GUILTY FL - Emanuel Murray, 3 mos, thrown from car, dies, Tampa, 5 May 2009

[zoey]

Tampa Bay Times Live ‏@TBTimesLive · 6m
Scaglione says Bedwell wanted to break up with McTear. She complained he kept breaking into her apartment. #McTearTrial

Tampa Bay Times Live ‏@TBTimesLive · 2m
Prosecution wants to be able to ask about the injunction Bedwell almost got against McTear. Defense objects. #McTearTrial
Bay Times Live ‏@TBTimesLive · 2m
Judge Fuente: "This opens up a can of worms on both sides. We could create more mischief than is warranted." #McTearTrial

 

[zoey]

Tampa Bay Times Live ‏@TBTimesLive · 2m
Judge: putting Scaglione's comments in context "is extremely damaging to Mr. McTear." Wants to end his testimony quickly. #McTearTrial

 

[zoey]

Tampa Bay Times Live ‏@TBTimesLive · 1m
Prosecution is concerned that jurors believe someone other than McTear took Bedwell's baby from the mall. #McTearTrial

Tampa Bay Times Live ‏@TBTimesLive · 1m
When Scaglione asked Bedwell who took her baby, she said, "my boyfriend." #McTearTrial

 

[zoey]

gotta get some things done!

 

[atthelake]

gotta get some things done!

Mowing my lawn and putting on weedkiller and pre-emergent....missed what time they are coming back. ??? TIA

ETA: :duh: it says on screen 3:15 eastern :floorlaugh: Hey, what can I say, rushed and dripping with sweat and I missed it......ohhhhhhhhhh, we are backkkkkkkkkkk! I hear noise!

 

[atthelake]

Witness is done, next one is keshia coffie - a placement with Camelot (non-profit agency who does placement of children that came into foster care)

 

[Jewels53]

Elaine Silvestrini ‏@ElaineTBO 3m
Another social worker, Keshia Coffie, called by #McTear defense. She was a placement specialist with Camelot, agency that cared for Bedwell

Elaine Silvestrini ‏@ElaineTBO 1m
"I remember her saying, 'My baby dead. My baby dead. My uncle beat me up and killed my baby." #McTearTrial

Elaine Silvestrini ‏@ElaineTBO 52s
Coffie says she called Bedwell's case manager after the conversation. #McTearTrial

 

[Jewels53]

Elaine Silvestrini ‏@ElaineTBO 41s
Prosecutor cross - Coffie had never spoken to Bedwell before that morning. This was after the baby was killed. #McTearTrial

Elaine Silvestrini ‏@ElaineTBO now
Bedwell was crying and hysterical, Coffie agrees. #McTearTrial

Elaine Silvestrini ‏@ElaineTBO 3s
Coffie says she could have told police she wasn't sure Bedwell said "uncle" because "It's not a clear memory." #McTearTrial

 

[atthelake]

:thud: :thud:

 

[Jewels53]

Tampa Bay Times Live ‏@TBTimesLive now
Defense rests its case. McTear's attorneys do not call him to testify. #McTearTrial

 

[Jewels53]

:thud: :thud:

Oh my is he having second thoughts!

 

[Jewels53]

Tampa Bay Times Live ‏@TBTimesLive 1m
In a very soft voice, McTear says he understands his rights. Asks to talk to his attorney again about testifying. #McTearTrial

Tampa Bay Times Live ‏@TBTimesLive 40s
Judge recesses and clears the courtroom so McTear can speak to his defense attorney. #McTearTrial

 

[Jewels53]

Elaine Silvestrini ‏@ElaineTBO 50s
#McTear says he has decided to not testify."

Elaine Silvestrini ‏@ElaineTBO now
#McTearTrial prosecution has no rebuttal testimony. Judge says summations tomorrow.

 

[Chelly]

Tampa Bay Times Live ‏@TBTimesLive 1m
In a very soft voice, McTear says he understands his rights. Asks to talk to his attorney again about testifying. #McTearTrial

Tampa Bay Times Live ‏@TBTimesLive 40s
Judge recesses and clears the courtroom so McTear can speak to his defense attorney. #McTearTrial

Perhaps he was reconsidering and his atty set him straight

 

[katydid23]

Get up there and testify you coward :furious:

 

[Chelly]

Thanks Jewels. You did a great job today and it is appreciated.
:loveyou:

 

[atthelake]

Jewels, :bow: and others that have kept us up when folks are AFK ((folks who update))...and doing two trials at once! (meetup at *master* Bob Bashara trial later for sure?) :giggle: we'll have to go back to the online chat as we did with previous trials as will be x-rated comments on that trial perhaps. Zoey, you gonna watch that one and come back to chat?

 

[katydid23]

Is that going to hurt the states case that the social worker said she was told the uncle did it?

 

[Chelly]

Get up there and testify you coward :furious:

For a few minutes there I thought he wanted to

 

[Chelly]

Is that going to hurt the states case that the social worker said she was told the uncle did it?

I doubt it, because under cross she seemed unsure of what she heard. I didn't find the defenses witnesses all that credible or certain.