Hey everyone.
Just wanted to drop in and post a few thoughts...
First -- THANKS OKIEGRANNY!
Next - couple of random thoughts --
Initially in the courtoom - I thought that TM looked 'better' than at the last hearing - and thought she had clearly been instructed to 'chill out' during the hearing and not be so casual like at the last hearing ---- that was UNTIL she decided to speak up and cut the Judge off as he was speaking!
I've tried to noodle through where her atty is in all of this. He addressed the court with a statement - something along the lines of the fact he represents defendants all the time - tries to be very honest with the court -- he can't 'always' stand up and say he feels his client is innocent - but because of the 'lack of evidence' and his 'many conversations with TM' he believes she is innocent. That tells me that TM is playing her atty? Didn't someone state somewhere there was a friendship/connection of some sort with the Caison family and this attorney? Why put his reputation in this area on the line this early on in the game with a statement like that? Was this bond attempt because he feels a heavy weight for TM's mother (lost her husband, responsible for 3 kids?). Attorneys (IMO) often take things forward for 'reasons' - such as trying to get more information - or to circumvent other things - or to posture before another defendant's attorney makes a move? I feel like he isn't an unintelligent person by any means - he had to know (and I think would have advised her UNLESS there's another reason for this hearing etc) that the judge would see right through what's going on?
TM's refusing to see an OB/GYN to confirm? Refusing normal pre-natal care? I truly think Judge John was letting them know that he's pretty unhappy that if there is a child - that this is how it's being taken care of. I think it's why he put it out there that he wants EVERYTHING that is offered to her in writing by the detention center staff - and he wants it in writing - that she refused or complied or whatever.
Does her attorney not realize how bad this looks - especially since there's not (by all evidence thus far) going to be a baby in a few months? Was this some sort of manipulation towards SM?
Court cases often become a game of chess - and that's what yesterday felt like to me?
I also wonder, how much of this was just to try and get more information out to the public, because of the gag order? I say this because her attorney referenced an 8 page memo send 'sealed' to the court and solicitor regarding this issue and the hearing. I feel like the judge and the solicitor kind of implied that he didn't need to go into the details on that memo IN COURT because they had all read it and understood it (meaning they could've had the hearing without details being put out there for the public to hear) yet her attorney clearly wanted it out there. It seems to me her attorney is not happy about this gag order - and again, is 'making a chess move' for something down the road?
I've got a little more detail on when the pregnancy tests were, etc, but none of it really makes the situation any different. One thing this 'pregnancy' has done for tm is -- she's been 'out of jail' and at hospitals quite a bit since March. I wonder if theres been any way she could have communication with family or others during these 'visits'?
Ok - just thoughts off the top of my head as I sit here and have my first cup of coffee ....and yes I said "FIRST CUP" ---- so that means if anything I wrote ^^upthere^^ doesn't make sense - you now know why! LOL
