GUILTY FL - FSU Law Professor Dan Markel Murdered by Hitmen 18 July 2014 - *5 Guilty* #28

[Zedzded]

So before the murder, Harvey intentionally inflated the display size to BestBuy when he called in the ticket because he somehow anticipated that years later, the size of the TV might become a point of contention in the investigation? That doesn’t add up to me… I doubt Harvey strategically inflated the size of a “small dorm TV” on a warranty call for some future legal advantage.

The far simpler explanation is the TV really was a 55-inch display, and that’s why it appears as such on the BestBuy ticket. I am sure the state subpoenaed those records and they know exactly what the size was. If the TV were actually the small dorm sized TV as Jeff described, the prosecution would have likely highlighted that in one of the trials and they never did.

Yes that makes sense.

But JL being adamant that the TV was a cheap dorm TV does not make sense. This was not a case of him being unsure or misremembering. He was very clear, this was a cheap, dorm TV that he even offered to replace. He seemed bemused as to why WA did not replace the cheap TV.

The Adelsons are pathological liars, crooks, fraudsters and a whole bunch of other epithets I could throw at them. So who knows why HA would lie about a 55" TV. We just know that the Adelsons struggle with the truth somewhat. Maybe it was simply his fragile ego not wanting to admit one of the Adelsons was slumming it with a cheap TV.

Someone's lying.

 

[DustysMom]

Here is why its important – Jeff is a key witness and he knew the theory that the BestBuy repair was an alibi. He gave a very misleading / inaccurate description of something central to support the alibi theory. Jeff didn’t just misremember a detail – he described a 55‑inch display as a “cheap dorm‑room TV.”… very misleading. That exaggeration shaped how jurors picture the scene and how they judge Wendi. It also helped shape a narrative on social media. I am almost certain I heard a juror interview (I believe it was Donna’s foreman) where they said we thought it was very suspicious that Wendi had a repair appointment for a small cheap TV... no one does that. We know that the TV was under warranty, and it is far less odd that someone would have a 55” display under warranty called in under a service contact. Did the size framing from Jeff influence the jurors opinion? Objectively, I say yes.

If the BestBuy record shows it was a full‑size 55‑inch screen, it undercuts the idea that Jeff’s testimony was neutral or reliable. It suggests he was filtering events through emotion, resentment, his own narrative or to help bolster the states case. That matters. If he can turn a large display into a throwaway dorm TV, to help support the state case / and the ‘repair alibi’ what else did he frame in a way that wasn’t accurate? It raises a real credibility issue with Jeff, that Wendi’s defense will surely raise and anyone that thinks this is trivial ignores how much weight jurors place on a witness’s ability to get basic facts right.

Yes- I understand your POV and agree. However, it might raise an eyebrow that WA’s tv (whatever its size) had a ‘smashed/splintered’ screen that she insisted the boys (and JL) watch a movie on - Instead of viewing said movie on the undamaged tv in the next room. Furthermore, WA’s parents arranged for a repair (WA, lawyer, professor, author could not call the number for Geek Squad and arrange this herself ?) for this tv that was obviously unrepairable per the repairman who witnessed WA having a phone conversation with CA about it during the repair appointment. The entire situation was weird/uncommon by itself and then even stranger that it occurred while DM was being stalked and murdered at the same time.