NV - Jeff German, 69, investigative reporter, stabbed to death, Las Vegas, Sept 2022 *arrest*

[arielilane]

German makes public records request about communications btwn Telles & Roberta Lee-Kennett.

8/8/22: county spokesperson notifies him German’s request will start to be fulfilled.

Hamner: Four days later, in your phone, Google maps by German’s home start popping up.

Hamner: By 8/8, how are you feeling about Jeff German’s upcoming article?

Telles: I don’t recall.

Now a break.

@Vanessa_Murphy

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1826744889411011029

 

[arielilane]

@Vanessa_Murphy

I believe jury will be sent home at 4 or 4:15pm.


6:36 PM · Aug 22, 2024 from Las Vegas, NV

 

[arielilane]

Back in session.

Telles messages to employee who was “Team Telles,” refers to “lies” in German’s articles.

Messages are from after he lost primary.

He tells her she’s his best employee.

This is the employee who was a witness for the defense.


Telles admits the articles were damaging.

Tells employee he is worried that the articles may follow him for years to come in this digital age.

Worried he may not have any good employment prospects.

Hamner says what follows are searches of German’s home, info, etc..


9/1/22: 5:45: Telles is notified German will receive messages about communications between Telles & Roberta Lee-Kennett.

Hamner: just a few hours later, German is dead, right?

Telles: yes.


@Vanessa_Murphy

 

[arielilane]

Hamner turns to 9/2/22, the day of Jeff German’s murder.

Telles says he took his brown BMW to the gym.

Hamner asks him what role Det. Jappe played in the framing.

Telles claims there is discrepancy with surveillance logs & Jappe knows he didn’t kill German.


Hamner asks why Jappe would clear Telles of wrongdoing in the bribes investigation…

Telles claims Jappe didn’t do full investigation into his concerns.

Telles said attorney general investigated for a month & didn’t do anything.Hamner says Jappe looked into it for 11 months.

@Vanessa_Murphy

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1826758110888988934

 

[arielilane]

@Vanessa_Murphy

Message from wife’s Apple Watch:“Where are you?”

Hamner asks if that message was on his phone.

Telles: From what you showed me, it is not.

Telles claimed earlier that he was home. Saying now he was on walk

10:30am: video of car that looks like his in German’s neighborhood.


7:09 PM · Aug 22, 2024 from Las Vegas, NV

 

[arielilane]

@Vanessa_Murphy

Hamner: no further questions. Jury to be sent home.


7:10 PM · Aug 22, 2024 from Las Vegas, NV

 

[arielilane]

Recess until 9:30 am PT (12:30 pm ET) tomorrow.

 

[pseudo_hum]

I give Telles an 'A' for effort, and a 'G' for GUILTY.

 

[geevee]

Holy moly that cross was so good, and the last about his wife's text asking where he was, and it not being on his phone (or on his wife's, according to Telles [and I wonder how he knew it wasn't on his wife's phone??]) was excellent. Can't wait to hear the jury questions after all that!

 

[trialobsessive]

It will be fascinating to see what RT's attorney does with him today!

 

[Tortoise]

@cathyrusson

#RobertTelles crying over pictures of his messy house following the search warrant.........

https://twitter.com/x/status/1826686511540306413

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2:22 PM · Aug 22, 2024

What a weird thing to bring him to tears so long after the event. It happened in the serial killer nurse Lucy Letby's trial last year too, when they showed photos of her messy bedroom after the police had searched it upon her arrest five years earlier. How does one get so emotional over a mess that has long since been tidied up?

I would say, in both these cases, they worked out in the intervening period that it would guarantee tears (and they're not emotional about anything else) and that is why it was part of the defence case, because it sure doesn't have anything to do with disproving guilt of the crimes they were accused of. A prop to try to elicit sympathy from jurors for the defendant. It serves to show that they only cry for themselves and not their murdered victims, but I am amazed that a messy house is enough to make them cry so long after. Is that narcissism at work I wonder? Or is it the memories of feeling I messed up, that is the moment they caught me?


Some quotes below from the Lucy Letby trial reporting:

Direct examination:

The court is shown a photo of her bedroom looking very tidy, with cuddly toys on the bed, including Winnie-the-Pooh and Eeyore. The duvet cover reads "sweet dreams". The court is told it was straightened up and tidied by her dad, after she was arrested.

The court now sees a photo of the same room - Lucy Letby's bedroom - immediately after she was arrested and the police had been in. Everything is in disarray.

Letby is crying as she sees the photos of her room.

She is asked for the names of her two cats. She is crying as she replies "Tigger and Smudge".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-65431833

Cross-examination:

Nick Johnson KC, for the prosecution, has now begun his cross-examination of Lucy Letby.

"Ms Letby, is there any reason why you cry when you talk about yourself but don't cry when you talk about seriously injured children?" he asks the defendant.

Lucy Letby trial: Facebook searches of nurse accused of murdering babies read out in court

MOO

 

[Tortoise]

It will be fascinating to see what RT's attorney does with him today!

Will he be able to do re-examination if he didn't get involved with direct?

I was thinking RT will be by himself again.

Such a cocky [whatsit].

 

[trialobsessive]

Will he be able to do re-examination if he didn't get involved with direct?

I was thinking RT will be by himself again.

Such a cocky [whatsit].

I think he is allowed to but somebody who is better informed than me will be able to tell us for sure.

It seems the narrative testimony happened because RT's attorneys knew he was going to lie on his testimony or was this because RT is such a cocky, pigheaded egomaniac? Bit of both probably.

 

[Tortoise]

Makes me wonder if he's going to do his own closing arguments too. How can a lawyer not partake in his giving of evidence due to ethical considerations (if that was the reason) but then deliver a closing argument based upon his testimony? Hmm. It will be interesting to see what happens. I think these will be the shortest jury deliberations ever. MOO