Good morning all - I’m curious to see how Ms. Hansen will perform this morning. Someone on Twitter commented that she was adamant that a threatening/yelling crowd would not impact her job performance as a firefighter/medic and that she’d be able to focus on the task at hand but she was easily rattled and lost her cool under a pretty tame, relatively speaking, cross exam.
The more I think about it, the more I feel like this was a prep failure by the prosecution. Even with Williams. Being a witness in a criminal case is so rare for most people let alone on such a high profile, highly political, emotionally charged publicized case. People need to be prepped on how things go and what a leading question is and how to answer it. It protects the witness emotionally and it also makes the state look better. State has 11 lawyers, no one sat down with Ms. Hansen? I can’t imagine she would’ve been so unnerved if she was prepped properly.
Again, broken record, but this further illustrates how prosecutors can perform so poorly on these cop trials. And these are experienced prosecutors but something happens during these cop trials. Maybe too many cooks? Too many ppl with say so - breathing down their necks? Is it really necessary to have 4 different attorneys questioning bystanders? This should be the easy peasy part. One attorney can’t handle all of this testimony bc it’s basically the same thing over and over?
