NM - Tera Chavez, 26, found dead in her Los Lunas home, 22 Oct 2007 - #1

[Jewels53]

For a moment I thought this expert was saying he talked at the International House of Pancakes.

:floorlaugh:

 

[NCEast]

I bet had the prosecution grabbed this man first, and he was up there testifying for the state, his entire testimony would be different. I'm telling you, these expert witnesses are simply . They may be nice people but they tailor their testimony depending on who is paying them.

 

[NCEast]

So his wife may be visually impaired.....

 

[Thundar]

Ok that was strange......the prosecution got a go at the CV before the testimony started?

 

[CUCKOOHEAD]

The expert just admitted to no formal education? Self taught expert with 30 years being a cop. I wonder if a person's credentials allow them membership into all these clubs he belongs to or if he could pay a membership fee and become a member.

 

[Jewels53]

The jury came in about 10:15 Mountain time, so about 45 minutes ago. Yes they have been listening to this boring info.

 

[CUCKOOHEAD]

In other trials I have watched usually the defense or prosecution reads off the CV in their hands and asks questions to the expert about it! So in this case I would say this way is better! I would hate to have the jury listen to defense mumbling the entire CV off......LOL

:floorlaugh: no doubt!

 

[CUCKOOHEAD]

So his wife may be visually impaired.....

So who was walking him up to the stand and why did he need assistance if he can read and see?

 

[CUCKOOHEAD]

If this expert has to look at his notes when he is giving a definition I have doubts about his 'expertise'. He should be able to rattle off the definition of 'staging the scene'.

 

[NCEast]

The expert just admitted to no formal education? Self taught expert with 30 years being a cop. I wonder if a person's credentials allow them membership into all these clubs he belongs to or if he could pay a membership fee and become a member.

I may be wrong but I thought he said he graduated from Uni. of VA with a degree in psychology.

 

[CUCKOOHEAD]

This expert says with staging the person gets a third party to check on his loved one. I just saw Brett Seacat, the cop who ALSO found his wife dead of a gunshot.

 

[Jewels53]

So you don't have to stage a dead body. She was in a sound sleep or caught off guard and a gun stuck in her mouth. I am a lay person and I can see it happening.

 

[NCEast]

So you don't have to stage a dead body. She was in a sound sleep or caught off guard and a gun stuck in her mouth. I am a lay person and I can see it happening.

What about the cold medicine that was mentioned in the civil deposition? If she were partially knocked out from that it would have been easy to stick a gun in her mouth and fire, therefore no attack, no bruising, etc. Part of his testimony kind of helped the prosecution--no theft, no breaking and entering, no signs of an intruder.

 

[CUCKOOHEAD]

So you don't have to stage a dead body. She was in a sound sleep or caught off guard and a gun stuck in her mouth. I am a lay person and I can see it happening.

She also had a lot of the cough medicine in her system. That would make it easier for someone to stick that gun in her mouth and not have her instantly react by jumping up or pushing at the gun. Her reflexes were impaired by the cough medicine that Levi bought (didn't he buy 4 bottles of the stuff just before Tera was killed?)

 

[Thundar]

This expert says with staging the person gets a third party to check on his loved one. I just saw Brett Seacat, the cop who ALSO found his wife dead of a gunshot.

Mr. Seacat did NOT wait long enough to call 911 tho. He thought more evidence would be destroyed......I am surprised that Mr. Chavez did not get someone else to go and check on his "wife" when his mother said she could not reach her. Maybe he wanted to make sure he had "staged" correctly?

 

[NCEast]

Maybe he has had a light stroke and thus the need for the cane? He seems to be reading/seeing his notes just fine.

 

[Thundar]

This witness does have vision problems....at least I would surmise he did with the white cane and feeling his way around the courtroom there!

 

[NCEast]

I'm really not in the mood for technical problems today. It's just going to prolong this man's testimony and they won't have court again until next Tuesday.

 

[Jewels53]

I'm really not in the mood for technical problems today. It's just going to prolong this man's testimony and they won't have court again until next Tuesday.

They flew this witness in, so I doubt they would send him home without his testimony. Remember they have already spent around $36 k on him if I remember right.

 

[NCEast]

This witness does have vision problems....at least I would surmise he did with the white cane and feeling his way around the courtroom there!

Brings to mind something I saw last week. I was 'people watching' in a parking lot waiting for my husband to run in and get a prescription. A new, bright red VW Beetle convertible pulled up across from me---I want one just like it so that's why I was so attentive--and a somewhat older man, probably late 60s got out of the drivers side, extended his white cane, and began bouncing the stick across the parking lot and into the store. That bothered the heck out of me--either he should not have been driving or he is pulling the wool over somebody's eyes for whatever weird reason. I have thought about him probably 200 times since,,,,and wanting his car too.