[MissAmericanPie]

Kim is going to ping Amore, I assume he/she is a lawyer or a legal aide and can shed some light on wheather admitting the parents lifestyle into evidence is appropriate, or if the Judge could/should have ruled it immaterial.

When all is said and done, the defendent has the victims blood and hair on him and in his vechicle and a history of child pornography. To muddy those facts with the parents lifestyle seems a lame thing to admit into evidence and an attempt to sensationalize to me, but I'm not a legal expert.

[bvw]

The process you describe is called rail-roading, or presumption of guilt. It occurs in law in some meaner places than ours.

[Amore]

You asked about the lifestyle issue. As Kim points out, that matter has been extensively litigated pretrial. In fact, that info is undoubtedly available here on FR thanks to Frez' copious research and posting of links to all pretrial pleadings and rulings filed in the case. The judge set parameters, and I don't see him being reversed over it. He is trying to be fair to both sides -- to let Feldman argue that there's many others who at least had opportunity to commit this crime vs. the argument that the parents are not the ones on trial. Sorry, I agree with the judge the evidence is relevant. But I disagree with many here in their conclusions and speculations about who else might have done it. Unless Feldman can show me a really shoddy police investigation, I'm going to conclude the evidence points to DW because DW did it. And I sure as heck am not buying without a lot of supporting evidence the ever-popular cry of most every criminal ever tried -- "I wuz framed!"

[Valpal1]

The Judge has statet that only the events of the night in question will be allowed. When the defense tried to ask about a halloween party, it was stopped.

The events of that night are germaine as are the relationships of all the persons in question, but I doubt that it will go much farther than that. The fact is, the number of persons and the arrivals/departures do narrow the windows of opportunity for the kidnapping to have occurred, and those times need to be established.

I do not believe the parent's sexual pecadilloes will in the end overcome the physical evidence in the MH. JMO.