Jury begins deliberations -Prosecutor says victim has pointed to her killer (keep it civil)

UNION-TRIBUNE signonsandiego.com ^ | August 9, 2002 | Alex Roth

[dread78645]

Jurors in the David Westerfield trial began deliberating yesterday after hearing a final statement from the lead prosecutor, who beamed a photo of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam onto the wall and urged the jury to focus on the physical evidence.

Finishing closing arguments in the two-month murder trial, prosecutor Jeff Dusek called a blood spot on Westerfield's jacket the "smoking gun." And Dusek imagined what Danielle might tell the jury if someone could bring her back to life "just for a moment" so she could answer the question, "Please tell us who did this to you."

"I've already told you," Dusek said the girl would tell the jury. "I've told you with my hair and where you found it. I've told you with the orange fiber that you found on my choker, and where you found it.

[mouser]

if he was looking for a bad chip and he was an EE why did he not use a logic probe it check the chips of just swap like chips most EE's and hobist have a few chips laying around or from another board or unit that would make more sence

[Yeti]

Just spent the past few minutes Googling up some PE associations,and couldn't get any hits. That probably doesn't mean much,since there are more professional engineers' organizations than a stick can be shaken at.

Try IEEE. He will almost certainly be a member. You may be able to find his credentials there.

[185JHP]

Bob Leuci (wrote "Prince of the City") was interviewed and asked "What's the deal with these guys (cops)?" And he said "Well, about 10% are almost always honest. And about 10% are almost always crooked - they'd be crooks if they weren't cops." And in "Presumed Innocent", one of the lawyers counsels "They're hard, and they're crazy." That said, the best ones are amazingly admirable people - the best.

[John Jamieson]

The press did say "he took his friend to the airport" but they have been wrong before.

[John Jamieson]

Poor spelling is almost proof he IS an EE! BTW DW never graduated, he finished 3 years.

[185JHP]

You "Know What They Did Last Summer"?

[Bluebird Singing]

Hi sunshine-
Are you in Fla too? I read somewhere that Damon graduated from Cooper City High.

[Yeti]

USENET is not dead, it just smells that way sometimes.

LOL

I miss ASCII art!!!

[sawsalimb]

No luck using the IEEE site search engine.

[dread78645]

Poor spelling is almost proof he IS an EE!

I thought those mechanical eng. folks couldn't spell.
The things you learn on AlGores internet thingy.

[Yeti]

if he was looking for a bad chip and he was an EE why did he not use a logic probe it check the chips of just swap like chips most EE's and hobist have a few chips laying around or from another board or unit that would make more sence

I know, I looked at it again, and the date was early 1992. So maybe it would be worth his time if he had an ok printer, and maybe most EE's couldn't afford their own logic tester back then. Was he even out of school by then?

[small_l_libertarian]

I don't know yet, but I hope to find out!

[crystalk]

IIRC Damon lived with his parents in Hollywood, Fla. before turning 18 and had been born in Fla.

After he went away to college, his parents divorced and his mother continued living in Ft Lauderdale, but I have not seen what happened to his father.

I have often wondered, even before this case, what ever was known if anything about the white teen much older than Adam Walsh, who was expelled with Adam from the video game arcade after the blacks started trouble. That teen, after all, was probably the last person to have seen Adam alive, besides the perp...unless the teen and the perp are the same...

[Yeti]

No luck using the IEEE site search engine.

Do you mean you used it and it came back empty, or that it wasn't functionl?

[dread78645]

Was he even out of school by then?

His e-mail was @eng.ufl.edu.

[pinz-n-needlez]

Are you pondering what I'm pondering, Pinky?

[John Jamieson]

Sounds like a Feldman question!

Anybody else going to watch "First Shot" on TBS in a half hour?

[pinz-n-needlez]

Go, Yeti! You've been Feldmanized! Tee hee

[crystalk]

Are you suggesting this is one of those so-called "walk-ins" where a soul exits an earlier body, and immediately enters another body born on the same day as the death of the former body?

[crystalk]

Maybe because he had done so once before, and thus you had something incriminating on him?