I’m not on the side of M. Means with his recent letter, and all that he was demanding the State to provide as soon as possible, but I did find it interesting that J. Prior in Chad’s hearing today, too mentioned not having all Discovery from the State. From one of Lori’s virtual hearings Means had made a comment that made it seem like there was many, many gigabytes of digital data that was yet to be handed over (this was months ago now). It’s clear the State has a lot of digital evidence which certainly won’t end up helping Chad or Lori much, I doubt.
Prior’s argument today against joinder was already pretty weak, and I’m sure he had an idea going into it today that the cases would be joined but he certainly tried for his client. I agree with others, now Prior will likely be carrying bulk of their work behind the scenes since he’s the only one with relevant and actual defense experience. This will certainly be an interesting trial when it finally comes up.
