CLOSING ARGUMENTS (Tues 09/04/2012)

[CarolinaMoon]

Lopez bringing Stacy up so often in his closing sure doesn't help the jury officially forget she has gone missing with DP as the one and only POI.

Based on the hearsay evidence, it sounds like both wives were in fear of Drew. Now, when Stacy couldn't take his behavior any more and decided to divorce him, she probably felt even more fear that she could be killed as well.

Since she had dated Drew amd gpme through his divorce from Katleen with him, I'm sure she heard his rants about his soon-to-be ex and heard that Drew didn't want to give her anything. At that time, Stacy was in love and I dare say she and Drew were quite the conspiritors in bothering Kathleen. Now, with two children of her own and pretty much re-living Kathleen's nightmare, she was afraid that she would be left high and dry as well, if not dead.

The jury doesn't know she adopted Kathleen's boys and wanted to take all 4 children with her to escape Drew. That would have taken more money than she could ever earn.

I do wish she had been more careful about her call to Mr. Smith. I am betting that what he overheard was the reason she "disappeared".

By excoriating Stacy as a liar, Lopez has brought Stacy to the forefront and I hope some of the jurors will put 2+2 together.

 

[Bravo]

Did he get teary eyed when he said the bolded part? This guy has issues. Good lord. When did this become about him and his mother? :lol:

I guess he had to fill his allotted time some how:floorlaugh:

 

[Cappuccino]

Guilty or hung jury is what I predict.

Same prediction here. The prosecution didn't really meet their burden, but the defense was surprisingly inept. For highly paid defense attorneys I'm astonished they did such a poor job when I've seen many a poorly paid public defender do better.

Of course, the difference is that the poorly paid pd's I'm referring to had clients who really were being railroaded and they knew it, so they were genuinely committed to their clients' innocence. What can you with a client like DP?

 

[Shelby1]

BBM:

Classy, classy guy.

No kidding.

The Framers of the Constitution would have never used the word "barf".

 

[Livingthedream]

This was the point I was going to make.... He was walking..
He most likely didnt even know that stacey was trying to call him.. as he had his phone turned off.. He most likely figured He would get them washed and stuffed somewhere before stacey woke up and or saw them

Indeed. Not only that, DP knew the safest place, given the circumstances, was to have the evidence in HIS control. There was no safe place to discard the clothes in that subdivision without the very real possibility it could be found, thus sinking him immediately.

He would have been freaking out if he had left it out to be discovered.

 

[katydid23]

It seems ridiculous to me for him to bring the crime scene home......

I agree with you. It was ridiculous. But he was in a desperate situation. And he did lots of ridiculous things. He killed two of his wives, took bribes from drug dealers, slept with underage girls....he was pathetic.

 

[WindyCityGirl]

The jurors are now in the courtroom, and Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow begins his rebuttal closing. “I want to remind everybody that this trial is about the murder of Kathleen Savio . . . young, vibrant, and murdered within the prime of her life.

 

[WindyCityGirl]

In Session “You were just told that the laceration on Kathleen Savio’s head was the size of the Grand Canyon . . . there were no injuries to the brain whatsoever. Dr. Case has found a marker, a very thin layer of blood. You’d see why that could happen . . . they were implying that she said you could not be knocked unconscious without some sign of visible injury to the brain That’s not what she told you. But in this case, Kathleen Savio probably wouldn’t even have suffered a concussion in a fall of this type. It didn’t happen . . . all you heard during the defense closing was that this was a slip and fall accident. But you know much better than that,.”

 

[WindyCityGirl]

In Session “If this piece of paper [Savio’s death certificate] stood for what the defense says it does . . .” Objection. The parties go to a sidebar.

 

[WindyCityGirl]

In Session The sidebar ends. The jurors are excused from the courtroom.

 

[WindyCityGirl]

In Session The jurors are now gone. Attorney Greenberg states the defense objection, claiming the State “wants to impeach the document with some kind of conjecture.” Prosecutor Glasgow agrees to move to a different line of argument. The judge then sends for the jurors.

 

[WindyCityGirl]

In Session The jurors are back in the courtroom, and prosecutor Glasgow resumes his rebuttal summation. “There are two documents relating to the coroner’s office that are in evidence . . . one of them is the autopsy protocol of Dr. Mitchell. You heard Mr. Lopez say he found the manner of death to be accident; that’s not true. He made no determination of the manner of death . . . :” Objection. The parties go to a sidebar.

 

[WindyCityGirl]

In Session The sidebar ends. “You heard the testimony of Dr. Blum, as to how he proceeded with the second autopsy . . . he gave an opinion as to manner [of death], which was homicide . . . with regards to Dr. Jentzen, the key thrust of the defense argument is that this is a slip and fall, an accident. The evidence clearly shows that this a homicide. There was only one neuropathologist who testified in this case, Dr. Mary Case. He testified that she predominantly does autopsies on children’s brains. Clearly, that was a misrepresentation of what she does. Also, Dr. Jentzen testified that she had said she couldn’t be rendered unconscious without a visible injury. She didn’t’ say that . . . she said there wouldn’t even be a concussion in this case.”

 

[katydid23]

defense has routinely made objections during trial to disrupt state's rhythm, throw off prosecutors. ...

We're a minute into the rebuttal, the defense has objected 3 times and there have been 2 sidebars....

"You saw the tub..use your common experience" he says in regards to defense claim of Savio slipping an falling in tub

When you don't have a legitimate defense, dancing around the periphery is all you have.

Glasgow talking about abrasion on Savio body, what pathologists said "it's an abrasion, not an artifact"

Glasgow: "None of our experts wavered from their opinion." Defense witnesses have conceded "it's possible" case is a homicide.

prosecutor Glasgow talking to jury about mark on Savio's buttock, saying it's an abrasion. Tub surface couldn't have cause it...

 

[WindyCityGirl]

In Session “It takes a fall of ten to fifteen feet, or a car accident to get diffuse axonal injury. Yet that’s what Dr. Jentzen says we have here . . . Dr. Baden found that diaphragm bruise . . . but that diaphragm bruise doesn’t fit this fall, so it’s gone; it’s an artifact . . . that buttock bruise, Dr. Mitchell saw it when it was fresh; that finding stands. But you can’t get that abrasion in this fall. So what do they do? It’s gone, it’s an artifact . . . you know beyond a reasonable doubt that what you’ve been seeing in these pictures is an abrasion, not an artifact. Finally, Dr. Jentzen said it was possible this could be a homicide . . . none of our witnesses said it could be an accident.”.

 

[Wishbone]

I agree with you. It was ridiculous. But he was in a desperate situation. And he did lots of ridiculous things. He killed two of his wives, took bribes from drug dealers, slept with underage girls....he was pathetic.

The man irritates me alot but some things just make my hinky meter go off and this was one of them. Call it a quirk or whatever some things just bug me till I understand them........I doubt we'll ever know the truth of what happened that day or night that KS died.

 

[WindyCityGirl]

In Session “I would submit that Dr. Jentzen’s testimony bears little weight in this case, especially with respect with Dr. Case and Dr. Blum. And Dr. DiMaio . . . for all the evidence you heard about drugs, about cervical vertigo, Kathleen Savio was a healthy woman when she was in that tub that night . . . Dr. DiMaio, after admitting this was a neurological question, admits he’s a gunshot expert. But this isn’t a gunshot case. As to the hip bruise, he also brings it down to one bruise. But you saw the picture, the three single bruises . . . you heard the testimony from Dr. Blum, Dr. Case, and Dr. Baden that it would take a forceful blow to make those . . . those were deep bruises. As to the clavicle injuries, it doesn’t fit this slip and fall, so [SNAPS FINGERS] artifact!”

 

[WindyCityGirl]

Tweet from Neil Schori!

Neil Schori @neilschori: When you don't have a legitimate defense, dancing around the periphery is all you have.

 

[WindyCityGirl]

In Session “The orthostatic hypotension . . . Dr. Baden worked with patients that had that. And he indicated you’d normally see a history of this; it doesn’t just come on. You know she didn’t have orthostatic hypotension; that didn’t happen here. There’s a laceration in Dr. DiMaio’s book, and it’s a wound caused by a baseball bat. That’s just like the wound on Kathleen Savio’s head. That injury could also have been caused by a pipe or a pool cue; it’s a blunt injury. Dr. Blum also said it could be caused by a weapon. If she’s only stunned, and you go under water in a tub, are you going to stay there? Not hardly.”

 

[fifteen89]

Geez, I can't believe the judge has gone this long without leaving the bench.

Maybe he's thinking like I am and waiting for the DT to start their closing.