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

[texaslb218]

Did she sit on the suitcase and zip it up while he's in there? moo

I have wondered that exact thing.

 

[Megnut]

IMO that night, SB didn't move the damaged zipper pull at all. She pulled the easy one until they met, or nearly met.

JMO

 

[jepop]

Wearing out the wow icon like never before on every post. The whole of SB's testimony on cross is just gonna be one God almighty Wow imo.

 

[Izzylizzy]

Who is AB?

We know that JT's parents do not hold hate in their hearts for defendant SB, or anybody else. They are larger humans than I could be in their situation. JMO

I had Ashley Benefield/AB on my mind from an earlier comment.
I meant SB

 

[jepop]

IMO that night, SB didn't move the damaged zipper pull at all. She pulled the easy one until they met, or nearly met.

JMO

Was there an easy one? I could be remembering wrong but wasn't there the zipper with the paper clip or whatever it was and the other zipper was missing the tab altogether (no paper clip repair)? But that's memory from when state had the CSI photographer zip it up and I could well be mis-remembering. Did the demo just now show a second intact zipper tab? Sorry for so many questions, not sure when I'll be able to catch up and watch myself!

 

[jepop]

I don't know what I expected from the cross exam of SB but it wasn't the little I got, unfortunately. Maybe the state was limited in what it could address, I don't know but I am disappointed.

I expected them to demonstrate and hammer home her lack of credibility and propensity for lying and rightfully so. Jmo. Disappointed too. So much opportunity. If only Alan Jackson...

 

[scapa]

Admittedly I just turned this back on a minute ago and have likely missed some important details, but from what I'm getting they were playing sword-fight with steak knives after she might or might not have cut his steak for him and also refused to have sex on top of the steak and potatoes as he wished and he might have been mad about that or perhaps just didn't like steak and so he stabbed her but then wouldn't let her call 911 and she nearly died and her lips were blue.

Man, if I had a nickel for every time that's happened to me. Definitely believable.

I'm struggling, fortunately, to visualize this one...

 

[Megnut]

Was there an easy one? I could be remembering wrong but wasn't there the zipper with the paper clip or whatever it was and the other zipper was missing the tab altogether (no paper clip repair)? But that's memory from when state had the CSI photographer zip it up and I could well be mis-remembering. Did the demo just now show a second intact zipper tab? Sorry for so many questions, not sure when I'll be able to catch up and watch myself!

She was attempting to demonstrate with the stuck zipper and then the State pulled the easier one, stopping at a point. Asked Sarah if that was the right spot, to which she said sure, rather cavalier-like IMO.

JMO

 

[Izzylizzy]

Did she sit on the suitcase and zip it up while he's in there? moo

No..lol
But she was emotionless, as usual.
I was all for the state getting someone in there but IIRC it wasn't the consensus here.

 

[nodamselindistress]

Prosecutor dfrove me crazy calling the SB videos "movies" - at first I couldn't figure out what he was talking about.

 

[Izzylizzy]

I expected them to demonstrate and hammer home her lack of credibility and propensity for lying and rightfully so. Jmo. Disappointed too. So much opportunity. If only Alan Jackson...

I don't get the prosecution's strategy and came away with not being clear what they were trying to prove beyond a reasonable doubt'.
Can they cross her after the defense is done with her tomorrow?

 

[stripehaven2]

Prosecutor dfrove me crazy calling the SB videos "movies" - at first I couldn't figure out what he was talking about.

“Videotapes” made me chuckle.

 

[Observe_dont_Absorb]

“Videotapes” made me chuckle.

Have they got some really elderly people in the jury or something LOL

 

[Izzylizzy]

Was there an easy one? I could be remembering wrong but wasn't there the zipper with the paper clip or whatever it was and the other zipper was missing the tab altogether (no paper clip repair)? But that's memory from when state had the CSI photographer zip it up and I could well be mis-remembering. Did the demo just now show a second intact zipper tab? Sorry for so many questions, not sure when I'll be able to catch up and watch myself!

I was expecting the prosecution to go into the tortureous death JT experienced being locked in the suitcase and the total disregard she had for that and for his life, especially when he kept calling out her name and telling her that he "couldn't breathe."
She had him falsely imprisoned and the state should have called that out to the jury.
Explained to the jury that his chest and breathing was compromised by the position he was in.
A big missed opportunity IMO.
Then again I am not a prosecutor!

 

[1000MoonsAgo]

I was quite underwhelmed with the cross.

 

[Izzylizzy]

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I was quite underwhelmed with the cross.

You're not alone.

 

[jepop]

I don't get the prosecution's strategy and came away with not being clear what they were trying to prove beyond a reasonable doubt'.
Can they cross her after the defense is done with her tomorrow?

I'm not sure if they can cross her a second time after redirect. Perhaps someone else knows. To satisfy murder 2nd degree I believe they have to prove BARD she left him in there negligently knowing he was likely to die ( can't recall legal wording of the charge), failed to unzip him and deliberately left him there knowing he was running out of air. Any reasonable person would know this amounts to leaving someone to die. I think they should have done more on cross to question her about her malicious feelings of revenge if only to.highlight how her ( expected) denials on the stand would contradict with the video which indicates she was vengeful and wanted to teach him a lesson. Jmo

 

[Observe_dont_Absorb]

IMO that night, SB didn't move the damaged zipper pull at all. She pulled the easy one until they met, or nearly met.

JMO

She demonstrated how quickly and easily she pulled the zipper around in her (bizarre) sudden arm gestures when being interviewed in the police station prior her arrest. At first it's hard to comprehend what she's doing when she very suddenly circles her arm twice at detective CK but in that movement she's showing how far round she went with the zip, really quickly and she shows she didn't pull it the full way over the top and round the corner but just to the top and along before the corner.

 

[Seattle1]

Was there an easy one? I could be remembering wrong but wasn't there the zipper with the paper clip or whatever it was and the other zipper was missing the tab altogether (no paper clip repair)? But that's memory from when state had the CSI photographer zip it up and I could well be mis-remembering. Did the demo just now show a second intact zipper tab? Sorry for so many questions, not sure when I'll be able to catch up and watch myself!

I also understood only one zipper worked but was missing the "pull" and they (SB/JT) planned on filling it with used things to go to a donation box. And then Owens had a melt down because the paperclip may have been attached the wrong direction for defense demonstration purposes versus when the state presented the suitcase which I think was without the paperclip! Judge had to take him by the hand and ask if there was an objection...

 

[Lilibet]

I was expecting the prosecution to go into the tortureous death JT experienced being locked in the suitcase and the total disregard she had for that and for his life, especially when he kept calling out her name and telling her that he "couldn't breathe."
She had him falsely imprisoned and the state should have called that out to the jury.
Explained to the jury that his chest and breathing was compromised by the position he was in.
A big missed opportunity IMO.
Then again I am not a prosecutor!

They can use their closing argument for all of that with good effect.