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

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1846534279238402070

https://twitter.com/x/status/1846533309536346245

 

[Megnut]

Judge rules certain things in. BALs. Certain incidents. Denies the rest until or unless the Defense can make a case for them via testimony at trial.

This judge is sharp.

 

[nodamselindistress]

OMG this case is off the charts. I like the judge and feel he is doing his best. SB would try the patience of anyone and it seems her defense is following her lead.

 

[Megnut]

OMG this case is off the charts. I like the judge and feel he is doing his best. SB would try the patience of anyone and it seems her defense is following her lead.

It's crazy. The Defense is basically saying they can't answer the judge because they will find out during the trial, like it'll be a surprise to them too. They don't know what they're doing. Mad scramble. Lordy.

JMO

 

[Megnut]

Lost a porential juror to covid. (Tested positive, excused by Jury Services)
Lost a second potential juror, not sure why.

Jury selection will continue this afternoon.

 

[Megnut]

I feel like this judge's patience has been tried repeatedly, and now comes a defense late to Sarah's party, who can't answer basic questions. Judge: that's not how this works.

They're defending SB on the fly. Hoping, it sounds like, to tape together a defense, WHILE the State presents its case.

JMO

 

[Megnut]

15 minute recess

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1846557842926440832

 

[Megnut]

So here's my take on the Defense.

They're going to bring in Dr. Harper who will sat SB suffered from BSS but didn't even know it. That JT has a history of drinking and violence and that everything was fine on the night in question until JT poked his fingers through the gap in the suitcase, marks on his hand are consistent with the bat, and that fearing his escape, SB acted in self-defense.

I'm sure they asked their witness TO FIND anything they could use. But how is GOING TO BED an act of self-defense?

If the charge was bodily assault (SB taking a bat to his hand to prevent him exiting the suitcase, we could argue that the use of the bat was self-defense.

But leaving him alone in a suitcase she herself said she thought he could exit, how does going to bed support a BSS/self-defense defense?????

It makes no sense.

She didn't kill him with the baseball bat. She didn't kill him because she thought he was about to get out and come after her.

She left him in the suitcase to teach him a lesson. He died while being restrained against his will. Not in response to self-defense.

This trial can't be over soon enough.

JMO

 

[acehard]

OMG this case is off the charts. I like the judge and feel he is doing his best. SB would try the patience of anyone and it seems her defense is following her lead.

IMO the bulk is going to be a narrative style testimony on her part, so the judge is giving some leeway to let her dig her own grave. Jury ain't gonna buy all this. MOO

 

[nodamselindistress]

I was hoping the Judge would rule out BSS and self defense because IMO that just mucks up what really happened. Hopefully the jurors see past this.

 

[Megnut]

Did I hear that right? Defense wants all of the photos from SB's phone to be ex kuddd as evidence. Claims they don't know when the photos are from.

State says all the photos are organizdd by files with metadata for every one of those files.

 

[acehard]

I was hoping the Judge would rule out BSS and self defense because IMO that just mucks up what really happened. Hopefully the jurors see past this.

It will confuse them, but the recordings are undeniable. It will just come to them IMO

 

[Megnut]

I was hoping the Judge would rule out BSS and self defense because IMO that just mucks up what really happened. Hopefully the jurors see past this.

IMO he gave a guarded ruling. He won't let them bring in an expert to testify to self-defense prior to the Defense showing at trial where there is evidence of such. I fear it will get messy. Self-defense, the bat. Because she though he was about to get out and be violent. But what's the self-defense action for which she left him in the suitcase.
She either thought he could get out or he couldn't. Her defense seems to hinge on both being true.

JMO

 

[Megnut]

The Defense's objection to all the photos and videos is bizarre.

Judge describes the Defense as parachuting in! Classic.

Judge finds State will produce foundation before entering photos into evidence. Judge finds it relevant

 

[Megnut]

I'm out for a while, will catch up later.

I need a break from the Defense.

JMO

 

[Megnut]

Heading out the door, but wow, defense just told the Court that the P was planning to enter photos of the minor child into evidence (from the discovery photos). Bold.

State had no recollection of such. Looked through their photos. Two show a reflection of possible children in a snow globe or aquarium. State removed them.

Defense seems to be threatening to force drawn out chains of custody for each and every photo. Sigh.

This trial may never end.

JMO

 

[Megnut]

Judge conveniently breaking for (my) lunch.

Jury selection at 1:30.

Additional/unfinished motions/issues, tomorrow morning.

 

[Seattle1]

Defense says there is an overt act, his hand coming out of the suitcase.

That was her threat.

If Jorge could get his hand out of the suitcase, he wouldn't have exhausted himself to his very last breath, begging SB to help him as he suffocated to death! JMO

 

[sasha17]

Wow. Judge ruled that LE's statements of her guilt need to be redacted.

Here are the portions that must be redacted:

page 53, line 11, Detective CK, “Well he’s dead as a result of your actions.”
line 13, Detective CK, “He’s dead as a result of your actions.”
line 14, SB, “I understand that.”

page 55, line 24, Detective SL, “I, I, I have one last question, I just, I mean you real, you realize you’re the person that killed him right?”
page 56, line 1, SB, “I thought about that.”

page 92, line 15, Detective SL, “Well, intention or not, Jorge is dead. You act like, when you say unintentionally that absolves you from everything.”