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.

[MizSterious]

I'll just make a little informal list--you take today, I take Wednesday, let's see if someone else has another choice. The winner(s) get to call themselves winners and say "I told you so," big prize, eh?

[gigi]

This had to be a re-run of last season, right?? Did Mudd film this before the DW trial or during?? If you know.

[small_l_libertarian]

I-hate-Dusek-I-hate-Dusek-I-hate-Dusek-I-hate-Dusek.

To me, that man symbolizes everything wrong with our judicial system. He's a completely out-of-control prosecutor who not only twisted the defendant's statements to make him look guilty (in a death penalty case, which is just morally outrageous), but flat out lied to the jury when he said he didn't know what questions to ask Faulkner.

BULL$#!+! He has personally used Faulkner's testimony to put men in prison. What a sick individual. He's willing to do something he knows is wrong, just to get a "win," which could very well lead to the death of a man.

Then the BANG-BANG-BANGING on the jury box to incite the jurors' passions to convict this man of raping a child. Oh, wait - he's not charged with raping a child. Guess that doesn't matter, though, when you're going for the win.

I hate him I hate him I hate him I hate him....

[MizSterious]

No, it's a new show, but I'm not sure when it was taped.

[gigi]

Maybe this is why Mudd didn't want the jury sequesterd, he didn't want them to miss him on TV. :)

[Krodg]

I say early Fri. There is a lot of evidence to go through and I think they will take their role very seriously. Besides if they wait until Fri morning, they will have a long weekend to let things settle before returning to work.:)

[gigi]

Win at all costs. I really hate him too!!

[crystalk]

Definitely that is NOT Dutch (nederlands), in fact it is Norse or Danish, which are very much the same in writing.

[small_l_libertarian]

I loved the defense in that one - the defendant could have gotten 7 years if he had been convicted. His brother got up on the stand (after being missing for a day when he should have been in court - said he was hung over and forgot to come to court) and said that the meth belonged to him. The jury let his brother off.

Then the DA decided to charge the brother that claimed the meth with possession. He pled guilty and ended up with only probation. Cracked me up, but probably only because I hate the SD DA's office so dang much.

(Also, I think that simple drug possession crimes should never be prosecuted, since it's not the state's business what someone does to their own body - the state should really be spending their time and our resources on other things, like maybe finding missing children or putting murderers and rapists in jail. How about thieves and vandals? Corporate crooks? Terrorists? But no, they want to go and pick on the Dumbass Brothers 'cuz they wanted to get high with some girlies. Whatever. But, hey, maybe it's just me. Rant off.)

[Mrs.Liberty]

I'll take Thursday. mmmm Thursday, lunchtime, verdict will be in.

[dread78645]

Good morning, MizSterious,

Life imatates the Onion.

[shezza]

I-hate-Dusek-I-hate-Dusek-I-hate-Dusek-I-hate-Dusek.

Maybe you can get Jaded to teach you how to put that in shrieking HTML. ;o)

[alisasny]

Most of you think that DW will either be found guilty or hung jury by this particular jury.

Most of you also believe DW is innocent.

Now I admit I have trouble with this case convicting since their is NO evidence of him being in the VD home.

However I was wondering why you think this jury will NOT see that.

Also with that missing evidence why did DW not take stand? Was he afraid of being convicted of the porn on his computer? He would have had to admit that on the stand. He is guilty of that. Do you have a problem with him admiting that on stand? Do you have a problem of him being convicted of just that charge?

[small_l_libertarian]

I HATE HIM - I HATE HIM - I HATE HIM - I HATE HIM!!!

I can HTML shriek - it's just early. :-)

[Duan]

As requested, Ping!

Thanks Miz -- Don't acquit without me -- :-)

[bvw]

It's 20 degrees in Oslo, Norway!

[small_l_libertarian]

He's not necessarily guilty of any crime concerning the porn. The police computer investigator testified at the preliminary hearing that he saw NO prepubescent children among the images. It is up to the jury to decide whether the people in the images are minors - the police have only described about 80 images as "questionable."

I think he didn't testify because that would have left him open to Dusek questions like, "Did you kill her after you raped her?" "After you raped the innocence out of that poor little child, how did you get rid of her body?"

There's no answering questions like that.

[irgbar-man]

Hope to heck that's celsius! G'mornin' all!

[MizSterious]

It's been explained. You've chosen to either not understand or to reject the explanation. Sorry, it's not up to me (or any of us) to re-explain over and over.

[I. Ben Hurt]

Morning Sheeza! I've missed thanking you for the prayer pings but they are much appreciated. Also thanks to Ucansee2 for pinging me the updates. You people are great. Thanks again.