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[Gypsy Road]

If CA is subpoenaed as a witness, she can’t refuse to testify. She can, however, plead the fifth on specific questions where she might incriminate herself (i.e., ‘did you give KA your passport?’).

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They can also grant her special immunity.

 

[SteveP]

I wonder if CA will plead the 5th if called as a witness (and she most likely will be called as a witness by the prosecution, I doubt the defense will want to put her in a compromising position with her own sister). I doubt she will testify against her sister.

Pleading the 5th is invoking one's rights against self-incrimination, but it can't be invoked to protect someone else. There is a spousal privilege, and there in many states is a parent/child privilege, but there is no blanket privilege that allows someone not to answer questions about a sibling. JMO

 

[Gypsy Road]

It took a six-hour drive through Costa Rica for Kaitlin Armstrong to finally admit her identity to authorities.
“I would say she was exhausted” when she was arrested, Deputy U.S. Marshal Brandon Filla said during a Thursday press conference. “When she was encountered by uniform officers in Costa Rica, she didn’t give her true identity at first. It took a little bit of time for her to reveal her true identity.”

How Police Say a Yoga Teacher Evaded Police for 43 Days

Kaitlin Armstrong tried to hide out in multiple Costa Rican cities, used three aliases, and may have gotten plastic surgery—but police caught her anyway.

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6 hours! Dang! Casey Anthony vibes here! Remember she went all the way down the hall with LE to show them the office where she worked, but at the end got to the door and finally admitted she never worked there at all. That’s a special kind of person who is not afraid!

 

[Sundog]

Well, they’re going to have to stop threatening family for helping fugitives, because it seems they’re just calling everyone’s bluff. This is by no means the first case I’ve seen this happen with.

Lesson: Yes, you can aid and abet, if the fugitive is family. You will always be granted immunity in exchange for testimony.

If there was enough evidence to prosecute CA, I think that even if the prosecution offered CA immunity for her testimony that she still might plead the 5th if it meant testifying to anything that could be harmful to KA's case.

 

[Sundog]

Pleading the 5th is invoking one's rights against self-incrimination, but it can't be invoked to protect someone else. There is a spousal privilege, and there in many states is a parent/child privilege, but there is no blanket privilege that allows someone not to answer questions about a sibling. JMO

But I think the testimony that the prosecution most wants from CA is related to the passport, and CA would be incriminating herself if she answered that question. I don't know what other information she could provide in the case that would help the prosecution. In fact, if she did answer general questions about KA's visit, she could be perceived by the jury as helping KA's case, since CA seems that she would appear as a sweet, innocent witness

 

[Gypsy Road]

Kaitlin Armstrong: Texas fugitive used aliases until Costa Rica cops detained her on immigration charge | Fox News

U.S. Marshals and local law enforcement delivered an update Thursday, a week after fugitive murder suspect Kaitlin Armstrong's arrest on a beach in Costa Rica.

www.foxnews.com

 

[SMK777]

6 hours! Dang! Casey Anthony vibes here! Remember she went all the way down the hall with LE to show them the office where she worked, but at the end got to the door and finally admitted she never worked there at all. That’s a special kind of person who is not afraid!

I don’t get the 6 hour ride bit. Who took the ride, and with whom? Why did it take 6 hours?

 

[Gypsy Road]

I don’t get the 6 hour ride bit. Who took the ride, and with whom? Why did it take 6 hours?

It’s in the Daily Beast article linked above, but wasn’t mentioned today in the presser. It was a 6 hour ride back to the airport with Costa Rican authorities to deport her.

 

[SMK777]

It’s in the Daily Beast article linked above, but wasn’t mentioned today in the presser. It was a 6 hour ride back to the airport with Costa Rican authorities to deport her.

Oh, ok. So after the 6 hour ride, she admitted to being Kaitlin Armstrong?

 

[Seattle1]

6 hours! Dang! Casey Anthony vibes here! Remember she went all the way down the hall with LE to show them the office where she worked, but at the end got to the door and finally admitted she never worked there at all. That’s a special kind of person who is not afraid!

I don’t get the 6 hour ride bit. Who took the ride, and with whom? Why did it take 6 hours?

Six hours is the ride from Santa Teresa to San Jose (i.e., Juan Santamaria Int'l Airport Customs-Immigration).

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[Gypsy Road]

I wonder who paid for KA’s flights?

 

[Sundog]

dbm

Misunderstood the question

 

[Howl]

I wonder who paid for KA’s flights?

KA sold her Jeep for $12,000 before she left Austin, so she had cash available. She could also have put it on a credit card.

 

[SMK777]

I wonder who paid for KA’s flights?

You mean back to the US? I guess the authorities.

 

[RickshawFan]

She's a poser. An shape shifting embodiment of arrogance, entitlement, narcissism, confidence, delusion, retribution...

Beautiful on the outside, fed the ugly inside.

Snipped for focus.

This is what I think we'll find out in the course of this case: she has been a shape shifter all along, but no one thought about it as being pathological, or else they were in denial.

 

[Emi]

from 20:34 mark Mike King talks about KA case

 

[Gypsy Road]

KA sold her Jeep for $12,000 before she left Austin, so she had cash available. She could also have put it on a credit card.

I doubt she would have put it on her own credit card. I think authorities would have known sooner she had fled to NY if she had.

 

[Gypsy Road]

You mean back to the US? I guess the authorities.

No, her flights to NY and to Costa Rica.

 

[Gypsy Road]

I can see her paying cash at the counter, but I would think a flight that quick would be very expensive - dwindling her $12,000 cash amount she receive selling her Jeep.

 

[Gypsy Road]

We did, probably.

I’m sorry, I wasn’t clear. I meant her outgoing flights to NY from Houston, and to Costa Rica.