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This is this afternoon's cross-examination, in a nutshell.
Crown prosecutor: Did you ask him about ___? Watts: No, I did not.
7:51pm - 18 Nov 14
I found this tweet from @salimah_shivji amusing
So those were the pictures of LM and JL together! Were they just normal pics, or sex pics or what? :/
You can't really blame Watts for not asking all that, he's not a police officer and I get the impression that trying to get answers about anything out of LM was like banging your head against a brick wall :banghead: It probably took hours and hours and hours of coaxing just to get LM to say anything at all about the day of the murder.
Thanks. Guess he was in a state of psychosis then too. This is a very frustrating and disturbing case to follow and this defense is doing a massive disservice to the truly mentally ill, imho. Not that I don't believe LM fits the criteria for a few diagnoses, but he certainly planned this and knew exactly what he was doing.
The problem I have with that is it seems that LE were not given access to LM for a forensic assessment. So there has been no official interview or interrogation of him due to his "sensitive mental issues". And in lieu of an interrogation or interview, LE should have at least been allowed to send in a forensic psychiatrist to ask these questions and get it on film. We know LM would have just refused to answer or said I don't know to everything but the jury should at least have been able to see it.
suemontgomery ‏@MontgomerySue · 4m4 minutes ago
Did you ask him why he used the username Catherine on his computer? No. Did you ask him about Manny in Basic Instinct? no #magnotta
suemontgomery ‏@MontgomerySue · 4m4 minutes ago
Watts rented movie Basic Instinct last year because he was working on #Magnotta case. Didn't ask M about it, he volunteered the info
salimah shivji ‏@salimah_shivji · 3m3 minutes ago
Watts didn't ask about Basic Instinct but #Magnotta volunteered info about film & Sharon Stone. He used name Sharon when escorting in '08-9.
suemontgomery ‏@MontgomerySue · 3m3 minutes ago
Did he tell you that he went by the name Sharon at one point? I don't recall that. Judge points out reference in report #Magnotta
suemontgomery ‏@MontgomerySue · 3m3 minutes ago
In 2008-09 #Magnotta used name Catherine when working as an escort. As teen dressed up in g'ma's clothing.
It's weird that the fax about JL's head hasn't really been mentioned either... Couldn't the defence use that to show that LM was co-operating and feeling remorseful? Ian Brady and Myra Hindley would never ever ever have revealed the location! Poor Luka... failed model, failed pornstar, failed escort, failed necrophiliac, failed cannibal, failed psychopath, failed serial killer. He really can't do anything right, can he?
Even his imaginary friend doesn't talk to him any more. :giggle:
Totally agree!!! The Crown really seem to have dropped the ball in many ways IMO. I just don't understand it. It seems like the Crown has not ever attempted to question LM at all.
I completely agree. Particularly Dr Allard, who seemed to be arguing that it's not surprising that LM did all these horrendous things - he has schizophrenia :gaah:
I wish the Crown would ask some questions relating to schizophrenia though... I guess they will still be bringing in an expert witness later? They need to give us another motive besides psychosis! and paranoia and show some evidence of LM's attention-seeking, obsession with serial killers etc. Not just "Why did he put a shower curtain on the bed?". Why did he upload a trailer!?!?! That's the important question!
LM doesn't have to say one word to LE, the Crown or any psychiatrists they send his way. Not much prosecutors can do about it and it allows LM to basically testify without taking the stand. The crown can't really cross examine what he said either.