GUILTY CT - Jennifer Dulos, 50, deceased/not found, New Canaan, 24 May 2019 *ARRESTS* #67

[browneyes]

Hopefully the jury got nothing from PETU’s testimony, but felt they needed to clarify it. To me, it was confusing as crap.

 

[BadRx]

So since I missed this replay in court, did anyone note any “looks or pleasure” from the defense on the Petu testimony request?

I didn't. Personally JS seemed a little stressed.

 

[BUF]

This was in the note sent to the judge….you can take the “best friend” part in different ways. Lie for her? She would know? She didn’t need an interpreter? More…

The note read: “Your honor can we please get a copy of Michelle's best friend testimony? “

Jury deliberates a second day in Jennifer Dulos’s murder case

 

[Baby baby Jane]

One thing I do know:
Your best friend can be in an affair with your boyfriend/partner/girlfriend/boss and look you in the eye, day after day, like everything is normal. You are always last to know.

 

[whitelilac]

No internet this morning....sooo frustrating.
Back now, caught up.

They want Petu testimony? What testimony??? That MT is innocent and they share the same morals??
Is this easel person's doing?

 

[shotgun09]

'Her Beigeness' wore blue this afternoon.
Imagine that...

 

[Jmoose]

In CT, does the jury have to be unanimous in their verdict?

Yes

 

[bkgregg5]

So I went back and looked at the CAST report. The report showed activity summary on 5/24 between 3:16 - 3:35 pm and again at 7:47 to 8:27 pm. So there is definitely a gap between those times when Petu said she was communicating "around seven." The report shows MT receiving two incoming phone calls at 8:15 and 8:26 pm.

Edit to add: Just because the report didn't show it doesn't mean MT's phone wasn't active during that time. It just wasn't displayed in court. It does not appear that either phone call at 8:15 or 8:26 were longer than two minutes each.

 

[Baby baby Jane]

'Her Beigeness' wore blue this afternoon.
Imagine that...

I had predicted for verdict -
White
Virgin Mary Blue …

 

[lucegirl]

It was said upthread (I think by @afitzy) about Petu’s testimony not being corroborated by another witness, a document or phone data. I just cannot imagine a jury would give enough weight to her uncorroborated testimony such to cast doubt on the weight of evidence that is corroborated.

And I don’t see why her being on the phone makes her unaware of the trash dumping. She has eyes, so she sees what is going on. She has spent the day covering her tracks. This is just too late in the day to be relevant to the phone manipulation, driving, cleaning, fire situation.

 

[Jmoose]

Did I understand that right? Petu says she never saw Fotis after 5/24/19? But then says he was at her home on 6/1/19 with MT and others? Why did she lie?

Because she is a lying sack of…well, you know.

 

[Megnut]

'Her Beigeness' wore blue this afternoon.
Imagine that...

I hope that wasn't lost on the jury. Showing up mostly in beige for six weeks. First day out of trial, she chooses bold color.

Beige was deliberate.

Harmless color. Unless you're masquerading behind it.

I can't tell you how much I LOVE that Judge Randolph has missed no opportunity to say that this case is about the credibility of the defendant.

It's that simple.

If you believe she was truthful -- that she was forgetful and subjected to suggestion, hunger, ruses, fatigue, a chill, language insufficiency, fear of the police or just misremembering -- across all time, you might acquit.

But if you believe she lied about so much as a single material fact, you can throw out her entire "testimony" with the Petu bathwater.

And if you throw out her testimony (as presented through her own words over three interviews), all that remains is the evidence and the why.

Why lie if the truth can save you?

Guilty.

JMO

 

[lucegirl]

So I went back and looked at the CAST report. The report showed activity summary on 5/24 between 3:16 - 3:35 pm and again at 7:47 to 8:27 pm. So there is definitely a gap between those times when Petu said she was communicating "around seven." The report shows MT receiving two incoming phone calls at 8:15 and 8:26 pm. It shows her making an outgoing phone call at 8:27 pm.

Again - if she is on the phone with Petu at 7 pm or later it might as well be the next day. I think the weight of the evidence against MT in the morning and afternoon is the most damning as well as the car wash day. Her being on the phone during some part of trash dumping just doesn’t seem so normal so as to overlook the whole sequence.

 

[Aquarian]

Again - if she is on the phone with Petu at 7 pm or later it might as well be the next day. I think the weight of the evidence against MT in the morning and afternoon is the most damning as well as the car wash day. Her being on the phone during some part of trash dumping just doesn’t seem so normal so as to overlook the whole sequence.

Shout that into the jury room !

 

[shotgun09]

It sort of appears to me that there might be one juror who is (was? ) clinging to something they thought Petu might have said. IMO, Petu was the least believable witness that the defense put on the stand. It might have been insisted upon, by the easel provider / foreperson to re-watch her testimony and take down notes to disprove the thought. MOO

 

[DeDee]

MT went to Petu's store and sat at her desk. P spoke of preferring a check.

At the airport, around 7, Petu is on phone speaking with MT. More testimony about being at airport.

"Did MT tell you she was on Albany Ave?"

Objection. Hearsay.

JR: Unusual situ. "It could fall under statement by a party in the course in the furtherance of the conspiracy."

"Did MT tell you she was on Albany Ave with Fotis? Or cleaning 80 Mountain?"

P: "No. No."

 

[Megnut]

It was said upthread (I think by @afitzy) about Petu’s testimony not being corroborated by another witness, a document or phone data. I just cannot imagine a jury would give enough weight to her uncorroborated testimony such to cast doubt on the weight of evidence that is corroborated.

And I don’t see why her being on the phone makes her unaware of the trash dumping. She has eyes, so she sees what is going on. She has spent the day covering her tracks. This is just too late in the day to be relevant to the phone manipulation, driving, cleaning, fire situation.

IF FD drove to a whole other city to throw away a couple of bags of "construction" trash and construction-y floor liners, what of the ballet of car doors? FD needed a cover for that? Throw your own debris away, lover boy. On your own time.

But here's where her lie combusts: what sort of construction debris gets filed into a FedEx mailer and mailed into the sewer of the great beyond?

What did she think it was? Drywall? Sawn 2x4s? Copper?

Smell test fail.

Jmo

 

[Love Never Fails]

What does it say that they are deliberating over four hours now? This is a tough decision? Or are they unable to convince just one juror who doesn’t want to convict?

 

[lucegirl]

Shout that into the jury room !

Let me get my HORN!

 

[Love Never Fails]

If the jury is hung, does anyone think MT would be retried after all these years? How would that affect KM’s trial?