Nicole’s February 2 tweets. BBM
Will be attending and live tweeting
#leteciastauch hearing at 1:30. Latest mental evaluation should have been completed. Motions to waive jury trial and move venue outstanding. Jury selection set for March 20th, logistics need to be discussed along with media restrictions.
COURT: Letecia is present in the court room.
Judge asked why they haven't gotten sanity evaluation report. Defense saying he will tell expert doctor they will need the report submitted by February 13th.
Defense's expert needs some testing data from the state hospital.
Judge says he needs everything by February 13th.
Judge: biggest thing he needs to get a handle on at this time - how long presentation of evidence is going to take. He said prosecution has witness list with people from all over the place.
DA Allen says it really depends on what Letecia's second evaluation report says. Could need six weeks to present evidence in trial. Depending on what this report says, they may need to bring in more people to rebut.
Judge says it's a "logistical chess match" needs to figure out how long it's going to take to try the case and, based on that, need to pick a start date thinking of how long it's going to take to find a jury.
Judge says if they go six weeks and it takes a couple of weeks to get a jury, we are looking at around Easter, Graduations, Memorial Day to schedule around with jury. He calls these logistical issues.
For jury selection, judge says he's hoping to bring in 75 jurors a day until they have a pool of 110. At this point, in light of a six week jury trial, he would likely have six alternates. So, 12 jurors and 6 alternates for the trial.
Judge says there will be no trial on Thursdays. There will be no trial on Friday, May 12th too. Two press members will be allowed in court room for Jury selection.
Plan is to live stream the proceedings. Once we get to trial, media will be able to record stream. Jury selection will be audio only.
Judge addressing how potential jurors may already know about this case with major new coverage of Gannon's death. He says exposure to publicity is not a basis to remove the juror. It doesn’t matter what they’ve seen or heard as long as they can put that aside, focus on the facts.
Judge thinks the biggest concerns potential jurors will be impacted by is how long this case will be (six weeks potentially) and the age of the victim, Gannon.
Defense is bringing up the concern that some potential jurors will have issue about Letecia's not guilty by reason of insanity plea. Asking that jurors be instructed that if she is found not guilty by reason of insanity, she won't be "getting off."
"While there may be publicity they've been exposed to, I have faith in our potential jurors." He brings up past major cases in Colorado like the Mark Redwine trial.
Judge thinks it will probably take two weeks to get a jury together. They start March 20th. Judge saying we won't start evidence before April 3rd.
