Westerfield Jury Reaches Verdict DEATH

o | Joe Hadenuf

[FreeTheHostages]

"Kimmy, If Dave Westerfield"

Let's see: "Dready" or "Dreadie" or "Dreadster."

Dreadster. That's kewl.

Everyone have another beer.

[Palladin]

My apologies. It seems you are being treated badly in the state of Washington. Good luck with your case.

[Freedom2specul8]

"The motorhome had been parked at his residence approx one year "

IMHO, the amount of time he owned it wasn't the issue.
I should have underlined the important part of that statement. He had it both at the storage facility and at home. the way that comment was written, it was like he spent his daily time...trying to skirt the bylaws of the homes association. Sure, he broke the rules, but not for an entire year.

[UCANSEE2]

You are right. Shouldn't have been sent in FREEPMAIL.

I told you. Watch out. This FTH is one of those ALL COPS ARE GOOD, ALL JUDGES ARE GOOD, ALL PROSECUTORS are honest lawywers.

She could never admit that for many lawyers, the practice of law usually involves lying and deception, bribes, kickbacks, favors.

I am not picking on lawyers, I think there is potential for corruption in all phases of life.

FTH has blinders on, or is just lying about her profession as many lawyers do.

I have seen corruption by lawyers, judges here where I live. To be working in the field and think there is no corruption is to be blind because you choose to be.

Well, FTH, am I correct about this?

[FreeTheHostages]

Did Feldman really do a good job? I have to wonder..he planted all these ideas, but nothing to back it up. For example, the jurors were left scratching their heads wrt:the swinging issue..(so they say)

Absolutely fricking beautiful job Feldman did. His entire job was to confuse. And leave jurors with reasonable doubt on issues that had nothing to do with the elements of the crime. It's the best response to DNA-type evidence: to put on a defense that gets the jury to stray from scientific modalities of thought.

Look, I think Westerfield's guilty, don't get me wrong. But Feldman did a fine, fine job as a defense attorney. My prosecutor friends agree. Very solid. Best he could do was try to get the jurors to scratch their heads harder.
<BR. Ever seen the South Park episode with the Chubakee defense? That's the line he was running. Know the bit? It's a take-off on Johnny Chochran. They have this cartoon version of him stand before the jury and get a clearly guilty guy off because of a little story about how a Chubakee could end up a on different planet, one which had nothing to do with him, it all made no sense. And on and on the defense went, all about this alien on an even more alien planet. What, asks Chochran, does this have to do with the crime! NOthing!! it makes NO SENSE! None of this makes ANY SENSE!!! And so, ladies and gentlemen, you must acquit.

[UCANSEE2]

Flame not; that thou mayest not be flamed"

Such a hypocritical remark coming from you.

[Freedom2specul8]

"Juror #1 in the pool. A woman who works as a welfare-eligibility worker for San Diego County. During jury selection, she expressed concerns about the behavior of Brenda van Dam, the victim's mother. "

[FreeTheHostages]

See, UCANSEE2, I'm glad you posted your Freep mail because it's not objectionable and can continue in the dialogue publicly. Good for you. I hope everyone reads it.

I stand by my response: hmm, so many capital letters. Sorry, can't deal. I response to Freep names and postings with a higher proportion of small letters. Guess it's just an adult thing.

Cordially yours,
FTH

[UCANSEE2]

I'm not here to persuade you.

What are you here for? Satify your bloodlust?

[Illbay]

With that, the death of all the silly Smokey Back Room conspiracy theories.

Oh, they'll try to carry on for a little while, but they're already relegated to the ash-heap, as they say, of FReeper history.

[connectthedots]

And Faulkner's testimony only gave mid-February as the latest date when Danielle's body could have been exposed to insects, not the earliest, Tony said.

(Assuming Tony was not either misquoted or made a mis-statement) Tony, mid-February was the EARLIEST DATE. I certainly hope DW wasn't convicted because the jury confused the meanings of the words 'latest' and 'earliest'. I remembering Dusek trying to make this issue as confusing as possible, and maybe he succeeded.

[Freedom2specul8]

Ok ok, I do not watch south park. :-p But I completely understand the confusion part. I caught him doing that numerous times...like droning on and on with technical questions. BTW, my own confusion is over. I thought juror #11's profile was the profile of #10.

Juror 11
Juror #70 in the pool. A white male who is the father of a 9-month-old child and works as a software engineer. He spent some time in the military working in naval intelligence, and his father was a state trooper for 25 years. He believes this case is a big responsibility. He considers himself a strong supporter of the death penalty, was brought up Christian, and believes in "an eye for an eye."

[Jorge]

You just come here to spew hate about what you see is a child molestor.

The jury concluded that he was not only a child molestor but also a child murderer.
I can't imagine why any poster would feel "hate" towards such a person.

[Valpal1]

It wasn't Kim who thought he had it less than a year, it was me. I sincerely thought 2001 was the purchase date.

But frankly it doesn't invalidate the problem with the hair in the sink drain. If it had been there for any length of time, in this case 3-4 months since it had been in the neighborhood, it would have be degraded and unidentifiable by water, soap, grease in the drain. So why was a fresh hair in the sink if she wasn't in it that weekend?

[Joe Hadenuf]

LOL! That's like saying, how do you account for unidentified hair in the house!

How do *you* account for the little girls blood on Westerfield's jacket?

[Illbay]

Inmates will carry out the sentence before the state will.

I hear that frequently, but I'm not sure that I've ever seen any statistics on this. True, you had Dahmer's case, but his was very high-profile, and any nut wanting his 15 minutes' of fame might've snuffed him.

How about all the other not-so-famous child molestation and murder cases?

Do those people REALLY have a low life expectancy in prison? Or is this just really an "urban legend" that no one ever questions?

[Joe Hadenuf]

You bet, any innocent person would. Without a doubt.....

[Freedom2specul8]

I missed your #379....

I barely got flamed w/large letters by freepmail..but I got friendly warnings about the "other side"... giggle

[Illbay]

I had to leave the room,

D'ja have a nice shower?

[Valpal1]

Now you are claiming that you're right and the jury man is wrong and incorrectly understood the testimony.

Perhaps you could demonstrate the validity of your claim with the trial transcript?