Trial Thread, May 1, 2012 Defense begins it case in chief

[Sailor Bug]

She's looking at the map of Woodstock and the Oliver Stephens area in the courtroom.

RaffertyLFP: First witness is a grandmother who was picking up grandchildren at Oliver Stephens School on April 8

 

[nursebeeme]

2m Linda Nguyen ‏ @LindaNguyenPN Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Michael #Rafferty will NOT be testifying at his first-degree murder trial #ToriStafford

3m Steven D'Souza ‏ @cbcsteve Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Michael #Rafferty will not be taking the stand in his own defence.Defence calling only one witness. Publication ban on name #sl

3m Avery Moore ‏ @AveryFreeFMNews Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Derstine to call only one witness. Does not have an opening statement. #Rafferty

4m Cristina Tenaglia ‏ @cristina_CHCHTV Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Defence calls one witness. Name protected by publication ban. Elderly woman. #Rafferty

peeps we are NOT going to be sleuthing who this may be please

 

[Dmman]

It must be one humdinger of a witness to forfeit their right to close last!!!

 

[Flowercb]

Publication Ban on the one witness for the defense?

I'll bet this is because this person would be in danger if they exposed who they were. MOO

 

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Steven D'Souza ‏ @cbcsteve
Defence does not have an opening statement. Questioning of witness begins


Steven D'Souza ‏ @cbcsteve
Michael #Rafferty will not be taking the stand in his own defence.Defence calling only one witness. Publication ban on name #sl


Avery Moore ‏ @AveryFreeFMNews
Derstine to call only one witness. Does not have an opening statement.

Avery Moore ‏ @AveryFreeFMNews
Jury back in the packed court room. Observation room also packed. Derstine to tell court if he is going to call any witnesses. #Rafferty





Nil Köksal ‏ @nilkoksalcbc
#Rafferty defence is calling one witness and it is not Michael Rafferty. #sl #LDNont #ToriStafford

 

[tmhco]

steven d'souza‏@cbcsteve

michael #rafferty will not be taking the stand in his own defence.defence calling only one witness. Publication ban on name #sl

guilty as charged, coward. Jmo

 

[nursebeeme]

and the defense also has no opening statement? what the hello is this?

 

[Thinkzerz]

AM980.ca ‏ @AM980_Court
She drove a green sedan in 2009.

She picks them up and drops them off at school. Some days, her daughter would join her.

The defense has called a woman who has grandchildren attending Oliver Stephens Public School.

 

[Wondergirl]

2m.James Armstrong‏@jamesarmstrong7

First witness has grandchildren who attended school at that time. She says se always took them to school and picked them up. #raff


1m.James Armstrong‏@jamesarmstrong7

Witness says that her grandkids were not allowed to walk home or to school alone #rafferty

 

[Bravo]

Must be a hell of a witness.

JMO

Now that made me laugh. Hard.

 

[Sailor Bug]

She's going over the driveways into Caressent Care Retirement Home.

RaffertyLFP: Derstine is assisting the woman to point out areas around Oliver Stephens School and CASS

There are two parking lots, one larger, one smaller.

The witness would park near Oliver Stephens, parallel to Fyfe Avenue.

 

[crazyladi]

She is the driver of the green sedan... Why are the tweets coming in from AM980.ca quicker?

 

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Nil Köksal ‏ @nilkoksalcbc
A publication ban prevents us from us from naming this witness. #ToriStafford #Rafferty #sl #LDNont

 

[Wondergirl]

.James Armstrong‏@jamesarmstrong7

She drove a green sedan in 2009. #rafferty

https://twitter.com/#

 

[crazyladi]

No a grandmother that would drop her kids off and pick them up at the school

 

[Wondergirl]

10:23
RaffertyLFP:
Derstine is assisting the woman to point out areas around Oliver Stephens School and CASS [via Twitter]

 

[CarrieBean]

What could this woman possibly say that would help the defense?

 

[nursebeeme]

do not: I repeat DO NOT try to sleuth who the witness is due to the publication ban

 

[SideKick]

I wonder what this green sedan means?

 

[Sailor Bug]

RaffertyLFP: Derstine is assisting the woman to point areas around Oliver Stephens and CASS

The witness would park near Oliver Stephens, parallel to Fyfe Avenue.

She would park near the teacher's vehicles.

RaffertyLFP: The wiab said she parked her Montana at Oliver Stephens parallel to Fyfe Ave