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Good catch! Could it have been the cameraman, to himself? If so, not very professional. That said, I'm glad he (or whomever it was) thought the defense attorney was being a smug jerk for his random and unfunny crack about the original ME attaching a wrong page to his report. I hope the jury...

I completely agree. You know who might leave him on top of a rock? Someone who cared about him and wanted to leave him in a spiritual place. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thankfully this case does not hinge on forensic evidence. The ME confirmed the boy was deceased and oxygen deprived. Given the overwhelming circumstantial evidence, that is enough for me. I was surprised DJ's lawyer didn't criticize the ME for not testing for the presence of spirits. Surely...

DJ's lawyer used a classic tactic to attack the medical examiner today -- listing test after test that the examiner could have performed on the body but did not, and using that as a springboard to make his ultimate point that the examiner cannot say for sure how Brendan died or where. This is...

It's called accomplice liability. If you encourage someone else to commit a crime, and they do, you can face the same punishment as if you did the crime yourself. An important requirement for accomplice liability is that you specifically intended your encouragement to cause your friend to...

I've read the summary of this morning's testimony but haven't had a chance to listen to it. It doesn't sound like Julie's testimony was too damning for DJ. Apparently she said he was immature and jealous, but if that alone makes him a murderer than A LOT of teenagers and young adults would be...

According to media reports, the ex-girlfriend, Julie Stensky, will be called to testify tomorrow in the prosecution's case. It also appears that she may plead the fifth, unless offered immunity. It sounds like that issue will be resolved via the judge away from the jury and before the trial...

Hopefully this will be my last post about the site visit. It appears from media reports that the jury took a bus directly to the woods, and did not walk the half mile there from DJ's house. But the reports also state that they the jury was then driven by DJ's house on the way back to the...

Did anybody else see how filthy the socks were from the walk the test child did? Trial watchers (including the media) were not allowed to view the photos of Brendan's actual socks from the crime scene, but the jury did. If Brendan's actual socks were as clean as the prosecution alleges, that...

Many of the media reports over the past two weeks (i.e. since the judge made the decision to allow the jury to do the walk) stated that it would be a full walk through of the half-mile trip from DJ's house to the creek. That's what prompted my post re: concerns I had about how accurate a...

Apparently Lady Justice inadvertently set the video to “private.” Hopefully that will get corrected soon.

She sounded very self-centered, given the fact that a small child was found dead. There's not one mention of poor Brendan -- only the impact of his death on HER. Very immature, even for a 17 year old. JMO

Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once famously said that while he could not define obscenity, "I know it when I see it." I thought of that line in watching DJ's police interview the day Brendan died, and in particular in watching DJ's reaction to the news. To me it seems like he was...

I've only gotten through DJ's mom's testimony so far, but I thought it was pretty effective for the prosecution in challenging the theory that he could have walked to the woods on his own: (1) Brendan wouldn't even want to walk the few blocks from his grandma's apartment to DJ's -- they would...

I think the decision to have the jury walk the route from DJ's house to the creek is very interesting. The prosecution has called this walk "pivotal" to show the jury how unlikely it would be for a 3 year old to walk the length of the half mile route and to find the secluded path into the...