Bringing this over from the last thread. Again, I found this hearing fascinating. (The judge, once again, had to rule she did not find JM to be "snarky" And the judicial asst info blew my mind!)
My favorite JM quotes from the October hearing:
“According to Mr. McGee, when he viewed this *advertiser censored*, he saw an eight year old girl. Well, how do you know it’s an eight year old girl, unless you what? Count the vaginal rings or something?”
“Not only did I CALL Mark McGee a liar, he IS a liar. … I’ll stand up on the tallest steeple and scream it out because I know that is a fact. He is making things up and I can prove it.”
Oh - something else I discovered. The infamous pinwheel drawing? I think it was pulled off the Art website before it sold, but it is a mandala - taken from The Mandala Book of Coloring Pages for Kids and Adults. Another original drawing from Arias the Artist!
Also Ben Ernst (yes, the one that just got shot at while DUI) is apparently the Arias tweeter - no longer Donovan.
So perjury charge for J17 since it's been determined she lied during voir dire? How else can the state prevent this from happening in the future?
I think they should put jurors names through the system and see what comes up, this woman's former names and names of ex-husband would be there, then look at that history and court records.
Someone who is there with an agenda is going to lie in voir dire, their word is clearly not enough .. when it comes down to the final 12 plus alternates all potential juror statements should be looked at to make sure they have been telling the truth, the fact this woman lied about her ex-husbands past criminal history (timings etc) would have, at that stage, been enough to remove her for cause, as would the connection to Juan.
Right, so there should be repercussions for lying under oath. It's one thing to decide to do a bunch more work in the future but what about the juror in front of you who you found out lied? Prosecuting her for perjery to the fullest extent allowed within the law might be a lesson to others to not try to do this and expect to get away with it.