A BIG mistake was made by the prosecution in the Casey Anthony trial, (the number of hits she made searching for chloroform was wrong) and LE in MR's case have already stated they didn't examine evidence until a few days ago, IMO, that didn't look too good, whether the info was relevant or not.
They're human, mistakes are made, it happens, not so shocking to me.
MOO
They may have not looked at the Ipod until a few days ago, however I do not see the relevence. To me it is not evidence per say, as much as a window into TLM's lifestyle.The song the defense played for the court was not even on the Ipod, thus throwing our a red herring fallacy, to try and confuse the jury. To me that is more harmful to their case, then the crown not looking at an Ipod until recently. This Ipod she had does not have video on it and can not record others so therefore I do not believe it was a priority piece to examine for the crown. Especially since she is not on trial IMHO.
[BBM]You brought up some really interesting question Kamille. If his car was his baby as some suggested, why would he do such a shoddy if not laughable job? For someone who was conscientious about latest fashions and wore designer clothes, it's mind boggling as to why he did what he did to his car, his baby. DS was over last night for supper and a visit and I was showing him the evidence pictures and he literally LOLed and shook his head. He said he could see a young teen doing something like this to an old beater, but couldn't understand the mentality of a 28 year old male doing that unless his brain was fried on drugs or he was trying to cover something up such as a crime. Also from what he could tell the hood scoop is not real, it's decoration. That was his opinion.
There must have been a good reason MR did this to his car. I believe it was to disguise the bright blue colour it was. I wonder if MR had tried to abduct another child or children in the blue car and came very close to getting them. Is it possible he was afraid those children may have reported him in his blue car? Therefore by painting it black, that would take him out of the picture? I IMHO believe MR was up to no good way before TLM came into the picture and MR was unsuccessful in his previous attempts. Just like the PB case. PB started raping and attacking women on his own long before KH came along. But then he met KH and he found someone who was willing to take it to another level. I thank God every day these two were caught before they sought out anymore victims. :moo:
Ouch! I never said a word about planting evidence, was merely interested in how a drafting error in a media article could easily mislead a casual reader.
I doubt very much that anyone planted anything.
JMO
One man's trash, another man's treasure, what is irrelevant to you may be relevant to others.
MOO
Re:.the car: I don't think he was a ricer That is a shoddy, shoddy paint job and all the ricer cars I have seen are taken care of quite meticulously. Yes, they do some weird homemade "upgrade" but MRs car is a beater, plain and simple. It looks like he tried to make it uglier, not cooler. He also doesn't fit into the typical demographics. The paint job, imo, was done by a lazy person who doesn't know how to paint/ doesn't know about cars. <snip>
They may have not looked at the Ipod until a few days ago, however I do not see the relevence. To me it is not evidence per say, as much as a window into TLM's lifestyle.The song the defense played for the court was not even on the Ipod, thus throwing our a red herring fallacy, to try and confuse the jury. To me that is more harmful to their case, then the crown not looking at an Ipod until recently. This Ipod she had does not have video on it and can not record others so therefore I do not believe it was a priority piece to examine for the crown. Especially since she is not on trial IMHO.
[BBM]
To each his own. Maybe he thought it looked cool, or was going to when he was done with it. There's no accounting for taste. Wearing "designer clothes" is not indicative of good taste, just conformity. He may have been 28 at the time, but probably a teenager at heart from the drug use. JMO
Thanks for info on JW.
Does anyone think the $945 (or so) money in glove compartment was from selling drugs? Or I guess the cash labour business he offered.
One man's trash, another man's treasure, what is irrelevant to you may be relevant to others.
MOO
Did we ever find out if MR did the scoop and "paint job" himself or bought the car that way and was going to fix it up (work in progress)? With his limited means and most of the cash flow going for pills, a 6-year-old car must have been out of his price range, unless he bought it cheap that way.
I'm pretty sure that this is the sweatshirt that MR is wearing in his mugshot:
JMO
I thought it looked like he was wearing one of the CSI type thin paper suits like the one the mannequin is wearing in this photo (hard to tell though!):
(Photo 16 here: http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/raffertytrial/2012/04/05/19599891.html )
All of those circled areas look promising for forensic evidence - has there been any news about the coat in the trial so far? I may have missed it.
The labelling of the photos do not conclusively state that the shorts where found in her house at all. Interesting theory about a "plant" though. The police planting evidence or MR? I'm very interested. JMO The photos were easily accessible (made public) for anyone to compare and conclude that they are the same photos. JMO
I thought it looked like he was wearing one of the CSI type thin paper suits like the one the mannequin is wearing in this photo (hard to tell though!):
(Photo 16 here: http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/raffertytrial/2012/04/05/19599891.html )
All of those circled areas look promising for forensic evidence - has there been any news about the coat in the trial so far? I may have missed it.