FL - Sarah Boone, 42, charged with murdering boyfriend Jorge Torres, 42, by leaving him locked in suitcase, Winter Park, Feb 2020

[arielilane]

ORLANDO, Fla. (Court TV) — Sarah Boone‘s sixth, seventh and eighth attorneys appeared before a judge and described the difficult conditions they endured as they asked to be paid for their work.

Attorney Winston Hobson appears virtually during a court hearing regarding fees for Sarah Boone’s murder case. (Court TV)
Like Charles Dickens’ spirits that came to haunt Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Frank Bankowitz, Winston Hobson and Patricia Cashman all told a judge about the extreme amount of work they did, describing it as “taxing every fiber of our bodies.”

Attorneys seeking payment describe 'constant battle' with Sarah Boone

Sarah Boone's sixth, seventh and eighth attorneys described working with her as 'taxing every fiber of our bodies.'

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Boone’s trial is scheduled to begin on Oct. 7. She has a final pretrial hearing on Sept. 26.

 

[arielilane]

The September 26, 2024 pretrial case management hearing is scheduled for 9:00 am ET.

Also, from above linked article:

Judge Lisa Munyon awarded Cashman and Bankowitz a $15,000 flat fee. Hobson was awarded $15,000 in hourly fees.

 

[Izzylizzy]

Live now.

 

[Chimera]

I'm not going to link it here, because it's incredibly sick and disturbing, but Law and Crime has the actual video from SB's cell phone on their YouTube channel. I don't know why I watched even part of it. I feel sick now.

Bbm.
Agreed !
I'm aware there's footage.
Not going to watch.
Hope this sadistic monster gets the max. punishment.
Omo.

 

[sasha17]

I don't see anything in the Orange County court records (yet?) about a change in date for the case management hearing on 9/26, but the defense just filed a motion related to that stating:

"The above matter was originally scheduled for Trial Management Conference (TMC) on Thursday, September 26, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. (ET), before Honorable Michael Kraynick, in Orlando, Florida; however, due the impending hurricane, said TMC has been rescheduled to Friday, September 27, 2024, at 2:00 pm."

It sounds like the case management hearing must have been rescheduled and the defense attorneys became aware of that before anything has changed on the Orange County court records website.

In light of that, the defense "request this Court to grant a Zoom appearance by counsel, James Owens, and co-counsel Kevin Beck and Tony Henderson at the Trial Management Conference scheduled for Friday, September 27, 2024."

The judge filed an order granting their motion to appear via Zoom. Sounds like Sarah will be sitting alone at the defense table on Friday.

Orange County Clerk of Courts Records Search

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1839290520692208040

 

[arielilane]

Sarah Boone’s Former Attorneys Demand to Be Paid for Working With ‘Difficult’ Client​

Several former attorneys for accused killer Sarah Boone filed a motion with the court asking to be paid for their time representing their “difficult” client. Boone went through nearly a dozen attorneys before representing herself for the murder of her boyfriend, Jorge Torres. The judge awarded about $45,000 in costs to three of her previous attorneys. Boone has since hired another defense team to represent her in trial.

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1839733044263170416

 

[arielilane]

Defense says he's doing the best he can to be ready for trial.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1839735608752910579

 

[arielilane]

Oct 7 jury selection - Judge will bring in 50 jurors in the morning. He will ask about the hardships of serve on a jury for 3 weeks, he'll bring in 50 more at 1:30 pm and once he has 40 jurors that can serve for the 3 weeks, they will choose the jury from those 40. #SarahBoone court adjourned for today.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1839737217973137678

 

[cujenn81]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1839733044263170416

She gives me the creeps.

 

[sasha17]

My observations/notes from today's case management hearing, which has terrible audio:

The state needs to complete depositions with the defense's three expert witnesses before trial starts. The deposition with Dr. Harper will be on October 1. Dr. Berkland will actually not be a testifying witness and is only providing advice to the defense. As such, no deposition is necessary.

The state hasn't been able to get in touch with Dr. Brannon to complete a deposition. Defense attorney Owens says he'll contact Dr. Brannon to get this scheduled with the state. The judge says the deposition to be complete on or before October 3. Otherwise, another hearing will be set to handle what to do with Dr. Brannon. The state still wants a written report from Dr. Brannon prior to the deposition so the state knows what to ask him about and doesn't have to conduct a "fishing expedition" at the deposition.

The state's psychiatric expert will be evaluating Sarah on October 2.

The judge says he has the defense's filed witness list and the motion to suppress the interrogation video. The state also filed a response to this and in their response, mentioned a second motion to suppress. The judge doesn't see a second motion to suppress and asked the state to explain what they're referring to. The state says: "Judge, they filed a notice of objections to the state's evidence late last night. Contained within that objection to the state's evidence was basically an unfiled, legally insufficient motion to suppress statements based on a statement made to a patrol deputy prior to the first statement to the detectives in an unmarked patrol car on February 24, 2020."

The judge and Owens go back and forth about what was filed. The judge calls out Owens and says his motion to suppress the two hour interrogation video with the detectives is about an entirely different situation than the statements made to the patrol deputy. Owens agrees and fumbles around and brings up his time constraints and says he'll figure out what he wants to file motions about next Monday. The judge says if he wants to file a motion to suppress some statements or video, he has until 11:59pm tonight to file it.

There will be a hearing on October 2 at 3pm to handle the defense's already filed motion to suppress the two hour interrogation video. The judge says he'll also handle the motion the defense filed earlier today which says "defendant would like access to professional hair styling, cosmetics, and civilian clothing without restraints."

With time running out, chaotic Sarah Boone hearing grinds to halt

A chaotic motions hearing featured Sarah Boone's attorney yelling 'Judge!' when technology problems brought things to a halt.

www.courttv.com

 

[sasha17]

The state's response to the defense's motion to suppress evidence is good reading, IMO. The state rips into Owens here:

"The Defendant’s motion is legally insufficient. The Defendant recites allegations of facts, but not why any particular fact, or facts, is an issue. “The reasons for suppression,” as required by Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.190(h)(2) is a boilerplate assertion that it violated the United States Constitution and the Florida Constitution... The Defendant has not cited even a single case that authorizes the Court to grant her the relief she is requesting. The State is left in the dark about what specific issue or issues the Defendant is claiming and what legal authority there might be for the Court to grant the relief she requests... Interestingly, the Defendant’s believe that this creates some sort of legal impediment to the admissibility of her two-hour statement that day is not backed up by a single citation to any legal authority within or without the State of Florida’s court system."

Orange County Clerk of Courts Records Search

 

[Kakidoll]

I think this attorney is a perfect fit for Ms Boone after watching the video. LOL