FL - Sarah Boone, 42, charged with murdering boyfriend Jorge Torres, 42, by leaving him locked in suitcase, Winter Park, Feb 2020 #2

[Megnut]

Owens on cross

Highlighting BAL and assorted impairments.

Owens asks, "And JT got himself into the suitcase voluntarily in a game of Hide-n-Seek"....

 

[Megnut]

Admittedly I'm biased but Owens is hard to take. Trying to trip the doctor up on numbers.

She's not playing.

 

[Megnut]

Owens establishes that there were no broken bones, that none of the blunt force injuries were the cause of death.

He actually asked her of positional asphyxia and suffocation, if she put both because she wasn't sure.

She put that to rest.

They happened in tandem.

 

[Megnut]

Owens now focusing on the bat, as cause of some of the injuries.

Owens now asking about JT's heart, widow maker heart disease.

Could that kill him?

No evidence of heart scarring, no acute event, no changes in heart muscle.

Owens is suggesting JT could also have had a spontaneous heart attack, I guess.

Her answer, at length, is magnificent. In short, "injury overrides disease".

 

[Izzylizzy]

I believe that if there was any way for him to get out of that suitcase, he would have. But I’d still do a dry run before demonstrating it at the trial.
IMO

I agree and had stated that in a following post.

 

[I am not Sherlock H.]

Judge asks SB if she's satisfied with her attorneys.

"Very much so".

And their strategy?

"Very much so".

(Judge described her for the record, wearing a black jacket and a white shirt "with splotching" on it.)

Thank you for sharing that @Megnut ….. helpful to know that and see it on the record……. and a silly question (as I am not watching this one….) ….. did the judge get that response from SB before the jury was brought in the courtroom?

In other words….. she was asked and answered that outside the presence of the jury? IANAL. MOO

 

[Megnut]

Thank you for sharing that @Megnut ….. helpful to know that and see it on the record……. and a silly question (as I am not watching this one….) ….. did the judge get that response from SB before the jury was brought in the courtroom?

In other words….. she was asked and answered that outside the presence of the jury? IANAL. MOO

Yes, before the jury came in. Getting it on the record. This judge is sharp.

 

[Izzylizzy]

Owens now focusing on the bat, as cause of some of the injuries.

Owens now asking about JT's heart, widow maker heart disease.

Could that kill him?

No evidence of heart scarring, no acute event, no changes in heart muscle.

Owens is suggesting JT could also have had a spontaneous heart attack, I guess.

Her answer, at length, is magnificent. In short, "injury overrides disease".

Memories of the Chauvin trial and George's heart condition.
In both cases neither man would have died that day from their heart issues had it not been what was done to them.

 

[sasha17]

His toxicology test showed alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine. No mention of diazepam.

 

[Megnut]

IMO Owens was trying to say that JT could have died of the heart issue that didn't kill him.

He just used a lot of numbers and questions to get there.

IMO

Score
Owens 0
Pathologist 1

It was bad enough he was zipped in a suitcase with limited air, he had a lot of injuries. Bat, staircase. She chose to render no aid.

JMO

 

[Izzylizzy]

Owens on cross

Highlighting BAL and assorted impairments.

Owens asks, "And JT got himself into the suitcase voluntarily in a game of Hide-n-Seek"....

I'm so looking forward to SB explaining to us all how 2 people play "hide & seek" when from the get-go the seeker knows where the hider is hiding.
Will she claim to have been drunk even though in the very beginning of her interrogation she claimed she wasn't drunk then at one point went on to blame alcohol,either for an action or not remembering something.

 

[arielilane]

Suitcase murder trial continues today. The state called the forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy on Jorge Torres. She believes he was in the suitcase for 11 hours & found 5-6 blunt force injuries on his body.


The autopsy photos were shown in court and you could see a lot of bruising and swelling on Jorge's body. The witness said he had injuries consistent to being hit by a bat. Cause of death was positional asphyxiation… ruled as a homicide.


Jorge was 103lbs & 5'2. The suitcase #SarahBoone zipped him in was 28 L x 20 W x 8 ⅞ deep. The forensic pathologist thinks he was in the fetal position in the suitcase for 11 hours. Blunt force injuries didn’t attribute to his death rather it was the lack of oxygen, suffocation


In the autopsy photo, it looks like Jorge Torres had a wedding ring on. #SarahBoone previously told investigators that she and Jorge were boyfriend/girlfriend for 3.5 years but not married.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1848377783757455687

 

[Megnut]

Judge taking up matters, sent jury out.

 

[Megnut]

There's an actual Stipulation that the decedant (deceased) is JT?

 

[Izzylizzy]

Suitcase murder trial continues today. The state called the forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy on Jorge Torres. She believes he was in the suitcase for 11 hours & found 5-6 blunt force injuries on his body.


The autopsy photos were shown in court and you could see a lot of bruising and swelling on Jorge's body. The witness said he had injuries consistent to being hit by a bat. Cause of death was positional asphyxiation… ruled as a homicide.


Jorge was 103lbs & 5'2. The suitcase #SarahBoone zipped him in was 28 L x 20 W x 8 ⅞ deep. The forensic pathologist thinks he was in the fetal position in the suitcase for 11 hours. Blunt force injuries didn’t attribute to his death rather it was the lack of oxygen, suffocation


In the autopsy photo, it looks like Jorge Torres had a wedding ring on. #SarahBoone previously told investigators that she and Jorge were boyfriend/girlfriend for 3.5 years but not married.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1848377783757455687

Wow!
I had no idea that Jorge was 5'2" and 103 Lbs.
Makes more sense how he fit in the suitcase, the size of many 13 yr olds.
He was wearing what SB said during her interrogation that it was an "engagement ring" and SB asked detectives when she could get it back.
They informed her that it would go to his next of kin not her.

 

[Megnut]

Second stipulation is an FDLE report. Not sure what's contained in it. Moving into the record.

Jury returning.

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1848373949832253536

 

[arielilane]

Judge M. Kraynick is great at what he does. jmo

 

[Megnut]

Next witness Meredith McCaskill, FDLE, crime laboratory analyst

Lengthy tutorial on DNA analysis

Finally getting somewhere. Scratch that. I'm not sure where we got. DNA under fingernails of JT and SB. I'm not sure if they did or duct have their own or each other's fingernails.

I'm useless.

JMO

 

[Megnut]

On cross, he asks whether DNA could be extracted from a baseball bat.

Expert held firm, only to the items they received and tested (which didn't include a baseball bat).

Excused.