[spectre]

Good post, Miz.

The more normal the Defense paints Westerfield, the more Damon resorts to his Mad-Dog mode.

The character witnesses for the Van Dams are real losers themselves. Did they have any normal friends?

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[MizSterious]

" Several neighbors, some camping buddies and a female friend Westerfield hung out with at a Poway bar have testified. In large part, they were "people who seem like nice, ordinary citizens," said San Diego lawyer Mike Still, a former prosecutor. "

I don't believe the jurors missed this point. Westerfield's friends seem like normal, decent people. The van Dams' friends, like the van Dams themselves, are white trash with California valley-girl accents.

And I stress the word friends to distinguish between other witnesses at the bar who didn't know Westerfield. Neighbors, though, all spoke well of him, and had visited or gone camping with him in the past.

Quick quiz: How many neighbors spoke well of the van Dams? How many said they actually knew them?