On what grounds is that likely?
Thanks for the considered reply.
(I note you snipped the first line of my post and other content in your reply without noting that you did so. I would kindly ask you not to do that and note snips.)
To recap - I also said this.
"While I agree they could have dismissed M2, I think it's understandable why the top brass did not want to do so. "
The CW has assembled at least a case to answer. Certainly the Judge found no grounds to dismiss, and I doubt it will be dismissed at half time. So unless you think the DA has decided to corruptly prosecute someone they actually know is innocent, I don't see my opinion as controversial. The DA likely believes the defendant guilty based on the case before the Court. Whether we think the DA
should have retried and the relative strength of the case is a different question.
Please provide a link to support this given of " the scorched earth tactics of the defense and it's surrogates...'.
Your use of emotive and obscuring language doesn't assist in understanding what is actually meant here. IMO
Similarly, please provide an approved source to support your contention that Karen Read's defense has attacked witnesses and other officers, assuming you are not referring to the correct and proper cross examinations of officers and witnesses during trial x1.
The defence has not merely accused law enforcement of an incompetent investigation. I assume I don't need to post links to the fact that on cross this week, and in pretrial motions and in trial one, AJ openly accused a retired police officer and an ATF officer of murder, based on what the Judge recently characterised as
barely sufficient grounds.
In addition AJ claims that two witnesses, Kerrie and Jen, have conspired to fit up the defendant, and that at least two officers, MP and YB, conspired to frame the defendant. This is before we get to the insinuations against various other officers and first responders.
Further to these in court allegations, the attacks were further made by the defendant in multiple briefed interviews including recently
in Vanity Fair. So while she is constitutionally entitled to make such allegations, it can't come as a great shock that her trial strategy combined with efforts at publicity have led to a re-trial rather than the dropping of Murder 2.
Although your contention is obscuring, if you are referring to TB please provide an approved source to show that Karen Read's defense was/is involved in any of the charges/ civil suits he currently faces.
I won't go in to that as it is off topic on the thread. However on topic I will note that Hank Brennan successfully obtained communications between the defendant and TB for this trial, and that there were also
communications between Yannetti and AJ and TB which he did not obtain. I don't know why they were communicating, but Prosecutor Cosgrove and the DA do know that, and I don't think it is a leap to say it is an aggravating factor.
I'll just speak for myself here, rather than make an unsupported statement about how supporters of Karen Read feel.
Personally, it's a no brainer to me that that the "DA and other key leadership are convinced of her guilt" and therefore they find the decision "supportable". That's not difficult for me to hear at all and you aren't telling me anything new here. Jmo
I'll only note that the above is speculation on your part and I don't see anything here supporting these assumptions about what was and is going on in the mind of the DA.
Other than that, IMO the CW saw ARCCA's independent findings and ignored them. Personally, I find asking why that was so, to be the salient and pertinent question. However, everyone to their own. Jmo
I doubt the CW ignored ARCCA's findings as you say. They would have needed to consider whether the report fatally undermined their case when the Touhy dump dropped for starters.
And personally i think it highly unlikely the DA would move to a re-trial if he thought there was any real possibility the FBI might step in and arrest the lead investigators. It's hard to read the tea leaves on anything DOJ due to their policies, but it is also pretty clear there have been no signs of life since the grand jury days. One can usually rely on suspects/witnesses to leak something if there were action.
All the above is my opinion only.
