GUILTY MI - Jane Bashara, 56, dies in contract killing, Grosse Pointe Park, 25 Jan 2012 #5

[Bravo]

Sorry I have not been posting Trial. Thank You to those that have. I finally got my new work laptop. I thought I was good to go until I tried live streaming. Not enabling. So until I connect with the Computer Geek I am back on this old crappy desktop. It freezes and shuts down if i try to go back and forth. I'm sure by the time work gets a Geek here or at my work this Trial will be deliberating. So thanks to those posting.

 

[CarolinaMoon]

I've followed, although silently. Defense closing was brilliant. Their argument is essentially "so what?" if BB lived off his wife, if BB was into kinky BDSM, so what if he had mistresses, so what this, so what that. He loved his wife and she loved him, they were happy, happy, happy!

As for the BB cohorts who weren't indicted or charged with perjury... so what? IMHO, it just proved to me for the final time that BB mostly hung out with a very morally dubious crowd. "Birds of a feather..."

Heck, Jane stayed with him because she'd lose EVERYTHING she had worked so hard for. BB sucked the life out of her even before he arranged the final act. JMHO, :moo:, etc.

 

[Grammy717]

Wow! Case is in People Magazine this week.

http://www.people.com/article/robert-bashara-shocking-double-life-murder

 

[Bravo]

Not seeing anything as far as streaming today. I have to leave by 10 this a.m. If i see something I will post

 

[Chelly]

Hi I am going to try to catch up on tweets:
George Hunter ‏@GeorgeHunter_DN 55m55 minutes ago Detroit, MI
Good morning from the #BobBashara trial. Lots of laughter from the jury room.


George Hunter ‏@GeorgeHunter_DN 36m36 minutes ago Detroit, MI
Bob, Judge and jury are in the courtroom for #bobbashara trial.
Judge to jurors: "Well, guess what? Today is the last day for 4 of you."




George Hunter ‏@GeorgeHunter_DN 34m34 minutes ago
Bob stared down Jane's sister, Julie Rowe, who didn't look at him.

George Hunter ‏@GeorgeHunter_DN 33m33 minutes ago Detroit, MI
Moran saying Bob sought someone to "rough up a tenant."

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 34m 34 minutes ago
Bob talked in July, 2011, about "lifting the rock." His house, his hiding, and his wife were the rock, Moran said.

 

[Chelly]

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 32m 32 minutes ago
"Basher basher" again brought up - who Gentz's online female friend testifed he told her was paying him to harm someone.

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 31m 31 minutes ago
Moran: "You know that the defendant reached out to (Steve) Tibaudo (to have Gentz killed)."

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 31m 31 minutes ago
"It is suggested yesterday, for the first time ever, that the reason Mr. Bashara wanted to kill Mr. Gentz, is revenge."

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 31m 31 minutes ago
"But..that's not what the defendant said." Bob's statement when pleading guilty is being shown.

 

[Chelly]

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 24m 24 minutes ago
Moran "Out of the mouth of the defendant, he's telling you he knows the law of conspiracy," after Bob told Tibaudo it was conspiracy "again"

George Hunter
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Moran said the defense's only argument about Bob and his cellmate: "He's a white man in prison who needs protection."

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 18m 18 minutes ago
The Bashara case has been highlighted in People Magazine. Looks like the reporter got info from local papers:


George Hunter
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Moran said Jane was "a rock in (Bob's) shoe."

 

[Chelly]

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 19m 19 minutes ago
Moran: "An innocent person does not hire someone to kill someone else."


George Hunter
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Moran now discussing motive. "We don't have to prove motive, but there's a ton of motive in this case."


George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 16m 16 minutes ago
Moran pointing out that a few weeks before the murder, Bob was at a wedding for Rachel's daughter.



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Bob wanted "two slaves instead of one in his house on Kensington," Moran said.

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 16m 16 minutes ago
"The fact is, ladies and gentleman, that is is cheaper to kill her than divorce."

 

[Chelly]

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 20m 20 minutes ago
Moran: "If she's dead, he gets it all."

Lillian objected. Judge said there's no testimony that he would inherit everything.

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 20m 20 minutes ago
Judge struck that remark

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 19m 19 minutes ago
Moran: "The will gives him everything that's not in a trust. And Mrs. Bashara knew not to trust him with money."

 

[Chelly]

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 19m 19 minutes ago
Moran: "The fact is, he was obsessed with Rachel Gillett."

George Hunter
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Moran saying defense argument that Bob was just playing Rachel is not true, because of all he went through to get a house w her.


George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 16m 16 minutes ago
"The reality of his wife and his mistress were on a collision course, because he didn't want to lose Rachel. The defendant was obsessed."

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 8m 8 minutes ago
Moran asking why Gentz would call Bob 22-23 times the day before the murder. "The phone records don't lie."

 

[Chelly]

George Hunter
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Moran: "We know the murder happened in the garage...because the defendant says so." Bob said he wouldn't kill someone in his garage

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 8m 8 minutes ago
Moran said Jane's DNA was on the garage floor and door.

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 7m 7 minutes ago
Judge alerted Moran he has 20 minutes left.

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 6m 6 minutes ago
Moran played video. "That's Joe Gentz."
Judge: "No, that's Scott Lewis @scottlewispi

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 6m 6 minutes ago
Moran: "The defendant was the one who was the puppet master, pulling the strings of Joe Gentz."

 

[CA Lady]

Finally found a livestream:

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/27603280/closing-arguments-to-wrap-in-bob-bashara-trial

 

[Chelly]

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 5m 5 minutes ago
Moran asking what motive Gentz had for moving Jane's body.


George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 3m 3 minutes ago
Moran: "What man would make his own elderly mother hide a gun for him? The same kind of man who'd use his son to get the remains of his wife

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...as a bargaining chip."

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 3m 3 minutes ago
"What kind of man has two women come to the marital bed and have sex with them while his wife is out of town?"

 

[Chelly]

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 3m 3 minutes ago
“Is that what a man does who’s in love with his wife? No. It’s the ultimate act of betrayal.”

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"There was no rush to judgment. The defendant is the one who lied to police."

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 2m 2 minutes ago
Moran saying JJ had no connection to the case.

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 2m 2 minutes ago
Moran said JJ is a "red herring"

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 18s 18 seconds ago
Moran: "You know who there's not been a lot of talk about? Jane Bashara."

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 3s 3 seconds ago
Bob "was writing another story; a story about Rachel Gillett."

 

[Chelly]

George Hunter
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Jane's remains: "The ultimate act of disgrace is that he uses the remains of his wife to try to get a better deal in this case.

George Hunter @GeorgeHunter_DN · 2m 2 minutes ago
"On behalf of the prosecution team, we just ask you for justice for Jane Bashara."

Moran is done. Short break, then jury instructions.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

No sound on WDIV live stream. Thanks for the updates. Hope the jury doesn't take days to render a verdict.

 

[Chelly]

No sound on WDIV live stream. Thanks for the updates. Hope the jury doesn't take days to render a verdict.

tomorrow, i hope

 

[Chelly]

http://www.wildabouttrial.com/one_off/live-stream-1/

judge giving jury inst live stream now

 

[Darkman00]

Mandi Wright ‏@DetroitMandi 2h2 hours ago
#BobBashara licks his fingers as he leafs through jury instructions. pic.twitter.com/jfLq3awn5s

 

[Darkman00]

Mandi Wright ‏@DetroitMandi 2h2 hours ago
Wayne County 3rd Circuit Court Judge Vonda Evans thanks the jury before instruction #BobBashara pic.twitter.com/efOaEKlVQ5