Hey logicgirl for old times sake: Ride Sally Ride....
Meet Sally Karioth, grief expert for the defense. Apparently Sally popped a Zanny right before she came into court. She did pretty good for the first 15 to 20 minutes and then all of a sudden that benzodiazepine kicked in and Sally was off on a magic carpet ride (or a magical thought carpet ride). Before it was over I was actually cheering her on for not face-planting on the witness stand – Ride, Sally, Ride! It was something to behold. BUT, the stoned grief expert isn’t the story of the day on this part of the testimony for yesterday. The story of the day is what the defense’s line of questioning, courtesy of Dorothy Sims, allowed the State to do.
See here is how it went (leaving out all the qualification hilarity like Ms. Karioth thinking the editors at Barnes & Noble reviewing her portion of a commercial book is considered being “peer reviewed” ). Dorothy Sims precedes to ask Ms. Karioth to render her “expert opinion” on a hypothetical situation. This resulted in the longest compound question and run-on sentence in the history of the US judicial system (I haven’t fact-checked that so don’t run with it). Puffalump got in ALL of the defense’s ludicrous scenario (as presented by Baez in the opening statement) in this one hypothetical situation. It had sexual molestation, angry brothers, conspiring mothers, accidental drownings…the works, including Casey being an amazing mother. Then Dot asked Karioth, who couldn’t even follow a pen-light in a sobriety test at that point, is this representative of grief? And Karioth snapped out of her stupor long enough to slur out a long rambling answer replete with slow speech and a lot of hand waving.