GW4 is charged with multiple counts and those counts need foundation and to be explained. Realistically for GW4 to get a fair trial it has to happen this way otherwise the jury would not have much to go on. I try to put myself in the juror's seat. I agree RB that not much has come out about GW4 but if the trial focused just on GW4 from the beginning and had no background info I would wonder. I think the way this is going chronologically day by day, scene by scene. victim by victim is the only way to do it They tell a story with all of the participants and locations. We just have to be patient. I think it is about to get interesting!
The problem is I feel like I am watching Jake's trial. The prosecution has barely mentioned George. I can almost count on one hand how many times George's name has been said in court, All the evidence, all the testimony is about Jake. AC has asked a couple of softball questions of the witnesses like have you ever seen George at Chris Sr's, did you see George at the fireworks display, which we don't even know why that is important, did you see George at the funeral, was he a friend of Frankies? That is it. From listening to the testimony from the R family I am getting the feeling that none of them knew George other than to say hello to if they saw him.
Cody M's testimony was distracting to say the least. All those facial expressions, mouthing things out toward the gallery, being openly hostile to the defense attorneys made his testimony seem trivial to me. Maybe not to others, but to me it did. It was very emotional, that is true, but the jury is not going to send a man to prison for life because they feel sorry for a witness who is nervous on the stand. Plus I felt he and some others are not telling the whole truth. He was Frankie's cousin and best friend, worked with him, visited him often, but yet claimed he never went to a chicken fight with him, and knew nothing about the MJ grows. That has been a reoccurring theme with a lot of the witnesses. The only two that were honest about the MJ was Luke and Kendra. I think it has to do with mistrust of LE. If it is illegal activity, admit nothing. I don't blame them after JM was arrested by BCI and charged with obstruction. Natural reaction not to trust LE not to use something you said under oath in a court of law against you. But in the end no real evidence against George and Cody finally ended up admitting he had seen him a couple of times, but never spoke to him. He really didn't have anything as far as evidence on Jake either since he did not even witness the argument April testified to.
Kendra witnessed one incident of abuse from Jake, April testified to an argument that ended up with Hannah claiming Jake chased her at high speeds, but did not witness him doing this. All of that is beside the point.
Jake pleaded guilty to all counts. Bringing in testimony of arguments, instances of abuse by Jake is damaging the states case against George as it is distracting the jury with little more than gossip.
Then there was Corey H. Very emotional testimony but very little substance. Once again what he said about Jake was hearsay, what Hannah had told him. No evidence against George at all, AC finally got him to admit he may have seen George with other family members at a Bday party once. All he added in the way of evidence for me is testifying to the actions of Hannah in the hours leading up to her death.
The state has no forensic evidence against George so far. I sat through crime scene testimony, ballistic testimony, shoe print evidence, DNA and fingerprint evidence and in the end not one of the BCI agents could put a gun in George's hand, put the shoe on his foot, or prove he was at the scenes or even in Ohio that night.
No one other than Jake and Angie said he was. I have my own theory about the deal Jake made and why he made it. The only real testimony against George in this case is Jake and Angie. Actually not even Angie since she cannot testify to what happened after they walked out the door, since both she and Jake has put on record she was not at the murder scenes. She cannot even testify to the shoes being worn by George since she went on record saying they never wore them, she threw them away because they didn't like them.
I feel like all this emotional testimony about how Jake abused Hannah is extremely damaging to the state's case against George. It is distracting the jury and in the end the jury is going to come out feeling that although there may be evidence against George's family there is not one shred of evidence against George himself that has been presented so far. As I said, the jury is not going to convict a man on guilt by family association. Especially not of 8 murders and a life sentence.
I sincerely hope we get to hear some real evidence against George soon.
JMO
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