Hey all - I haven't read anything here since Friday - so if I'm repeating stuff already discussed, so sorry; I've got about 30 posts to read...
But wanted to just make a few comments, if I may, on this testimony by EX-GF - (bold and red just to emphasize my words...) snipped from:
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/21/sierra-lamar-accused-killers-ex-girlfriend-testifies/
I got this on my Google Alert this morning...
The former girlfriend {....} resumed testifying Tuesday, telling jurors she couldn’t recall whether he was with her the morning five years ago when the girl disappeared.
Altogether, the ex-girlfriend, Frances Sarmiento, said “I don’t remember,” “I’m not sure” or “I don’t know” more than two dozen times Tuesday morning — in response to the question of where Garcia-Torres was on March 16, 2012, and nearly every other inquiry.
While Sarmiento wasn’t exactly a hostile witness for the prosecution in the capital murder trial, the mother of Garcia-Torres’ two children took care not to incriminate him. On the other hand, she didn’t go out of her way to provide him with an alibi or otherwise actively support his defense.
Okay - now
IF your boyfriend/husband was arrested two months after a murder in your area - would you
NOT rack your brains to remember or even
TRY to remember where the heck he was?? I believe I would. Glad to hear though that her testimony did
NOT help his alibi.
and this:
Garcia-Torres has pleaded not guilty. If he is convicted, he could be sentenced either to death or life in prison without parole. However, if he is acquitted, he cannot be tried again, even if Sierra’s body is found or other evidence surfaces.
I know this is called double jeopardy - but I truly don't understand that
IF new evidence surfaces - why they can't re-try him; because it
IS "new" evidence they did not have before. Anyway..... :dunno:
okay - further reading the article:
Sarmiento testified Tuesday that she did laundry at her mother’s house the Friday morning that Sierra vanished, after Garcia-Torres dropped her off there.
{....} But prosecutor David Boyd emphasized that she had never told Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputies during their investigation that Garcia-Torres was with her that morning. She also told the grand jury that indicted him that she didn’t remember whether he was with her. In addition, a video camera posted at the trailer park where the couple lived with Garcia-Torres’ mother shows Garcia-Torres leaving alone in his red Volkswagen Jetta early that morning and not returning until later in the day.
Well - there you go - at least she remembers she was doing laundry! Obviously the camera shows he was NOT with you when you were doing laundry....
and I don't want to go over the 10% allowed here - re folding clothes. IF Sierra's clothes were folded and rolled as she described how HE would to it.... well... use your
common sense jurors!!
:judge:
