rabidstoat
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What's the current estimate for how long the trial will run?
I wonder why they keep making the point about traffic.
I wonder why they keep making the point about traffic.
The defense is trying to lengthen the time from CFA to the intersection in every way they can, including traffic, as well as casting doubt on the reliability of the timestamps on CFA's videos.
http://www.fox19.com/story/33361025/justin-ross-harris-trial-resumes-in-glynn-countyWhat's the current estimate for how long the trial will run?
Next witness- James Ferrell, captain with police dept.
Wild About Trial ‏@WildAboutTrial 43s44 seconds ago
Ferrell got in touch with multiple detectives to respond to the scene.
Jen's Trial Diaries ‏@TrialDiariesJ 1m1 minute ago
The fact this call had 2 do w/ a child the Captain had a detective trained in the field of children respond 2 scene.
Jen's Trial Diaries ‏@TrialDiariesJ 1m1 minute ago
The Captain wrote a supplemental to his report a year later when the case was being put together.
Ross Harris Trial ‏@HarrisTrialFOX5 56s57 seconds ago
Ferrel says that there was an odor in the car. Describes it smelling like a child's diaper, and the distinct smell of death, inside the car.
Jen's Trial Diaries ‏@TrialDiariesJ 52s53 seconds ago
Medical examiner was communicating with the Captain while he was compiling his report
Yet Cooper was covered up by sheet when Ferrell allegedly smelled the diaper smell (not a dirty diaper smell he said) sweat and odor of death. :thinking: no one else has noted this.
IMO the defense is making a strong case that LE mishandled the initial "crime" scene; for possible collusion (for lack of a more neutral term) between responding/reporting LE; for an unsupported assumption from the get go of RH's guilt, and that witness accounts seem to have been tailored after the fact to support LE's assertions about RH's behavior.
If LE's conduct was the subject of this trial, imo an impartial jury would be hung or would vote to convict. Sadly for RH, no matter how successfully the defense destroys LE's credibility (if it does), this isn't a whodunnit or any other kind of case in which LE's conduct is integral to disproving (at least) some of the charges against RH.
What the defense must understandably be most concerned about refuting is the State's charge of malice murder, and imo, impeaching LE's narrative about RH's behavior, etc. contributes to that goal.
That said, nothing LE did or said changes the indisputable fact that Ross Harris is responsible for leaving Cooper, his barely a toddler son, in a hot car for 7 hours, to die a terrible death. IMO, the felony charge of 2nd degree cruelty to children is unaffected by anything the defense has or can do to destroy the credibility of LE.
Smells like that don't just disappear after the deceased is removed.
I agree. At this point, it seems they aren't even defending that charge. It appears their strategy is to refute the premeditated murder charge. IMO
The trial is just getting going, and the defense hasn't had their turn yet. I imagine they'll address the 2nd degree charges through the testimony of their memory experts.
I would tend to agree, just that no one else has noted that (or in their orig reporting)