Oooh Yes Please Truth, I didnt get to hear it. Are you a transcriptionist?! You are fast!
Ssejors: Not really, but I did make every effort to make it accurate. No guarantees, though. Also, I'll make two posts because it is very long. Mods, if you find this is unacceptable, please delete with my appologies.
I found this a really interesting show. Thank you to Levi, also.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/levipage/2011/02/23/levi-page-show
At about 25:25
LP: And Holly, you know, they also want to, they have also said that they want to call Kathi B., who is a local reporter for WFTV, there in Orlando. Ah, she has been very hard hitting on this case. She has questioned Jose B. a lot of times outside of the court house; and, they have, you know, her and Baez have gotten into it a little bit, because she is such a hard hitting reporter. Why do you think he wants to call a member of the media to the stand? Do you think that he is trying to get her thrown out of the court house so she cant attend the hearingthe trial, because she is a witness?
HH: Well, you know, that is very likely. Although, what he is going to have to do is present what they call a proffer to the Judge; and, say to the Judge the reason that she is a witness is XYZthis is what I expect she is going to testify to. And, here is the problemshe doesnt know anything that everybody else doesnt know. She is reporting it; she is not out there doing her own investigation. I mean, I know, that being an investigative journalistcertainly they go out and they talk to people, and they try to locate people on their own. You know, I mean they are investigators of a sort; but, with respect to the actual murder and things of that natureshe doesnt have anything she is going to be able to testify to. He is probably just, you know, sick of her telling the truth in the press. You know. I mean, what is she going to testify tothat he is confused? Yeah, I agree with that. Yeah, thats right, Judge. I mean, shoot, I could testify to thathe cant keep me out of the court room. So, I dont know why he is thinking he needs to do that. But, youre right. It is probably tactical. He probably is just sick and tired of her, you know, putting him out there like thatand so he is trying to do that. But the Judge isnt going to fall for it; because, lets face it; this case has been wide open to the media since day one. It is clear that the media is going to be able to continue to be in there, and its a public court room. He cannot keep her out of there; unless, she is a witness in that particular motion; or in that particular trial. And, I dont see anything he can proffer to the Judge as being good enough to satisfy Judge Perry.
LP: Yes, and again, what do you think about the defense saying the smell of death that was in ICAs trunkwhat it really waswas a trash bag that had rotten food in it. Thats what the smell was. You buy that?
HH: Quite frankly, I think its laughable, Levi. I think its laughable. Okay, you know what, I have smelled decomp; I have been on murder scenes; I have been around dead bodies that have been laying around for a couple of days. I have been on crime scenes days after a decomp has been removedand there is no way in he!!, Levi, that anyone is going to mistake rotting food for a rotting body. Im sorry, but when you smell decompyou will never, ever, ever, ever forget that smell. There is nothing like it in the world and Ive smelled some rotten food. Okay, let me tell you somethingand Ive smelled decompand they are not even close.....
LP: Remember at first they said that CA gave the theory that it was a dead squirrel, and then we heard that it was a box of pizza, some pizza, that was left in the trunk. And one of the local news stations, Holly, actually tested pizza, they put it in the back of a trunk for a long period of time, in the hot Florida sun; and, then they took it out and it had no smell to it at allit smelled like nothing. Nothing.
HH: Well, exactly. I mean, come on, Levi. What is it? Its breadokay, which doesnt smell when it goes badit might mould, okay? And its tomatoes. Okay, what happens to tomatoes? They are out in the hot sun all day longwalk past a tomato patchthey dont start to stink when they rot. They just rot and fade back into the dirt. But, here is the deal with this, legally speakingthis goes to the weight, not the admissibility. So, when you are arguing before the Judge and you are saying it shouldnt be allowedthere has to be an evidentiary rule that you are basing that argument onyou have to say: It is more prejudicial than probative, you know, Judge. Its a balancing test. There has to be some reason for excluding it. Cindy, herself, who is a nurse, said it smells like there has been a da** dead body....
LP: They want that excluded as well. Just throw out everythingnobody can testify. That is what they are saying.
HH: Right. That is exactly right. (unintelligible) Now, here is the deal, they can put that evidence up, they can put CA up and say: Well it was a rotting pizza; well it was a dead squirrel. Cause, you know, I ride around with dead squirrels in my trunk all the time, I dont know about you, but, you know. I mean, come on. Really
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LP: Yeah. (Chuckles)
HH: Really. How did a squirrel get in there in the first place? I mean, let me tell you somethingsquirrels are nasty animals. You arent locking a squirrel in a trunk unless it attacks you, okay. You are going to be all torn up. So, put it up. It goes to weight, not admissibility. Let a jury hear itand let a jury decide if its credible. If a jury believes CA that it was a rotten pizza or a dead squirrelfine. But, you dont exclude: number 1) the evidence of it, and number 2) the fact of what she said. She was not being interrogated. This was a voluntary statementits been reportedthe whole world has heard it by now. So, these motions that he is filing are not even legally substantiated. Which is...
LP: What do think, Holly, about all these nut jobs that, ah, they are saying that they searched the area where the body was found before ICA was in jail; and, it wasnt there.
HH: Well, you know. Maybe they are just not very good at searching. But, bear in mind, Levi, there was all that water, and it had to recede, and it had to go down, so you know whatif that was under waterthey are not out there trudging around in hip waders. I can tell you that. Anybody who is going: Yeah, I helped search. Well, good for you--but you didnt find it, did you? It doesnt mean it wasnt there. It just means you didnt do a very good job. You probably didnt get out your hip waders and fish around in the bottom of that disgusting, swampy, cold, nasty, wintery water. You know? I, just, again...