Thing is, there were others on social media earlier this year who claimed to have the crime scene photos.
BH is one. GF, CT, RL also.
I don’t know what to think, to be honest. It’s just so weird that some of their descriptions seem similar to the descriptions in the memorandum.
JMO:
FWIW, I don't think the Court removes the investigation's crime scene photos from allowed evidence simply b/c they were leaked. It's critical evidence and it would harm both Defense and Prosecution to block them as fact evidence.
RA has an entire Defense team; he has more than one counsel to lean on should Baldwin be dismissed.
Just another bump in the road to justice.
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MOO i believe the victims deserve to add their testimony about the crime against them by their condition.
Agree.
We probably need some WS attorneys to explain the process and possibilities. IANAL, but in either pre-trial or trial phases, the defense can make motions to have the leaked evidence thrown out and argue for a mistrial based on prejudicial evidence that was leaked. On the MS podcast from 3 days ago (the first of 2 so far they've made about this incident) they said they viewed all the leaked photos, there were a lot, all graphic of the crime scene. They said all were very prejudicial against RA, so this is bad.
The information is from the latest episode of MS, released earlier today.
Murder Sheet
The Murder Sheet is a weekly true crime podcast hosted by journalist Áine Cain and attorney Kevin Greenlee. We take a journalistic approach to covering true crime. We have broken national news on major cases, like the Delphi murders and the Burger Chef murders. We also cover plenty of other...
I'm listening to it again. Their explanation is so garbled, its difficult to sort out. I'm trying, but they keep losing me when they talk about making a list of items in your refrigerator, etc. Not relevant. I'll try to listen to the rest.
"Mark" sent the photos to MS podcast. "M" was someone who leaked from the defense team. He leaked it to R, who then shared it to "Mark" and some female. It's around the 11:00 minute mark. I stand corrected and retract my earlier statement that it came from LE. That said, it doesn't change my view of how bad this leak is to the case.
Considering "M" leaked the information to the MS podcast instead of calling LE is not good. JMO, it seems like this information was deliberately leaked by the defense team and done so in a way that would get the crime scene evidence out to the public. For some leakers, it seems to be a way to become popular on true crime social media and the defense team wanted to take advantage. JMO SMH
Can the state successfully prosecute RA after this? Is there any way for the Feds to take over? Are there any federal charges that can be brought in the event Indiana's case ends in mistrial or acquittal? Will the judge finally issue a wider gag order and enforce it sufficiently to protect the evidence that's left to present in this trial?
CourtTV says it was 7 photos that were leaked. Apologies if you all have discussed this previously. I usually stop following cases when they're in the pre-trial phase, so I haven't followed this one lately.
Graphic crime scene photos leak could derail Delphi Murders trial
An unexpected court hearing set for Thursday could cover the latest crime scene photos leak in the Delphi Murders case.
They refer to it as a "catastrophic leak".
This makes me worry more about Rex Heuermann's upcoming trial. His defense team seems very tricky, along with the attorneys who are representing his wife. The prosecutor has talked about evidence he thinks isn't important to the case that may later turn out to be important. The judge needs to issue a very broad and strict gag order in that case, too.
IMO, the defense definitely cannot successfully argue that crime scene photos should be thrown out just because they were leaked (especially since their office seems to be the source of the leak). I also can't imagine why they'd want the photos thrown out since their current theory of the case seems to depend on the jury seeing those photos and agreeing with their interpretation of how the sticks were placed, what the marking on the tree meant, etc.We probably need some WS attorneys to explain the process and possibilities. IANAL, but in either pre-trial or trial phases, the defense can make motions to have the leaked evidence thrown out and argue for a mistrial based on prejudicial evidence that was leaked. On the MS podcast from 3 days ago (the first of 2 so far they've made about this incident) they said they viewed all the leaked photos, there were a lot, all graphic of the crime scene. They said all were very prejudicial against RA, so this is bad.
The information is from the latest episode of MS, released earlier today.
Murder Sheet
The Murder Sheet is a weekly true crime podcast hosted by journalist Áine Cain and attorney Kevin Greenlee. We take a journalistic approach to covering true crime. We have broken national news on major cases, like the Delphi murders and the Burger Chef murders. We also cover plenty of other...
I'm listening to it again. Their explanation is so garbled, its difficult to sort out. I'm trying, but they keep losing me when they talk about making a list of items in your refrigerator, etc. Not relevant. I'll try to listen to the rest.
"Mark" sent the photos to MS podcast. "M" was someone who leaked from the defense team. He leaked it to R, who then shared it to "Mark" and some female. It's around the 11:00 minute mark. I stand corrected and retract my earlier statement that it came from LE. That said, it doesn't change my view of how bad this leak is to the case.
Considering "M" leaked the information to the MS podcast instead of calling LE is not good. JMO, it seems like this information was deliberately leaked by the defense team and done so in a way that would get the crime scene evidence out to the public. For some leakers, it seems to be a way to become popular on true crime social media and the defense team wanted to take advantage. JMO SMH
Can the state successfully prosecute RA after this? Is there any way for the Feds to take over? Are there any federal charges that can be brought in the event Indiana's case ends in mistrial or acquittal? Will the judge finally issue a wider gag order and enforce it sufficiently to protect the evidence that's left to present in this trial?
They can be thrown out if they were released to the public prior to the trial, because they are prejudicial against the defendant.
Yes, for me, the logical conclusion is that the leak is defense-related, as the talk of seen photos began after the defense team was appointed. The only exception was RL, who began rambling in 2017, likely sourced from rumors that may have started with searchers. Seems to me that in their memorandum, defense capitalized on rumors of one of the wild theories, and have bolstered their theory with photo leaks that ‘crept’ into social media.
