2011.06.29 Sidebar Thread (Trial Day Thirty-One)

[sherryk]

We are about to get started again. I have to ask - does anyone think that the legal teams watch HLN on InSession during lunch?

Salem

yes i think that ESPECIALLY the defense has someone watching all the news on this during day and nightly shows.. for the reason of opinion but also because they really dont know where to go with the defense .. they probally get pointers from the coverage.

 

[fifteen89]

NeJame thinks she will testify. Guess we get to find out soon!!!

I think she wants to testify. I believe she thinks she can talk her way outta anything....including this. All the way to the end of the Universal Studio hallway. If she takes the stand, her lawyers will make sure everyone knows it was over their objection. I personally hope she gets her way. And the Prosecutors rip her sorry butt to next Sunday and back and then rip her to shreds.

 

[Dr.Fessel]

Jury nullification dudes

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2011-03-02/news/os-orange-county-jury-leaflets-20110302_1_aclu-appeals-appeals-court-leaflets

I like those people and they will probably win their argument.

 

[BigFatMommyDog]

some kind of summthin going on in court

 

[Emma Peel]

About tears.

I'm of "mediteranean" descent.

I'm here to tell ya all the men in my family cry at sad stuff, sweet stuff, love stuff, and church stuff.

Call them out on it and they'll skewer ya with the nearest shish-ka-bob.

Point being, there are plenty of cultural variations on the "grown men don't cry" rule.

 

[QueenD]

I think someone is going to jail today by HHJP

 

[Serjen]

I wonder if they anyone on the jury has experience with suicide (knowing someone who committed it or attempted to). When I was 18 I worked in a daycare. One day, one of the fathers came in to pick up his kids. He was in a really good mood and he gave one of the lady's a bottle of hot sauce that they had talked about months prior, she was saying she couldn't find it anywhere in the stores. Also, he was extra talkative with all of us, asking us questions and telling us how much he appreciated all we did for his children, etc. The next day his wife came in and told us her husband had attempted suicide after he picked up his kids from the daycare. They were watching TV and he went downstairs and hung himself. He was saved before actually succeeding, but he did cause some brain damage and was in the hospital for a long time after...
All that being said, I swear his final day seemed like a 'goodbye' to us all. Getting the hot sauce he knew the girl wanted, telling us how much he appreciates all we do. I understood what George meant when he said he was saying goodbye without actually saying it.

 

[Etilema]

If I recall correctly. GA put the verdict into plain basic math: 1 + 1 = 2!

If I might paraphrase: The smell in the trunk of that car was human decomposition and my daughter (ICA) was the last person seen with my granddaughter in that car. 1 + 1 = 2.

I totally agree and I thought that was an amazing statement of George's part.

However, I think he may have meant that she *knew* what happened to her, rather than that she had murdered Caylee, necessarily.

 

[norcat]

My husband is 6'8" and has the biggest heart of anyone I've ever met. He is always the first to cry in movies. Its an endearing quality. My gentle giant.

:heart:

Although my DH is not 6'8", he always cries before I do. He's a sensitive man, but a strong man too. He is very compassionate. I love him even more for it!

 

[kantoo]

man in handcuffs named Mark Schmidder (spelling?) is being arraigned in front of Judge Perry right now. #CaseyAnthony -jfellby cfnews13casey via twitter at 12:27 PM

 

[2door73chevy]

Who is that guy?

 

[TiaM]

I also love how GA said I know, KC knows and God knows.

I hope Juror #4 loved that also!

 

[Sleuth5]

I believe that sociopaths are born and their environment plays a huge factor in whether they will be "functioning" sociopaths, able to get along in the world without doing too much damage, or whether they will go on to become serial killers.

There has been brain research in recent years that, IIRC, shows that chronic offenders have brain malfunctions. IIRC there is a section of the brain (amygdala?) that controls empathy and in criminals it doesn't properly function.

Yes, the activity there is significantly diminished in the brain imaging of individuals with known poor impulse control.

 

[nursebeeme]

here is the afternoon trial thread: [ame="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=141917"]2011.06.29 TRIAL Day Thirty-one (Afternoon Session) - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community[/ame]

 

[yeknomaras]

A man in handcuffs named Mark Schmidder (spelling?) is being arraigned in front of Judge Perry right now. #CaseyAnthony -jfell

 

[momtective]

OMG what's going on? Some disturbance outside the court????

 

[Sleuths4Me]

A man in handcuffs named Mark Schmidder (spelling?) is being arraigned in front of Judge Perry right now. #CaseyAnthony -jfell

 

[lajones81]

http://www.wftv.com/caseyanthony/index.html:
Bruce at WFTV:
"Something happening in court!"

@CFNews13CaseyCasey Anthony News13
"A man in handcuffs named Mark Schmidder (spelling?) is being arraigned in front of Judge Perry right now. #CaseyAnthony -jfell"

@KBelichWFTVKathi Belich, WFTV
"A spectator apparently is being held on a contempt charge for doing something."

 

[CN2Souls]

We are about to get started again. I have to ask - does anyone think that the legal teams watch HLN on InSession during lunch?

Salem

I think so Salem I remember when InSession said JB only had 50 cases and than he called in with in 5 min and said he had 75 cases...

:floorlaugh:

 

[justanother]

We are about to get started again. I have to ask - does anyone think that the legal teams watch HLN on InSession during lunch?

Salem

JB does im sure! Didn't he call one them to give his credentials after they said something?