Trial Thread - 9 May 2012 Judge to give Jury Instructions

[robynhood]

RaffertyLFP Gowdey said McClintic had no reason to falsely accuse Rafferty and she cooperated with police

 

[Sailor Bug]

Gowdey challenges jurors to find her motive to implicate Rafferty in the crime.

RaffertyLFP: Gowdey said McClintic tried her best after confession to help police "She helped police even though it was powerful evidence against her"

 

[Shasta]

I'm a lurker, but found my old password because I'm busting to note two things:

In Derstine's cross-examination of McClintic, he "suggested to her" that she presented Tori as a gift to Rafferty and that Tori was taken for a random drug debt. But that Rafferty refused.

Does this theory not mean that Rafferty - by his own lawyer's admission - knew that the child was kidnapped from the get-go?

And since in Canada, a person can be found guilty of first degree murder if it happens during a kidnapping - his own lawyer implicated him....?

[I noted that Derstine backed away from that theory somewhat during his closing...]

Also -I hate to chime in with such a distressing detail, but there was one single detail in McClintic's confession to Smythe that made me believe her story. I don't imagine it's something that will come up in the trial, because it is not something a lawyer would want to go anywhere with...

But... when McClintic was describing what happened, she said MR was ... please god forgive me... "preparing" himself (with his hand, down his pants....) as he drove into the secluded spot.... I thought to myself, this is a horrifying detail that could never, never have been "just thought up."

JMO....
It's such a sick detail, and yet, it rings so true, if you dare imagine the horror that allegedly happened there.

Welcome GeorgetheCat! yes, MTR's lawyer implicated him from the start and yes, you can't just make this stuff up. Some of TLM's horrifying and revolting testimony rings true, sadly.

 

[~n/t~]

Steven D'Souza ‏ @cbcsteve
Crown shows McClintic's seemingly normal letter to #Rafferty as showing she can be a different person depending on her audience

 

[robynhood]

RaffertyLFP Gowdey said McClintic tried her best after confession to help police "She helped police even though it was powerful evidence against her"

 

[robynhood]

AM980_Court "I'm not the only guilty person in this courtroom" McClintic said in her testimony. Gowdey read that in the courtroom.

 

[matou]

‏ @AM980_Court "I'm not the only guilty person in this courtroom" McClintic said in her testimony. Gowdey read that in the courtroom.

 

[robynhood]

RaffertyLFP Gowdey said McClintic helped police after confession, "She helped police even though it was powerful evidence against her"

 

[robynhood]

RaffertyLFP Gowdey said police had nothing on McClintic except grainy video - she led them to more evidence

 

[Sailor Bug]

RaffertyLFP: Gowdey said McClintic was serving life sentence and had nothing to gain in implicating Rafferty

McClintic, Gowdey reminds the jury, had no idea what the DNA evidence would say, yet her story matched up.

RaffertyLFP: Gowdey said police had nothing on McClintic except grainy video - she led them to more evidence

 

[robynhood]

M980_Court McClintic admitted so many things that made her look bad, Gowdey says.

 

[Sailor Bug]

"I'm not the only guilty person in this courtroom" McClintic said in her testimony. Gowdey read that in the courtroom.

McClintic admitted so many things that made her look bad, Gowdey says.

RaffertyLFP: Gowdey said McClintic said many things that cast her in bad light. She admitted abduction, deceiving Tori

 

[robynhood]

AveryFreeFMNews Gowdeysays McC could have changed her story 2 protect #Rafferty, 2 spare herself from testifying, 2 make it look like she wasn't cooperating

 

[Sailor Bug]

RaffertyLFP: "If she was falsely implicating Rafferty why would she invent details that would make her look bad?" says Gowdey

McClintic never tried to find help for Tori because she and Rafferty were in it together. If purpose was to implicate Rafferty...

... She could have come up with a story that makes her look better.

 

[robynhood]

AveryFreeFMNews "If she was going to falsely implicate #Rafferty, why make herself look so bad?" Gowdey asks the jury on McClintic's story.

 

[robynhood]

RaffertyLFP Gowdey said McClintic said many things that cast her in bad light. She admitted abduction, deceiving Tori

 

[Shasta]

46 photos here of some of the key and minor players in the trial plus photos of Tori's family. Sadly, they are being made to re-live the horror all over again.

http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/20...lintic-in-palm-of-his-hand-after-murder-crown

 

[robynhood]

AM980_Court ... She could have come up with a story that makes her look better.

 

[robynhood]

AM980_Court McClintic never tried to find help for Tori because she and Rafferty were in it together. If purpose was to implicate Rafferty.

 

[~n/t~]

Steven D'Souza ‏ @cbcsteve
Crown asks: if McClintic was creating a story to implicate #Rafferty, why would she include so many details that make her look bad?

Steven D'Souza ‏ @cbcsteve
Crown reminds jury of McClintic's statement during her testimony: "I'm not the only guilty person in this courtroom"


Avery Moore ‏ @AveryFreeFMNews
"If she was going to falsely implicate #Rafferty, why make herself look so bad?" Gowdey asks the jury on McClintic's story.

Avery Moore ‏ @AveryFreeFMNews
... Or she could have changed her story to finally tell the truth. Gowdey says the jury can decide.

Avery Moore ‏ @AveryFreeFMNews
Gowdeysays McC could have changed her story 2 protect #Rafferty, 2 spare herself from testifying, 2 make it look like she wasn't cooperating



Laura Carney ‏ @TheLC_75
Contrary to what defense said, Gowdey argues McClintic constantly made herself look bad in her testimony