Posted on 08/06/2002 6:40:14 AM PDT by FresnoDA
Westerfield closings set for Tuesday |
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SAN DIEGO After two months and 116 witnesses, jurors in the capital murder case of David Westerfield will hear closing arguments Tuesday. "We'll be ready to rock and roll tomorrow morning," Judge William Mudd told lawyers Monday. Defense attorneys for Westerfield, who is accused of kidnapping and killing his 7-year-old neighbor Danielle van Dam, had considered calling a forensic anthropologist as their final witness. After weekend discussions, however, they decided to rest their case, defense lawyer Steven Feldman told Mudd. The judge imposed no time limits on the arguments Feldman and prosecutor Jeff Dusek will make, and closings in the trial, which included 199 exhibits and weeks of complex forensic testimony, could stretch into a second day. At the hearing Monday, Feldman made yet another attempt to have the panel of six men and six women sequestered during deliberations. He cited front page articles about the case in the local paper as well as an article about swinging in San Diego magazine. "The land mines keep growing, Judge," he told Mudd. As he had before, the judge denied the request and said he trusted the jury to follow his instructions about avoiding media accounts of the case. Westerfield, 50, faces the death penalty if convicted of Danielle's slaying. The second-grader was abducted from her bedroom last February. Searchers found her naked body on the side of a road three and a half weeks later. Prosecutors claim Westerfield sexually assaulted and suffocated her, but the defense says forensic evidence indicates she was dumped after the defendant was under police surveillance. |
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Dusek just tries to tell the jury how DW did it ..he grabs Danielle by the arm and says (really mean) "you come with me, YOU COME with ME, RIGHT NOW"!
Bite me, Dusek.
sw
I don't know what Feldman can say.
The 911 tape tells us "basically how the kidapping happened"..
It does? What?
sw
This case to too HIGH PROFILE for the judge to allow the JURY to do anything but come back with GUILTY. The DA's career is on the line. Dusek's career is on the line.
The city of San Diego is on the line.
The JUDGE's career is on the line. They must show a case for being HARD on CHILD KILLERS. (well, when it's on TV every day for months. When it is not a high profile case, they can do differently).
What about these 2 men running a CHILD PORN/RAPE/KILL ring out of SAN DIEGO.
How come people aren't demanding they be HUNG ????????? They have themselves ON VIDEO committing rape of children. Nobody seems upset about. Wonder why that is? Are they gonna show that in court, or will it be suppressed ?
All they gotta do is claim they are homosexuals and they will be protected by the PC politicians and Judges.
No, I don't believe he did. It certainly has not been shown he had one thing to do with child porn. Unless you are going to contend that Neal set up a special sub-file in his father's work folder, for example? I don't think so.
He's right. He doesn't have to prove a darn thing if the Jury is STUPID and convicts on emotions.
sw
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