It’s my opinion that Cicero was brought on by the state mainly to support the motion in limine. The MIL was filed in April, which is when Cicero said he began work. The state likely saw that after repeated Franks motions full of half truths and misleading statements that the defense would not be reasonable and they would need to ask the court to specifically restrict certain talking points. A key step towards discrediting the defense’s theory was getting the “rune” on the tree debunked. That’s what Cicero was for. It’s less that they rushed to get something done because they felt exposed, they were probably just tired of having to wade through the ridiculous theories, speculation, and misstatements and decided to just make the defense put their money where their mouths were, so to speak.
All my opinion.
This is where I agree with Scott Reisch that the defence had the wrong strategy with Franks and then at the motion in limine hearing. They should have kept this stuff as a cross examination strategy to create doubt.
Instead Cicero killed them on the tree mark and the blood pooling and they didn't have their own competing expert.
It seems like a major error, unless they never intended this to be a trial strategy?
My only other explanation is they 100% an alt who looks like Bridge Guy
MOO