Posted on 07/03/2002 3:36:43 PM PDT by FresnoDA
David A. Westerfield, 50, is charged with kidnapping and killing 7-year-old Danielle van Dam. He is also charged with misdemeanor possession of child pornography. Prosecutors have said the 80 or so images of child pornography taken from Westerfield's home indicate sexual interest in children.Defense attorneys are trying to show that the defendant is not responsible for the pornographic images -- including those of young children -- found on his computer equipment.
David A. Westerfield, a 50-year-old self-employed design engineer, is on trial for the kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam.
Lawson told jurors that he examined copies of hard drives, zip disks and compact disks made by police and took numerous screen captures -- essentially photographs of what came up on the computer monitor at a given time.
Defense attorney Steven Feldman asked Lawson if there was a theme to the animations.
"A considerable number of the screen prints showed bondage -- where women were tied in ropes," Lawson said.
A screen print of an e-mail to a DNWesthotmail.com, as quoted by Lawson, said: "Thanks for joining anime.com."
Lawson also confirmed screen prints the defense entered into evidence last week, that a computer in the office of Westerfield's house was used to access pornography on Feb. 4 at 4:47 p.m., when the defendant was busy with detectives.
Feldman mentioned last week's suggestion that the clock on the computer may have been doctored.
"Did you see any evidence that that happened on any of the computers you examined?" Feldman asked.
"No, I did not," Lawson answered. He said there's usually signs when a clock has been tampered with, such as files being accessed before they were created. Nothing like that was apparent on Westerfield's computers, he said.
Tuesday, San Diego police Detective Johnny Keene testified that he collected Westerfield from his Sabre Springs home that Monday around 3:40 p.m. and took him to the Northeastern substation in Rancho Penasquitos. The defendant remained there until approximately 11:30 p.m.
LOL--and Jaded could come with her "Free Ninja Dave" poster!
Ding, ding, ding! I think we have a winner. All that Layla testimony didn't make sense to me. Now I see. Layla provides a smokescreen for perhaps a lot of damning evidence. It seemed so silly to spend time at a murder trial talking about a poorly housebroken dog (guess BVD didn't have time for her, either), but not if that dog becomes a convenient patsy for a coverup.
Makes the mysterious dog bed that much more important, too.
Thanks for all the solid thinking you've put into this.
She has been very visible publically to be an undercover connection, hasn't she? But then this is a group who hope to get the death penalty for an unrolled hose and whiter whites! lol
Just be careful...have fun!
sw
No, it's not that people want to have it both ways. No one wants an innocent man convicted either..There again, prayer to God to prevent or stop that from happening! There are missing pieces to the puzzle, and the speculation, filling in the blanks...is imagining what the puzzle pieces are that are missing..and doing that is based on the rest of the puzzle pieces that are known. For example, The theory about the parents doing it would have a bit more validity if there were no blood and fibers in the MH, and dw's behaviour wasn't so different to the dry cleaner clerk ..that is based on known evidence.
I understand some of your alls theories as well...like danielle sneaking in the MH and bled a few drops. At this point, are we to assume that she went in by herself cuz there are no known playmates that have gone in there???
I remember early descriptions of her role saying that she helped the VDs understand police procedures and ways of doing things. How sweet and innocuous.
But given what we now know about the VDs and how much we know that we don't know (because they've lied/hidden so much), one can't help but think that she may have had a hand in all those fibers and hairs that weren't analyzed and compared, all those hand prints that weren't checked with the database.
And all the places in the MH that weren't dusted for prints. As if someone was told where to check for just the print they needed to nail DW. Kind of like the searchers went to Dehesa Rd. on a 'hunch.' It's amazing how the hunches just seem to pin one more piece of evidence on DW.
Could Halfman been coordinating 'leads' between the VDs and the SDPD? She would know how to word an interview to justify getting a Search Warrant......
Just wild speculation on my part.
I think DW was only trying to protect his son from the publicity concerning the kids porno exploration, because he never, ever dreamed it would go this far when he said it was HIS porno.
DW was acting like a father, sheltering his own son, but didn't know it was going to be the entire MOTIVE in a case against him.
sw
Remember, the whole purpose of focusing on his wilderness sojourn is to suggest that he did so to escape detection and dump her body somewhere. Nice choice of location!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why would DW (if he had killed her and carted her around) be concerned that someone find her remains????
If I had killed her, I assure you she would have been buried very deep in the most remote place I could find. I would never want the chance for the police or anyone to discover the body.
But old DW, he doesn't care. You see he has a turn of heart. He wants to now make sure that Busty Brenda and the Demon Seed have the chance to bury their child.
No way. Doesn't wash. Any person slightly above brain-dead (and I believe we know who that is) knows (just from watching television) that forensics can uncover a multitude of clues from any crime site.
DW was an intelligent person. He would have had to have known that by dumping the body where someone would eventually stumble across it he was inviting trouble.
Only two people would have benefited from her being found. Wonder who those two might be.....................?????????
sw
And if you had a body that needed to be secretly buried, would you first drive it around half of known creation in the most ostentatious vehicle ever devised by man??????
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