VERDICT WATCH GA - Quinton Simon - Missing From Home - Mom ARRESTED- Savannah #5

[iamshadow21]

We're watching a promotional/PSA video about how a landfill is constructed and monitored.

 

[shotgun09]

Thank you CHEL! I was dying to know what was said!

Same here! It looks like Mr " I'm embarrassed " ( Red) didn't quite make it up to the stand, before the lunch break was called. Hopefully these reporters will be quick when they return.

 

[tlcya]

She reads a series of texts between the two in the early morning hours of Sept. 27, including a video Simon sent to Craig of herself masturbating.

She reads other messages between the two about implied sexual encounters.

12:50 p.m. – The defense cross-examines.

12:54 p.m. – Lemmons reads messages from Simon to Craig asking about drugs, specifically Percocet and marijuana.

12:58 p.m. – The state redirects. Lemmons agrees with the state that this shows Craig was sleeping with Simon and supplying her drugs.
https://www.wsav.com/news/local-news/day-7-of-the-leilani-simon-murder-trial/

and there we have it.

 

[iamshadow21]

Trucks are weighed in, goes to the 'tipping floor' to eject the load. Some trucks don't need to be weighed out, some do.

The tipping field trash gets bulldozed and compacted. The machines have 'cleat wheels' which spread and pulverise the waste. When an area gets filled to the regulated height, the cell is closed out and covered with soil and grass.

 

[iamshadow21]

Compaction is important, because the greater the compaction and density of the trash, the more they can fit in before needing to close and cap that area.

 

[iamshadow21]

The area is covered with a layer of soil every day by law.

Witness is reviewing the scale tickets for the garbage truck they believed contained Quinton's body. They're entered as an exhibit, and the witness is talking through the individual data points and what they mean.

 

[iamshadow21]

We're looking at an overhead/satellite image of the landfill.

He was able to identify the cell where that garbage would have been deposited, and was asked by LE to stop adding garbage to that cell, and they complied.

 

[iamshadow21]

The landfill provided two heavy equipment operators, the equipment, and a manager to assist with the search. They were moving the trash and spreading it out. They were not required to help, but did it because it was the right thing to do, basically. They helped the actual search for about a week.

The whole lot of changes etc. to their procedure and operations cost them $70-80k.

 

[fsngruv]

She reads a series of texts between the two in the early morning hours of Sept. 27, including a video Simon sent to Craig of herself masturbating.

She reads other messages between the two about implied sexual encounters.

12:50 p.m. – The defense cross-examines.

12:54 p.m. – Lemmons reads messages from Simon to Craig asking about drugs, specifically Percocet and marijuana.

12:58 p.m. – The state redirects. Lemmons agrees with the state that this shows Craig was sleeping with Simon and supplying her drugs.
https://www.wsav.com/news/local-news/day-7-of-the-leilani-simon-murder-trial/

and there we have it.

Right! And it appears the routine was for her to stop in earlier for DY and meet up with CW around 1am and staying gone for a very long time. Possibly something was interfering with her plans? Not that they have to prove motive but I've always wondered why that night was the night she snapped. I can kinda see why now.

 

[iamshadow21]

Cross.

Hilliard asking about other landfills in the area.

Asking about how many trucks come and go every day from his facility. Asking if both commercial and private household waste come to the landfill. Four to five hundred trucks a day.

Asking if 'anyone can come in the facility and dump'. He says yes.

Just one landfill cell operating at any one time. Only takes Georgia waste.

Asks how long they take to fill a cell. He says two to three years. They'd been using that area roughly two years at that time.

(Don't know where Hilliard is going with this, it's only making the searchers seem more heroic for finding Quinton.)

 

[iamshadow21]

Redirect.

Clarifies that the specific area that Quinton could be was not the whole cell area, but a '50x50' area. Quinton was found in this area.

Recross.

Asking about the bulldozers moving the waste and the compactor spreading it. About the procedure of covering, dozing, compacting, covering, rinse and repeat.

The witness is excused.

 

[CHEL]

2:24 p.m. – Court resumes. The state says they hope to rest their case Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning.

Stokes says court will begin at 10 a.m. on Wednesday.

 

[MsMarple]

Good morning! Such an odd day today. I still don’t get why prosecutor Dean argued that the drug dealer’s testimony be conducted without cameras rolling. Dean said he’s there under compulsion and has been granted immunity in exchange for his testimony.

Hilliard argued to broadcast the testimony but the judge sided with the prosecution. All I can figure is that the drug dealer wanted to be off camera for obvious reasons.

Remember how the testimony about Leilani’s affair with the drug dealer was excluded initially but changed to included after Hilliard “opened the door” during his cross a couple days ago?

I’m late as usual and am up to testimony from detective Lemmons who’s discussing texts between Leilani and drug dealer.

 

[iamshadow21]

I'm having to let the short breaks play out because it's impossible to precisely skip ahead with my phone app, very frustrating. I found the beginning of Lemmons, but I wanted to watch the arguments from both sides about the other witnesses, so I had to skip back, so I'm just staring at that Georgia seal again.

 

[iamshadow21]

Okay, back on.

I found the judge signing the motion for derivative immunity, I don't know if there was earlier stuff I couldn't find.

State has made a motion to not broadcast certain testimony. Objecting to any recording or broadcasting of any testimony of Craig Westin.

Hilliard doesn't think there's a good reason like the previous two witnesses (who were respectively a minor and a narcotics investigator). Hilliard doesn't think embarrassment is a good reason for exclusion. He thinks the immunity is cover enough for the witness.

 

[MsMarple]

I'm having to let the short breaks play out because it's impossible to precisely skip ahead with my phone app, very frustrating. I found the beginning of Lemmons, but I wanted to watch the arguments from both sides about the other witnesses, so I had to skip back, so I'm just staring at that Georgia seal again.

I’d like your take on it. ETA: Frank W? I missed that part.

ETA 2: I think maybe Craig Westin? AKA Red the drug dealer.

 

[MsMarple]

Yep, Craig W was just called and camera is no longer streaming.

 

[iamshadow21]

Dean's counter argument is that he is a private citizen who is being compelled to testify about sexual and criminal matters for which he will never be tried.

Hilliard counter argues that catering to his embarrassment is treating him uniquely compared to every other witness and person in the court. "I don't see why we should make an exception. He's not that special."

Judge is not going to require Mr Westin to testify with the cameras on. She requires that cameras not roll or record. But it's still an open courtroom with members of the media and public present who are allowed to report on what they see and hear.

 

[iamshadow21]

I’d like your take on it. ETA: Frank W? I missed that part.

ETA 2: I think maybe Craig Westin? AKA Red the drug dealer.

Yeah, I was trying to hear Dean speaking very quietly, thankyou, I will correct.

 

[iamshadow21]

Det. Marian Lemmons back on the stand.