The 320 page thing, geez, that’s nothing. When they start talking terabytes I might listen. It’s also scary that she prefers to single handedly review discovery, and take on another case, where I would imagine her same thought process applies. How can you blame that on anyone else, when you refuse to delegate or trust any other member of your team? It was a poor excuse.
MOO
There is NO WAY AT doesn't know what's in Discovery.
There is NO WAY AT doesn't have her own spreadsheet.
There is NO WAY she hasn't utilized team members to sift through the less necessary stuff.
But what AT NEEDS is the appearance of overload and at the State's hand.
We've all heard that lawyer oath -- pound the evidence, pound the investigation, pound the investigators, pound the table.
AT has added some.
Pound the planets. Pound the adjectives. Pound sand.
And pound discovery, though she hasn't invented this one. Whine about it. Too much, not enough, incomplete, too complete, blame the State for somehow burying your defendant's perfect alibi in irrelevant terabytes somewhere. As if it's their job to do it. As if there's actually an alibi there. When we all know there isn't.
And the best part of all of this -- if BK had an alibi, AT wouldn't have to go in search of it, wouldn't have to pretend-boast she has partial corroboration as if she's waiting on the last little push pin to prove he was somewhere else. He wasn't and she can't.
Even if someone else left BK's DNA under MM, how in heaven's name did they get BK's weapon, build, brybrows, vehicle? And how did they get his vehicle if he was also out driving in it? It's quite absurd. We know it. She knows it.
Judge Hippler knows it.
He has been quite patient, willing to hear her out on any number of motions, but he also telegraphs well, giving her reminders when she strays to the fence line of professional ethics. He sounds polite when he says it, "as an officer of the court" but no one -- most of all AT -- doesn't hear the SMACK in that.
At the racetrack, that would be a yellow flag, with the red one wound up, ready to SNAP.
Her expert's affidavit went too far, and I'll bet they are fast rewriting their strategy. It's one thing to give a defendant his rigorous due, but selling out, that's a bridge too far and they have been warned. She may have to abandon Sy Ray altogether because it'll be a really bad look to continue to claim LE has withheld data (which doesn't exist and wouldn't help her if it did) in violation of the Constitution, BK's rights, mom, baseball and apple pie in a conspiracy that implicates the State and LE, across multiple agencies. A conspiracy that also makes no sense.
JMO
