prove intent. I'll admit I'd have very little...

You're right, I'm sure they have more to show, all they needed to show at the hearing was enough for probable cause and enough to get bond denied. That said, they did know where he was parked, they have the video from the security cameras showing how he reversed in.

He wasn't sexting when he googled hot car deaths. He wasn't seating when he took the 'wrong' lane 30 seconds after leaving Chikfila. He wasn't sexting when he went back to car at lunch. The sexting to me is irrelevant other than to highlight another lowlife aspect of this lowlife father.

Yes and I foresee the DA using visual aids such as a mock up of the vehicle complete with car seat and model of a child Cooper's size and age - I think that would make for a very compelling image for a jury.