Recent content by Mulegirl

That's so horrible. We had a 700 acre ranch (the "small ranch down the road" to the locals), but if someone wanted to conduct a search on it for a MP, I'd have given permission in a nanosecond!! So would my ex! What is wrong with people? How very sad.

I still have to catch up on this case (been wrapped up in CA trial since I was raised in Orlando), but just have to add that the ranch my ex and I owned was up in the area of Abilene, and there are parts of the area near CC that are vast stretches of arid cattle ranches. It could take almost...

Wow. Thanks for this info. I KNEW something had happened when I went to Paleface Grocery right on Pace Bend Rd. the evening they discovered her body, but on the local news I watched that night they didn't mention this. :-( The evening they found her, I heard sirens like I've never heard...

I haven't even begun to finish reading this thread, but I'm so, so grateful to hear that I'm not alone in my experiences. I had become so used to getting up, turning on InSession, logging in here, and settling in for the day. Even though towards the end there I couldn't get WS to load, and...

Logicalgirl -- I so very often admire your posts (well thought out and eloquently expressing my own views so often). But this has to be one of your BEST. Thank you for starting this!! I have to say that, in the days following the verdict, I kept going to the WFTV site looking for any...

I must first apologize if this has been specifically asked before. I did spot one poster who kind of skirted my question, but didn't ask directly the same thing. Like many here, I'm more upset by the jurors' seeming lack of understanding of their role and the laws related to deliberation...

Thank you! This is such a well-reasoned and well-written article. Definitely worth reading. Wow -- well-reasoned, what a concept. :crazy:

FABULOUS post. Just wanted to add that another down side to the internet (and the technology-spurred nanosecond attention span of so many Americans now) has also exacerbated the ability to separate fact from fiction. Think "I read it on the internet, it must be true." The ability to discern...

I know I feel the same way you do. I'm exhausted with mulling this and my anger and frustration, yet I can't stop thinking about it. I try to watch something else to distract me, and either I fall asleep (exhaustion!) or something reminds me of something in the trial, and I'm right back...

In reading through here, something dawned on me. Particularly in reading Chewy's comments and the ensuing discussions. THIS is what deliberations should have been. While we cannot know for sure what went on in that jury room, it certainly seems more than plausible that those jurors did...

I've been trying to remember something about California higher ed. When I went to college there not that many years ago (as a returning adult) I took a critical thinking class. I'm kind of thinking it was a part of the Calif. core curriculum. At least I hope it is. This is making clear to me...

Actually, it does not matter for the same reasons that JB's absurd explanation doesn't matter. OS and CS are not evidence, they are meant only to provide a jury with potential ways of looking at what evidence is or is not provided during the trial. MOO.

IIRC, Ashton covers this in the Dateline (but I've seen so many post-verdict shows I could be wrong about this being the one). He said what I've thought all along. The state could NOT introduce any of this because the only people that could legally testify about it -- i.e., where it wouldn't...

This and the alt juror's comment about her seeming sincere makes me think of a book I finished reading shortly before this trial began. It's called "Alone Together" and the author writes of extreme concern about a growing lack of empathy and understanding of social cues in a generation that has...

Thanks for clarifying. ITA!! With all you've said. :clap: