I learned quite a few things today:
1. Kilgore and Rodriguez does not want the jury seeing evidence. One would think if this case was just about forgotten baby syndrome that their own hired expert would be enough to win for them. Why the need to suppress evidence or constantly debate about simply looking inside the vehicle Cooper died? Kilgore filed for a mistrial after the car viewing even though the conditions under which to view the car was his idea to begin with. He's the one who wanted the car viewed outdoors and not in a garage, but he still proceeded to argue against the entire thing because of the time of year and the weather. What the heck?
2. JRH not only lived a double life, his set up his electronic devices to keep his different lives separate. He had a hidden folder on his smartphone and appeared to use two separate browsers on his computer for the same purpose of keeping his live(s) separate. The browser he used to google certain things and access pages about divorce and jury selections was cleared. The other was not. I think anyone with two brain cells to rub together can deduce for themselves that JRH was covering his tracks from someone - if not his wife then the authorities. IMO JRH was leaving just enough information so as to not look suspicious.
3. In the middle of court today, JRH's own defense lawyer Rodriguez said JRH googled high schools because allegedly JRH is a referee. We don't know that for sure, but let's say it's true. It still looks bad because according to court evidence JRH is out having sex almost exclusively with barely legal teenagers and has been caught sexting with kids as young as 15. Not only he is targeting barely legal teenagers for sexual favors, JRH is now looking for high schools to be referee. It's not like JRH doesn't have enough to keep him busy. He's trying to start a company, right? He has church activities to attend to. He's got buddies to hang out with. He has a troubled marriage that needs to be worked on and a growing son to worry about. He can conceivably take up stamp collecting or some other "at home" hobby. If JRH is so worried about temptation then he should be staying far far away from every high school ever built. To me, that takes JRH out of the realm of "harmless pervert" (is there such a thing?) and squarely into the category of potential predator.
Nothing the defense has said has proven true yet. The defense, from the beginning, has said that JRH was a married father who wanted to have his cake and eat it too. We are finding that wasn't the case at all. JRH was an unhappily married man who saw his son as an impediment to the life he really wanted per his own text messages and advice to his extracurricular "friends." All evidence points to JRH being torn between the life he committed to and the life he really wanted live.
From the beginning the defense has said that JRH has no consciousness of guilt because he didn't delete anything from his devices. Welp, now we're learning JRH sure did delete a lot of stuff, particularly the stuff about divorce, jury selection, and getaway vacations with two adults and no child. The defense has a lot of explaning to do since they are the ones who are saying that JRH couldn't have possibly killed his own kid on purpose since he was planning on taking Cooper on the cruise.
Others have said it, and I'll say it too - this trial has been a complete waste of taxpayer dollars and JRH should have thrown himself at the mercy of the court instead of dragging out a jury trial. The fact that he has this much evidence against him and he still chooses to try his case before a jury shows he is once again trying to escape responsibility. Most normal people, when faced with a mountain of incriminating evidence would be like "okay, it's pointless to fight it, plea for leniency." This guy doesn't. JRH is so convinced of his own self-importance that he's willing to drag total strangers out of living their everyday lives to sit and listen to this pointless nonsense. I may have decided to waste my time listening to all this but nobody else in that courtroom did except for JRH and his defense attorneys whom have the gall to pretend he is innocent. I am not only sad for Cooper, I am absolutely sickened that this is happening at all.
