Probably any competent attorney would look to see if the prosecutor would take life or life without parole in lieu of the death penalty case--but that would depend on how strong the prosecutions case is, which the defense will learn in the discovery process.
Why does this make me so mad?
I'm still not convinced she would ever even be called at trial. Her description for the PCA was sufficient to show that someone similar looking to BK was in the apartment at the time. Now that BK is under arrest, they can (hopefully) collect more evidence to more conclusively show who it was in the apartment, and they will not need to call someone to testify that they saw someone they didn't know who could have been him. MOO
What the warrants says they can look for is different from what they find. If they are looking for evidence of blood, they may find it in a drain or on a t-shirt. So they would take the content or swabs of the drain or take the t-shirt. The warrant doesn't have to say "drain" or "t-shirt."
Well if Marshall’s is good for anything, it’s for its abundance of sheets and towels. Lol
If I'm the defense attorney, she's first on my list.
I think the girls offended him in some way that humiliated him. Maybe Ethan stood up to him and kept him away from harassing the girls. I can see him becoming a target in that way. When I read police removed stained mattress covers from bk's Pullman apt, my first thought was by the time he got home after the murders, he was exhausted, felt safe, and may have still had some blood on him when he went to bed.
It was discussed in the last few threads that her account is essentially hearsay if she does not testify (I just learned this myself) so prosecution will want her to speak. Certainly the defense would call her to try to poke holes in her story
You explain these matters clearly; what's your opinion on swabs say in drains and plugs at the BK residence. There's nothing like that on the Return Service Doc. In your opinion does that indicate that swabs were not taken or would something like that not necessarily be included in Service Return Doc? I noticed that hairs were there so kinda assume swabs would be too. Perhaps it was deemed too late (six weeks after crime) to take swabs? Or perhaps they were done and tested on the spot and nothing was found?
I do think it could come up at the preliminary hearing in June if they decide to contest the validity of the arrest (if I'm understanding what a preliminary hearing is correctly). But I don't think it would necessarily help if it goes to trial. As an example, let's say they end up finding BKs DNA in other surfaces of the apartment. It wouldn't really matter if DM got a good look at the intruder or not, DNA evidence puts him there. So they wouldn't have a reason to even call her to testify. The defense could, but in this example I am putting out, poking holes in weak eyewitness testimony isn't going to overcome DNA evidence. IMO
Let’s hope it’s blood, yes.
I was surprised at the amount of people who said they do this all the time. I’ve never put my trash in a neighbor’s bin, and it initially struck me as suspicious that he did so.
I pray to God the human hair that was found was from the victims. Blood is very sticky. it's logical that during his "work" strands of hair would have clung to the blood. In the dark, he would not have noticed. Animal hair? If he wanted to work in silence, I think his first act/s would have had to have been to the throats of his victims. to disable airways, speech etc. I can see him grabbing each by their hair for leverage as he committed the murder. I think the prosecution's best hope will come from that apt.
It’s also upsetting that something providential didn’t happen, such as a cop noticing the circling and pulling him over.
