Defense Feldman: Danielle Van Dam Knew Her Abductor: Dusek, Still Talking...Westerfield Waiting

Union Trib ^ | August 8, 2002 | Steve Perez/Greg Magnus

[Henrietta]

I totally recommend PMBR for the Multistate portion.

[UCANSEE2]

A BIG THANK YOU to SPECTRE, to JADED for the SND website, A BIG THANKS to PoliticalMom for the FR REFUGEE BOARD, a BIG THANK YOU to SHEEZA for posting quickie transcripts on the threads each day.

Also I want to THANK those that believe DW is guilty and have tried to prove so, and provide counters to (my and others) opinions/arguments.

You also helped make these threads the voluminous source of information I believe they have become.

IF DW gets GUILTY may it be because he truly is.

IF not, I pray that LE can find the real killer quickly.

[UCANSEE2]

Thank YOU ever so much. It is one of the MOST WONDERFUL things I have found at FREE REPUBLIC. NO matter WHICH thread or subject one chooses, you can mention something, and SOMEONE will provide you with a SOURCE for that type of INFO.

Again, thanks!

[nycgal]

At least pizza is cheap

Domino's special "loaves and fishes" pizza? Buy one, feed multitudes.

[UCANSEE2]

It is well known by Federal defense lawyers to be true but I'm sure you know better.

FBI Tainting Evidence

Provided courtesy of ROLLINGSTONE.

[pyx]

Thank you for your outstanding coverage and insights in this trial. May God Bless you and yours.

[nycgal]

PROSECUTION says that DW must have picked them up and carried them with him and Danielle just because he wanted more fiber evidence spread around to make sure he got caught.

Well, he didn't manage to get THOSE fibers on his stuff. Maybe because he didn't do it?

[Neenah]

760 KFMB

They are talking about this NOW. !!

[JudyB1938]

Theories:

1) I've also thought, like you, that Friday period was when the VD's did something to Danielle, if they did.

2) Then I considered Samantha's killer - too many things are alike in both cases. She very well could have gotten up while the drunken addict perverts were still asleep, taken her backpack & gone to the park, where she could have been snatched.

3) The final theory I toss around is that it's the international pedophile ring that has members right there in the same town. They had the resources to keep Danielle alive, then killing her when the heat came down on them for other pedophilia acts/rapes.

[UCANSEE2]

I would not go so far as to say DW absolutely didn't do it, but I don't think he did. What I will say is there is so much doubt and the evidence as a whole greatly favors the defense.

I would say the bug evidence goes in DW's favor.

The fiber,hair,DNA evidence will go against DW even though it is HIGHLY LIKELY this is all trumped up and possibly planted by LE to try and guarantee things.

I know The info I got said that 12 out of 13 markers doesn't mean sh*t.

Everything else, (curtains, stuck in desert, dog hit/didn't/tt driver hearing voices) are all just MEDIA/LE hype that didn't pan out.

NOW, how the JURY will view all of this and decide I don't believe ANY ONE can PREDICT. PERIOD.

[Henrietta]

Not that hard to win when you cheat all the time.

It's also not hard to win when you have the taxpayer's money to put as many people on the case as you want, all paid for by you and me (and the defendant) and the defendant is either left to hire his own attorneys at enormous expense, or he is stuck with some hack paid a pittance to defend him.

Here's an idea the level the playing field: for every dollar the prosecution spends on attorneys, investigators, and expert witnesses, the defendant gets one dollar for his attorneys, investigators, and expert witnesses. Expensive? You bet your buns, it's expensive. "But if it saves just one life...." Why shouldn't as much money be spent on the defendant's defense as on his prosecution? If it's that important to throw the guilty in jail, shouldn't we as a society make sure we have the right person, and make sure that innocent citizens shouldn't have to bankrupt themselves when the corrupt and overzealous agents of the state come to the house with the legirons?

[NatureGirl]

All the more time to read up on the trial, watch CourtTV, etc.

...get intimated by friends, family, neighbours.

[JudyB1938]

Amen, Henrietta, AMEN!

[UCANSEE2]

You are confused as to who brings a prosecution a case.

Not confused. Relating your original statement to another Federal Government organization to make a comparison.

its a politally appointed ladder climber that doesn't want to take any chances and therefore he isn't going to stick his head out and take a case he isn't guaranteed to win.

YOU JUST SAID IT AGAIN. Isn't going to TAKE a CASE he isn't "GUARANTEED"

to WIN! How do you think they know it is guaranteed (in some cases, not all of course)?

Is is because they know that tests done on blood or drugs are going to come back POSITIVE, no matter what ?

Did you read the ARTICLE about the FBI CHEATING ? It is a KNOWN FACT.

[UCANSEE2]

Very good point. I got that same impression from their behavior Saturday morning, with Damon's "Oh well, we still have the two boys to raise" and their utter lack of worry. But it might have started on Friday.

It is possible Danielle disappeared FRIDAY. We have only the WORD of PROVEN LIARS that she was HOME after 3pm on FRIDAY.

[UCANSEE2]

Well, he didn't manage to get THOSE fibers on his stuff. Maybe because he didn't do it?

If we could find 'those' pj's, we might be able to find Danielle's killer.

[UCANSEE2]

P.S. Wonder where Damon hid them?

[contessa machiaveli]

yes, i would like to know.... you've made some pretty horrible allegations. photos? diary? freep mail if it's too incendiary to post.

[Steve0113]

It is possible Danielle disappeared FRIDAY. We have only the WORD of PROVEN LIARS that she was HOME after 3pm on FRIDAY.

Wouldn't her brothers know whether she came home from school on Friday?

[nycgal]

If we could find 'those' pj's, we might be able to find Danielle's killer

Exactly!