Van Dam Jury Update, Monday August 12th: Westerfield's Fate Lies In Mudd Instructions?

Court TV ^ | August 12, 2002 | Court TV

[FresnoDA]

Jury's time Jurors will resume deliberations Monday in the capital case of David Westerfield, who is accused of killing 7-year-old Danielle van Dam

DAY TWO: FRIDAY, AUG. 9, 2002
12 noon ET	Jury enters jury room.
2:30 p.m. ET	Jury goes home for the weekend.

DAY ONE: THURSDAY, AUG. 8, 2002
1:10 p.m. ET	Jury begins deliberating. After two months of testimony, the capital murder trial of David Westerfield is in the hands of the jurors, who began their deliberations following more than two days of closing arguments.
2:50 p.m.	Jury sends a note to the judge.
3:00 p.m.	Jury at lunch.
4:30 p.m.	Judge calls the lawyers but not the public or the press into the courtroom.
5:15 p.m.	Judge says jurors sent note asking to deliberate five days a week instead of having Friday off and he approved their request.
7:00 p.m.	Jury goes home for the day. Will return Friday morning.

[the Deejay]

Oh, thanks for that. I had no idea how large
they went up to.

[gigi]

My Sumo or Moo Moo is his nickname is all grey, he weighs in at a svelt 18 lbs. He sleeps on his back with his front paws stretched over his head and his hind legs extended. It's a crack up.

Maine coons also have a distinct meow and have very large paws. And large tuffs off fur sticking out from their ears. They are beautiful cats.

[Politicalmom]

Have I made your day?? : )

[The Other Harry]

I could only find one photo of one receipt and it was completely illegible.

Woudn't it be interesting if we could actually get clear looks at the evidence over the internet?

I think so. Maybe someday we will be able to.

[UCANSEE2]

If newbies are allowed to play,

Anyone that has the humbleness to admit to being a newbie, and shows such courtesy and respect, just graduated out of newbie class!

[the Deejay]

Don't know if you made my day, but you did
tell me something I did not know. LOL

[MizSterious]

Yes, I did miss that post, thanks for posting it again.

[demsux]

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[Yeti]

Neal lied on the stand...

I keep hearing this, but as I recall, he admitted to surfing legal porn and anime. Did I hallucinate this?

Sorry I'm lagging, I just got home from work....I'll catch up...

[MizSterious]

Gotya--and it's ok if you choose the same time someone else has. If you win, it just proves great minds think alike!

[small_l_libertarian]

Basically, he admitted to anything legal and denied anything that might be illegal. Says that the sex/rape animes aren't his - I say they are.

[the Deejay]

"He sleeps on his back with his front paws stretched over his head and his hind legs extended. It's a crack up."

Yes, mine slept the same way. The first time I'd seen him like that, I thought he'd died! LOL He was a very good "watch cat", it amazed me. (This had been my first experience with owning a cat.)

[UCANSEE2]

I do see a plausible reason for Danielle's blood on the green jacket. It's believeable that Danielle's blood could have gotten on his jacket while the jacket in his house. Danielle and her mom were there -at Dw's house (twice) for cookie sales. His jacket could have been on a chair in his kitchen or something. Kids do easily get cuts and scrapes, she could have carried blood on her hand and touched his jacket on one of their visits.

Oh, I agree. And just because the Prosecution wants us to accept that that jacket is the one 'usually' left in the MH doesn't mean it's true. They want that 'idea' in the jurors minds as it contributes to the KIDNAPPED AND TAKEN INTO MH theory.

[the-gooroo]

I agree -- Drycleaning does NOT degrade DNA as per my post 107. You said that the only DNA on the comforters was David's. I don't remember that. If that's the case I wonder why Feldman didn't make a big deal out of it? Or did he and I just missed it? ------- If DW's dna was on the comforters after going through the drycleaning process and no dna from Danielle was found, that would be a huge reason to disbelieve Dusek and his theory of rape and murder in the motorhome.

[small_l_libertarian]

12 square feet of pizza. That sounds about right.

[JudyB1938]

Here's a nice website for those who are not familiar with a Maine Coon Cat ...

DESCRIPTION, HISTORY, ETC: http://www.fanciers.com/breed-faqs/maine-coon-faq.html

PICTURES: http://www.fanciers.com/breed-faqs/maine-coon-colors.html

[The Other Harry]

I think we are heading only on 10 hours of deliberation. I haven't been able to track down the little "over three days" actual number of hours the Skakel Jury deliberated, tho.

All it would have taken me on that one would have been long enough to cure the notorious "pee-pee dance".

[gigi]

Thats all true. They could believe different theories for reasonable doubt, but that means they would have to believe that the physical evidence in the MH got there by other means other than DW kidnapping and killing her.

[The Other Harry]

Thanks to both of you.