GUILTY CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, found deceased, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 *Arrest* #70

[Seattle1]

Senior Assistant Attorney General Katharine Gillespie told the court that she does not think the trial judge even made an official ruling on the challenge. She also argued that Letecia didn’t properly challenge the juror under a specific subsection of the law.

“Because defendant (Letecia) didn’t challenge MB (the juror) under (1)(b), she didn’t address whether MB’s son-in-law met the family ‘within the third degree’ requirement, and she didn’t correct the court’s misunderstanding as to her challenge, the trial court wasn’t on notice that this question needed to be resolved,” Gillespie stated in a brief filed in the court of appeals ahead of Tuesday’s oral arguments.

^^rsbm

This was one of the most horrific trials I've ever observed, and I don't think LS could have had a better Judge presiding over her case than Judge Gregory Werner. I don't see the allegation by the defense getting past Judge Werner. Not today LS. Don't pass go. Stay on your cold bunk.... forever. JMO

 

[Megnut]

Am I missing something? It didn't even sound like it's been established whether this individual fit within the third degree. Family trees can get branchy. And in-law of an in-law could put one out there quite a ways out in a limb. Could be a juror's child's spouse. But could also be the spouse of a stepchild, the stepchild from a current or former relationship. Someone with whom the juror had zero contact.

I think this will fall to strategy. The Defense didn't pursue a strike out which then IMO is akin to endorsement.

Interesting but not probative.

Verdict will stand.

JMO