Hello everybody! Am I ever late getting here this morning. I had the worst night ever--with awful storms, weather related phone calls after midnight, dogs that are scared to death of thunder. I moved us from room to room several times trying to calm them down--they are small dog breeds who don't appear to be afraid of a 225 pound human but storms scare the stuffing out of them. I got 2.5 hours of sleep, got up for a few hours early this morning, then laid back down for a couple of hours. I feel like myself again, my blood sugar is back to normal, thank goodness.
I had Mrs. Serna on my mind much of the time I couldn't sleep. While I appreciate her willingness to provide insight and answers, it's a first for me that a defense attorney's wife ever came on here to interact with us.
I do want to remind her that most of us have been at it, that is, watching and following trials, for many years. We have a good feel for what's what. All of my adult life has been pro-law enforcement and prosecution because that was my career in my very early adult life. We are not lonely housewives who seek out these cases because of boredom. Websleuths is filled with professional people in the legal field, the medical field, other highly educated career paths. Heck, I have a Ph.D--my screen name could be DrNCEast if that means anything, it certainly doesn't to me. I have an adopted daughter who is an attorney in the Attorney General's office in Raleigh. We all have our personal reasons for being here that matter to us individually....we are not here to beat up anybody....we just want a fair outcome for the victims. We basically get pulled into these cases because we want justice--some victims who may be local to us, others who are not.
Seemingly, there are more and more cases involving dirty cops and those drive me crazy. There should never, ever be a dirty cop....but there are unethical doctors, CPAs, lawyers....the list goes on and on. We are a watchdog group in a sense, and we do have excellent sleuthing abilities. Look at everything we pulled up on the various players in this Chavez case....the were lots and lots of questionable criminal acts committed by LC's relatives that could not be brought out in this trial. I wish the jury could have been aware of everything we discovered that they were not privy to. Had they seen the whole picture regarding LC's connections to his relatives' crimes, and how he may have taken a few lessons from how they were carried out, the verdict in this trial could have possibly been guilty instead of not guilty. Who knows.....
So, while I appreciate Mrs. Serna's willingness to try to explain to us the ins and outs of what we don't know or may not understand, I am just ready to move on. Nothing we find out at this moment in time will change the verdict.
I know in reading through the posts this morning (too rapidly--will go back over them again after another cup of coffee) several upcoming trials have been mentioned. Let me remind everybody that the Haze/Hayes murder trial in Durham is scheduled for next month and it will be a darn good one so try to squeeze it into your planning.
I'm going to go back and re-read everybody's posts/thoughts/ideas again in a moment, I need more coffee.
I hope each of you is well and that this blasted heat isn't leaking into your house as it seems to be mine. I am so looking forward to October and the cool, crisp air of fall!
