GUILTY FL - Sarah Boone, 42, charged with murdering boyfriend Jorge Torres, 42, by leaving him locked in suitcase, Winter Park, Feb 2020 #3

[sasha17]

(Paraphrasing)

Judge: Owens, you can do a new deposition now in open court on this issue. Proceed.
Owens: I'm sorry?
Judge: The court will oversee a deposition now. You may proceed.
Owens: Right now?
Judge: Yes. Go ahead.

 

[arielilane]

@StephBuffamonte

Just an observation from the courtroom in the suitcase murder trial. I'm sitting behind accused murderer #SarahBoone and I can see that Sarah took off her shoes and is sitting in her chair barefoot.


10:13 AM · Oct 24, 2024

 

[sasha17]

Suddenly it feels like this doctor is on trial.

 

[Megnut]

Doctor maintains she answered all the Defense's questions at the time and formed her opinion, alongside many opinions.

Judge says her don't strike the witness.

Owens continues his deposition ...

"Are you going to give any other opinions we don't know about?"

State objects, overbroad.

Owens continues --

If he reviews all 81 pages with her....

 

[Megnut]

Suddenly it feels like this doctor is on trial.

Suddenly it feels like somebody is facing the bar and forgot to study.

JMO

 

[nodamselindistress]

Owens had a hard time getting her to answer whether or not SB had BSS. She hemmed and hawed before finally saying yes.

 

[arielilane]

The jury is coming back in.

 

[Megnut]

Well, Owens whittled his 3 hours requested deposition to about 5 minutes.

Judge rules, allows in trial hearing.

Not striking the witness, calls that Draconian.

Limits her to the opinions on the pages cited iiuc.

 

[arielilane]

I just got to say ... good grief... moo

 

[arielilane]

Sidebar

 

[Megnut]

Owens had a hard time getting her to answer whether or not SB had BSS. She hemmed and hawed before finally saying yes.

Huh? How? Not OP, the witness.

Didn't she say BSS is a subset of PTSD but she didn't have enough information to diagnose SB with PTSD? So how could she have BSS?

My head hurts.

 

[Megnut]

Jury back in.

State opens with asking to strike the last answer.

Judge calls side bar.

In the last minute, I think we've had three side bars.

 

[Megnut]

This has to be giving the jury the impression there is something wrong with the WITNESS.

They don't know what the attorneys are wrangling over.

Me, I need a V-8.

 

[Megnut]

There will be poetic justice IMO if this all comes down, for the jury, to SB's state of mind as she zipped the suitcase, and her state of mind is established by her own talkity talk words.

Oh, man. Back to recess.

 

[sasha17]

And again, the jury is sent out.

We're definitely not getting to closing arguments this afternoon.

 

[CHEL]

This is insane.

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1849457651718996311

 

[nodamselindistress]

Huh? How? Not OP, the witness.

That was earlier. I am talking about the Richardson hearing.

 

[sasha17]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1849457651718996311

Those students probably thought they were coming to observe a normal trial and instead, they're getting THIS!

 

[Megnut]

Can we back up a second?

Why DID SB zip him in? He couldn't possibly have agreed to that. It wasn't laughing and having a good time when she was zipping him in, regardless of why or how he got in the suitcase.

It was punitive.

She batted his hands.

She intended for him Not To Get Out.

She lied about laughing and having a good time AND NO ONE CHALLENGED HER on that.

JT isn't here to testify to HIS opinion of whether it was fun and games to be zipped in.

Zipping him in showed depraved indifference.

NO ONE wants to be zipped into a suitcase.

She zipped him in, she left him there, he died as a direct result of her actions/inactions. She tool advantage of him because HE had no self-defense.

Why is the State making this more complicated than that????