Recent content by Irene_Adler

My apologies in advance for the extreme length. Sorry to interrupt the very interesting K-9 sleuthing, but I thought this was really interesting. Thumbs up to Matou for bringing this up, and to GT&T for giving us some insight. I know that the law school offers a class called "Great Trials,"...

BBM For what it's worth, in the single class that I had with him, he looked nothing like glassy-eyed, completely detached person he's appeared to be during these hearings. Although I don't remember him ever speaking voluntarily or engaging in the discussion, I do remember him turning around...

It's so nice to come back from a brief hiatus and find this little gem. Thanks SS for such a great post! I watched the hearing live, and can attest to several brief interruptions in the streaming. I'm not sure if this was due to the nature of the live streaming, or whether they may have...

I think you might be misunderstanding what I was responding to. I wasn't making an observation as to the legal relevancy of the detective's opinions, but to the legitimacy of Buford's questions. You mentioned that Buford was more or less wasting our time with this particular line of questioning...

I understand what you mean. I was just addressing your comment as to the legitimacy of Buford's line of questioning, though. Even if the affidavit detailed malice murder, I would think that the detective's testimony during the commitment hearing that the affidavit was one for felony murder, the...

I respectfully disagree. I haven't had a chance to read the case law you quoted, but the quotation itself indicates (to me, at least) that the affidavit does need to sufficiently inform the accused of the specific charges against him. I think Buford was raising a legitimate challenge to the...

For what it's worth, around the same time Buford asked the detective about the gloves, he also asked about the search of McDaniel's apartment for "blue fibers." Based on his line of questioning, and considering their proximity to that storage closet with gardening tools, I was imagining the...

I'm fairly sure I heard laundry room, but the responses were difficult to hear at times. I'm sure one of the local media outlets will answer your question more affirmatively within the next couple of hours, though. ETA: Destini, I think Buford said: "...blue gloves, that appeared to have...

My thoughts exactly. The FBI has yet to return all the evidence, though, so there is still a very real possibility that they could obtain more evidence in the coming days. As someone who believes McDaniel was responsible for this, I certainly hope they're able to procure more evidence before the...

In my opinion, Buford did an excellent job questioning the detective. He introduced new evidence unknown to the detective and got the detective to describe the arrest warrant as one for "felony murder," while the affidavit contains no description of the underlying felony on the warrant.

Bad news: The detective was asked whether he had ANY other evidence from the FBI that would support the murder charge. Once Winters' objection was overruled, the detective answered "No."

In response to Buford's question, the detective declared that the warrant was a felony murder warrant. Buford then asked what the underlying felony was, and the detective could not/would not answer it. Winters objected, and said that the warrant was a "Murder 1" warrant, not necessarily a...

Well, I guess the defense IS introducing new evidence at the hearing. Per Buford: Blue gloves with bloodstains on them were found by their investigator in the laundry room last week. The detective was unaware of this recent discovery.

Snipped for focus and BBM First, let me start with this disclaimer: I AM NOT A CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY, nor have I ever even so much as touched a criminal case. I think I may not have made that clear enough in my first couple of posts. With that said, the observation about Buford's line of...

In light of the recent charges, I was reminded of an article I read last week in which the Telegraph quoted a GBI agent regarding the results of their search of his computer. In hindsight, I think the agent was being more literal than I would have ever guessed...