08:38AM
| @michaelbkiefer | Back in #JodiArias courtroom. Jennifer Willmott begins cross examination of Mesa PD detective Esteban Flores. | Twitter |
08:39AM | @michaelbkiefer | Willmott begins by asking Flores how many years he has been a police officer (21) and asks about rules for crime scenes and evidence. | Twitter |
08:45AM | @michaelbkiefer | Flores says that it is within evidence protocol to "wake" a computer and says he did so with Travis Alexander's at the crime scene. | Twitter |
08:49AM | @michaelbkiefer | Det. Flores says that Alexander murder was the first case he handled where he brought defense to look at electronic evidence. #JodiArias | Twitter |
08:54AM | @michaelbkiefer | Willmott walks Flores through a log of the police personnel who checked the computer out of the evidence locker. #JodiArias | Twitter |
09:02AM | @michaelbkiefer | Flores says he did not plug in the cord or turn on Travis Alexander's computer when defense came to look at it. #JodiArias | Twitter |
09:03AM | @michaelbkiefer | "I had a little bit of a concern," Flores says of turning on the computer, but, "I felt safe because we already had a copy." #JodiArias | Twitter |
09:05AM | @michaelbkiefer | Flores says he did a hard shutdown of the computer when defense was done looking at it. Doesn't remember if Juan Martinez looked at it. | Twitter |
09:06AM | @michaelbkiefer | "I don't remember anything about nude photos," Flores said. It wasn't an issue... at that time." #JodiArias | Twitter |
10:18AM | @michaelbkiefer | Smith says that the drive was damaged. Martinez is done. | Twitter |
10:18AM | @michaelbkiefer | "RT @TrialDiariesJ: Juan- What happened when you went to make an image from TA hard drive? Perry- It was damaged #jodiarias #3tvarias" | Twitter |
10:32AM | @michaelbkiefer | Willmott begins her cross examination of Smith, first asking about protocol in dealing with computers at crime scenes. | Twitter |
10:35AM | @michaelbkiefer | Willmott shows Smith a copy of Mesa PD policy and asks him to read to himself. | Twitter |
10:37AM | @michaelbkiefer | The policy clearly says to secure the area and not to turn computers on or off or open files or access registries or discs. | Twitter |
10:40AM | @michaelbkiefer | Willmott presses Smith on whether it's ok to wake up a computer from sleep mode at a crime scene. He says it is under some circumstances. | Twitter |
10:42AM | @michaelbkiefer | Smith admits that the best course of action is to take the battery out and cord off the computer. | Twitter |
10:42AM | @michaelbkiefer | RT @WildAboutTrial: Smith: There are reasons to waken a CPU from sleep at a crime scene. He did it once without a writeblocker. #JodiArias | Twitter |
10:44AM | @michaelbkiefer | Willmott gets Mesa PD computer guy Smith to admit that waking the computer changes files and deletes cache files, among other things. | Twitter |
10:46AM | @michaelbkiefer | Willmott then gets Smith to say it's a violation of policy to turn on the computer and presses him as to letting "civilians" do it. He balks | Twitter |
10:49AM | @michaelbkiefer | Willmott gets to the copies. "They're not the actual evidence are they?" Smith: "No, they're not." | Twitter |
10:50AM | @michaelbkiefer | Willmott asks if Smith has the exact image of the original hard drive at Mesa PD. Yes. | Twitter |
10:51AM | @michaelbkiefer | Willmott gets Smith to say that the drives he examined were copies that were worked on, not the original evidence. | Twitter |
10:51AM | @michaelbkiefer | RT @monicalindstrom: Expert:copies from Neu are nothing more than working copies, not images. not talking about the image/actual evidence. #jOdiArias | Twitter |
10:52AM | @michaelbkiefer | RT @WildAboutTrial: Willmott points out these copies or clones are meant to be worked on. Smith agrees. #JodiArias | Twitter |
10:54AM | @michaelbkiefer | Willmott asks if *advertiser censored* was found on the 2008 image. Long pause, then Smith says yes. And that it's not the same as the clones.
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10:55AM | @michaelbkiefer | Martinez redirect: Smith repeats that list of *advertiser censored* sites on registry doesn't mean the user went there. | Twitter |
10:55AM | @michaelbkiefer | RT @TrialDiariesJ: Perry- It's a describing link and Det. Brown did find some *advertiser censored* on the computer.#jodiarias #3tvarias | Twitter |
10:57AM | @michaelbkiefer | Martinez repeats that the incinerator file in the recycle.bin file could have been 70,000 deleted files. | Twitter |
10:58AM | @michaelbkiefer | Back to changes on Neumeister's working copy versus the original. Martinez calls it tampering. | Twitter |
11:00AM | @michaelbkiefer | Willmott objects that Martinez has the original and that the working clones are not relevant. Martinez calls them files that were changed. | Twitter |
11:00AM | @michaelbkiefer | "Counsel, please approach." | Twitter |
11:02AM | @michaelbkiefer | Back at 1:30. Willmott has more witnesses. | Twitter |
12:17PM | @michaelbkiefer | Gotta deal with a breaking story, so my colleague @anneryman is covering for me this afternoon in #JodiArias. BTW, I'm off for rest of month | Twitter |
12:19PM | @michaelbkiefer | @Tammybaby65 No, she was deliberately eliciting the answers she wanted. Lawyers do that. | Twitter |
01:06PM | @michaelbkiefer | Arizona Court of Appeals orders murder case dropped against Debra Milke on double jeopardy grounds and "egregious prosecutorial misconduct." | Twitter |
01:41PM | @michaelbkiefer | Appeals court dismisses Debra Milke murder charges http://t.co/cT91cPrvjS via @azcentral | Twitter |
01:44PM | @michaelbkiefer | Btw: reporters don't need the judge's or the prosecutor's permission to do interviews. | Twitter |
02:19PM | @michaelbkiefer | Go back to #JodiArias in time for Kirk Nurmi's last words. Coicidence: he compares Flores to Det. Saldate from Debra Milke story just wrote. | Twitter |
02:20PM | @michaelbkiefer | Sorry I missed hearing about everything I did. Had another story to write. | Twitter |
02:21PM | @michaelbkiefer | As Yogi Berra put it, "I never said half of the things I said." | Twitter |
02:28PM | @michaelbkiefer | Appeals court dismisses Debra Milke murder charges @azcentral http://t.co/cT91cPrvjS | Twitter |