Thanks for doing all the digging on Jeff’s testimony. Here are more thoughts after re-watching all the portions of Jeff’s testimony that you timestamped. In the first two trials he says Wendi knew he was leaving on Friday at 11:00am and she was the only person he had told this to in Tallahassee. In the first police interview (days after the murder), he clearly stated he had vague plans to leave either Friday or Saturday. Further, he made statements during his police interview that he wasn’t being fully transparent with Wendi about any of the details of his plans to go – paraphrasing, he said he didn’t want her to know if he was going (love games?). I’m not sure how we started with “I had vague plans to leave on Friday or Saturday” AND LAND ON, “Wendi knew I was leaving at 11:00am on Friday”? Based on Jeff’s statements in his police interviews, I can believe she wasn’t sure that he was still going, but I’m not convinced she knew (if he decided to go) what his exact ‘scheduled’ departure day / time was. IMO, that is just not supported by what he said in his police interviews.
Obviously Wendi knew it was a weekend trip so it’s a logical to deduce that Wendi knew ‘IF’ Jeff went he’d most likely be leaving on Friday or Saturday. We can speculate all day long whether or not Wendi actually knew Jeff was ‘planning’ on leaving at 11:00am on Friday as per his testimony. To be fair, we can only weigh that analysis on Jeff various statements and at best, in my opinion, his statements supporting this are very contradictory. That’s just my objective take on this.
I see you’re getting hung up me stating Jeff took some ‘liberties’ so I’ll expand on that thought and perhaps ‘soften’ it up because I’m not trying to paint Jeff as a bad guy and I don’t think what I’m pointing out is perjury. I am trying to be responsible in my commentary and perhaps that a strong word BUT it’s my personal opinion that Jeff’s gut told him that Wendi was involved and he is trying to be ‘helpful’ and he was ‘subconsciously’ providing details that help fit the ‘Lacasse setup narrative’. That narrative, if proven true, is a sure Wendi conviction. Given this more thought, its probably more fitting to accuse the ‘state’ of taking liberties by walking Jeff down this path during his testimony. They knew what he had said in his police interviews, and they got him to play that hand by their strategic line of questioning specifically regarding the ‘timing’ of murder with his ‘scheduled’ departure time and the picture that painted.