Defense just now finished, I'm for real this time
Boy was I wrong. Lisa Dubs just now finished. It's 3:40. I apologize for saying she was done by lunch. So, we will get back together in 15 minutes and Bellas will start. I bet we will not see deliberation today. The judge already said instructions would take 30 minutes. I doubt Bellas' presentation is shorter than 30 minutes. We'll just have to wait and see.
So, Dubs simply has gone over and over the facts of the case. She went over just about every single 39 witnesses the prosecution called to the stand. She mentioned Pyle testified he saw rigor mortis, but Stafford testified did not. "How can you people be completely satisfied and entirely convinced if they are not?" she asked the jurors. She pointed out that Kip Teal, Duncan, S.C., police officer, did not bring his notes when he testified. "Preachers don't go to church without Bibles. Do detectives go to court without files?" she asked. She questioned the decision not to have an interrupter when the Hispanics spoke, pointing out that even some jurors made it known they couldn't understand Martin Tellas. She pointed out that the first words out of Antonio Reyes' mouth were a lie when he did not give his true name.
And in the end, she talked about Jerry. She said Jerry has lost everything he's worked for since he was 13. He sat in jail and watched his farm liquidated. He dealt with not seeing his 12-year-old son and how to deal with that. "He watched his whole life be destroyed by their accusations," Dubs said. She said for the last 9 weeks, this has become the center of his universe. Now, the prosecution wants to make it smaller - an 18 x 18 cell. Then, they want to make it even smaller - the death chamber. She asked the jurors not to do that to Jerry. She asked them to look at everything in the box and know in the end, the state cannot prove murder, she said.
Bellas is up now. We shall see what he has to say to counter almost four and a half hours of defense closing arguments. I will be back around 5.
So, Dubs simply has gone over and over the facts of the case. She went over just about every single 39 witnesses the prosecution called to the stand. She mentioned Pyle testified he saw rigor mortis, but Stafford testified did not. "How can you people be completely satisfied and entirely convinced if they are not?" she asked the jurors. She pointed out that Kip Teal, Duncan, S.C., police officer, did not bring his notes when he testified. "Preachers don't go to church without Bibles. Do detectives go to court without files?" she asked. She questioned the decision not to have an interrupter when the Hispanics spoke, pointing out that even some jurors made it known they couldn't understand Martin Tellas. She pointed out that the first words out of Antonio Reyes' mouth were a lie when he did not give his true name.
And in the end, she talked about Jerry. She said Jerry has lost everything he's worked for since he was 13. He sat in jail and watched his farm liquidated. He dealt with not seeing his 12-year-old son and how to deal with that. "He watched his whole life be destroyed by their accusations," Dubs said. She said for the last 9 weeks, this has become the center of his universe. Now, the prosecution wants to make it smaller - an 18 x 18 cell. Then, they want to make it even smaller - the death chamber. She asked the jurors not to do that to Jerry. She asked them to look at everything in the box and know in the end, the state cannot prove murder, she said.
Bellas is up now. We shall see what he has to say to counter almost four and a half hours of defense closing arguments. I will be back around 5.
posted by THE HICKORY DAILY RECORD at at
3:40 PM
9 Comments:
The farm was liquidated?
Interrupter / interpreter? Even if it was unintentional, I love it. I'll start referring to them that way.
From what I've heard (heresay seems to be the key here) he didn't own the farm-just the fixtures and cattle. But did he 100% own the fixtures or just a portion since the other partners were never paid?
For lack of a better term, Uh... Yeah. Everything was taken by creditors or someone. Cattle and feed didn't stay more than a day or two after he went to jail. They liquidated everything and in a hurry! Again, another sad side effect of the "Let's rush to judgement" game the CCSD played.
Jeskps - He didn't own the land or buildings. He leased them. And if I'm not mistaken he leased the tractors and most all the equipment.
So, once he is found not guilty, how long will it take him to sue every creditor that has taken everything from him? Not to mention the huge dairy operation he was moving to in TN; that's most likely not going to happen now.
Usually, when it goes south, it goes fast.
That's a good question about sueing the creditors. But look at it this way, the creditors have a written agreement with him for him to pay so much, so often. If those terms aren't met they can take the equipment back, just like repo of a car. Since he couldn't make the payments everything went back. I doubt he can sue them, I'm sure he could sue those who put him behind bars though.
I doubt that, you would think prosecuters have some kind of protection. However, there is a civil case against the DA in the Duke case.
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