He can't read... So she can't refresh his recollection via the taped interview? Have him watch and listen so the jury can't hear?
I think she can only do that (and let the jury hear his prior statement) if after he reads/hears it, he says he still doesn't remember it. He has to try to use his memory first. JMO.Why couldn't she just read out loud to him?
This cross isn't getting anywhere so far. JMO.
Jada E. Williams @JadaEWilliams 7m7 minutes ago
Rivera says on the way back to Miami, Garcia talked to Katherine Magbanua on the speaker phone. Garcia said it was done and Magbanua said "I already know." RIvera said she was loud enough to hear. #MarkelMurderTrialWTXL @abc27
Slightly off topic of Rivera——but I was wondering if anyone knows who was supposed to pick up the kids after preschool on Fri July 18?
I’ve seen it said that it would have been Wendi since Dan was going to NY. But not sure if Dan’s flight was set for later Fri or on Sat.
But Wendi testified she was supposed to go to that “stock the bar”party on Fri night, right? So I think Dan would be supposed to have the kids Fri evening?
This makes me a bit queasy, it's feels almost too convenient. It's crucial evidence suggesting CA informed KM in his call around 11:30, ie he had a spy or was monitoring a scanner, and it therefore links CA directly to the hit. (ETA, I accept that could be true). But it showing up this way as evidence seems tenuous, would Garcia really put the call on speaker phone?
LR turning on his brother like this is bad. He surely doesn't want Garcia to get the death penalty. I worry the cooperating witness was trying to be too cooperative.
I always wrongly assumed earlier in the case that SG was the badass after he was arrested first and because he was a big imposing guy compared to LR.He's probably the scariest 5'4 guy in the federal prison system
So far all I've learned is that Luis Rivera is a dead man walking because of doing the right thing.
I was quoting the reporter who tweeted "Garcia talked to Katherine Magbanua on the speaker phone." That strikes me as potentially a lie, there's no other circumstances when LR listens to Garcia's calls on speaker phone, and why would Garcia put it on speaker phone anyway?I'm not quite sure what you are saying, but he didn't say Katie was on speaker phone. He said he could hear her anyway because the windows were up in the car. I'm sure you have heard entire phone conversations someone else is having with a person on the other end if the the volume is up and the person is talking loudly enough.
I was quoting the reporter who tweeted "Garcia talked to Katherine Magbanua on the speaker phone." That strikes me as potentially a lie, there's no other circumstances when LR listens to Garcia's calls on speaker phone, and why would Garcia put it on speaker phone anyway?
It's a very important piece of evidence, because LR can claim he heard it directly, not imagined it from overhearing a personal call, and he isn't reporting it as hearsay from Garcia.
In general, if defence can introduce doubt about a witness's veracity in any detail, the whole of that witnesses' testimony will lose value.