Highly probable- BUT-there's been WAY too much pre-indictment publicity on this case: enough to poison any local area jury pool-and MAYBE enough to trigger a judicial reversal,if the case is not handled properly from here on out.
Did you kill him?
"WHAT?"
Did you kill him?
"WHAT?"
Did you kill him?
"WHAT?"
Did you kill him?
"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaah."
"UPDATE 5:58pm: NY1 is now running the mugshot. Looks like it's hit the mainstream media-- and relatively quickly-- about five hours from a blog to MSM. Not bad, pros!"
Bad moments in hookup history
Crazy excon bouncer and drunk coed drive off in a van for a lil nookie and the excon goes crazy and the rest is known...Sad case all the way around
Hope the owner gets everything that's coming to them for hiring this ex-con as a bouncer then allowing him to take this drunken girl home.
I'm inclined to disagree, to wit:
ritual killing, not the sort of thing a "career criminal" bothers with;
very screwy behavior on the part of the bartender, son of the owner; rich, politically connected family who, a)wasn't stupid or unprofessional enough to be fooled by Littlejohn's failure to disclose -- any idiot can find that information out; b)had a brush with a murdered patron before and bailed out the accused who was later convicted;
the suspect is just too obvious a patsy; evidence is circumstantial at the moment;
he's involved, apparently, but I think he did some dirty work for the bartender. He's your man. He appeared to be buying time for Littlejohn at first, now is letting him twist in the wind.
Now, even if he is guilty, I don't think a jury will convict him just because of what I cited, especially the obstruction of the investigation by the bartender.
Separately, has anyone said, "Gee, it's not a good idea to go barhopping by yourself all night long in New York City," or is the world supposed to pretend that the odds of this sort of tragedy don't increase exponentially when one does so?