Experts see fertile ground for appeals In Westerfield Trail

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/danielle/20020919-9999_1n19appeal.html ^ | September 19, 2002 | Greg Moran

[alexandria]

Well now, who was it that O' Riley was going to turn in to the ethics board?

[pinz-n-needlez]

Looks like Feldman was stupid like a fox on that porn thing...

Please, Judge Mudd, don't throw me into that briar patch.

There are a few chapters still to be written in this book, I think.

[spectre]

LOL! Alexandria. O'Reily is gonna be red-faced...such a twit!

sw

[pinz-n-needlez]

I hope they keep asking jurors about the series of notes and the timing of them on the day the death penalty was recommended.

That alone should get an appeal.

[spectre]

Don't forget...Ms. Brenda, Mother of the Year, is gonna be on Prime Time tonight...She's kind of porked out abit, huh?

Wasn't sad enough she couldn't go shopping at Nordstroms...huh?

sw

[pinz-n-needlez]

Sorry about these piecemeal responses, Alexandria.

>>Throughout the trial Mudd declined defense requests to sequester the jury. Instead, he urged the panel to "self-police" – to avoid reports on the case as they went about their lives.<<

Didn't the jury, themselves, ask to be sequestered when they started deliberation during the guilt phase? Didn't Mudd promise to sequester them if they wanted it?

Sometimes I wonder if Mudd was so outrageously leaning toward the prosecution just to bolster Feldman's chances of gettinga retrial on appeal. (Excuse me while I put away the foil.)

[pinz-n-needlez]

She's gone from cheap tshirts to tasteful beige suits, back to pullovers, and now, a wool suit.

She looks like she's trying to play at being a queen, but failing miserably.

I feel sorry for how flaky she's coming off as in these interviews.

[Jrabbit]

The boys are experiencing stress, so she gets massages. Typical.

[spectre]

She's got a better bleach job. But back to Judge Mudd. The Jury couldn't be sequestered. How could they watch Nancy Grace and Court TV? Mudd knew that, sly old devil!

sw

[mouser]

i think the including of the porn and the way they were used in the opning statment may well be grounds for a mistrial by causing predugical attude in jurors

[Rheo]

Thought you might like to see this article.:-)

[pinz-n-needlez]

Not to mention catch the daily rumors on the radio during their drive home....

[Jaded]

The article is quite interesting. During session dealing with jury instructions, Mudd made a joke about being fodder for the appeals court. He apparently wasn't one of their favorites before this trial.

[pinz-n-needlez]

You're right, mouser.

And then Dusek drove the point home over, and over, and over, and over during closing arguments.

It was one big emotional circle, but they had to get a couple drops of dna in there for a plausible conviction.

[Krodg]

Pinz.....

You may need to keep that foil handy as it will take quite a bit to cover all of the outrageous elements of this trial.

I pray that none of the dear people on FR ever have someone charge them with a crime they didn't commit. They will be hard pressed to find a defense lawyer after this mockery.

[spectre]

Court TV...Rick Roberts...Larry King. A beautiful set-up for an appeal. Wasn't there supposed to be a GAG order in there somewhere?

sw

[pinz-n-needlez]

Have you seen this article?

[Rheo]

Is that the same court that calls Mudd, his Majesty?

[spectre]

Me thinks O'Reily's gonna need a good Defense Attorney, LOL!

sw

[Jaded]

You bet, my pet. Hisself, his high mindedness, my Liege. Yep, that's the one.