I haven’t looked at the comments, but could it be RG? His first two names are Robert Guy. Or it’s her using a play on his names.
I’m just catching up on today’s events but I feel like it’s Michael , not Mr B that really doesn’t want to consider lesser charges. I feel like he thinks he has to be and will be exonerated. How that works out, we’ll find out next week.
For the record, I’ve never thought that Judge Taylor is biased against Michael Barisone. He’s trying to run a tight ship and Mr B is quite good at pushing the boundaries. If you take out any personal knowledge or feelings about any of the parties and just watch the legal aspects, quite frankly I’ve agreed with a lot of his rulings.
I’m glad I’m not on this jury. I feel for the people that are. It’s a heavy weight on them right now.
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If he doesn’t, then he’s a terrible defense lawyer.
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I was thinking about the comment by the Prosecution Expert witness… About MB feeling MHG didn’t find him attractive… Something like that…
Honestly, I think while it wasn’t nice, it may actually serve to show just how fragile and effected MB was by this campaign to ruin him.
As a member noted, they found him boastful, arrogant… Well before this situation.
This comment related by this expert shows just how very broken down he was at that point.
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The style is VERY similar to La-La’s style.
GirlJoey has also made a lot of comments about her history with LK in the comments, and Bob Abooey responds repeatedly.
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Style is her. I thought it might be a play on names at first, but @Ambitious_Kate mentioned LK was a Howard Stern fan. There was a producer of that show for a longtime, known as Bobba Booey…
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The past tense is spelled the same: secreted
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So in closing arguments, do they have to be limited to facts discovered in the case, or is it like opening where the lawyers can weave together a story?
Does it go in the order of prosecution-defense?
After we all hear closing arguments, someone should post a thread on what we think the JURY will say, not our personal opinions. We here on CoTH have seen a lot more than the jury has…
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I was thinking about that this morning. They have an unexpected day off today. I wonder if they are going about their regular lives, or sitting and staring off into space while they ponder what they’ve heard in the last two weeks.
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Oh wow. I hope Joey knows Bob is probably LK.
Poor Joey. LK just never ever stops.
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She posts to the effect she believes Bob is LK.
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Oh good. I missed that. I’m just looking at the Day 9 comments though.
I was willing to give the benefit of the doubt until the state’s psych expert. Taylor allowed him to ramble and pontificate way out of bounds and cite all the SM and events that he’s been hand-slapping the defense for trying to bring up for the entire trial.
It really came across as, “I don’t have to do anything because this is the state’s witness”….when for every witness the defense has to remind/caution about testifying “without stating the content of…”
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I also think that the judge perceives that regardless of how awful they show themselves to be, LK/RG are the “victims” and terrible or not, it makes him look bad if he allows victims to be “put on trial”.
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In my experience, I don’t find that odd.
One day several years ago I was bucked off in the middle of a lesson, riding a course. I went from passing the gate at the end of the ring to being on the ground in what I thought was a split second.
I don’t remember feeling the buck, flying through the air or landing on the ground even though I landed 12-15 feet away. (I didn’t have a helmet with a harness-and it moved—so I guess I hit my head). I got back on and rode the course again—I remembered the course 
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Unfortunately my trainer had their back turned and missed it.
To this day I can not drag up from my brain any part of the actual incident.
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That would sort of fit in with his comment from jail at the Zoom hearing a couple of weeks before the trial started.
He was responding to the judge’s questions throughout, but the thing he said most clearly towards the end when the topic came up of having the news crew from 48 Hours in the courtroom for the trial was, “I welcome the media!”
It was noticeably more assertive than anything else he had said that day, as I recall.
So maybe he was convinced then and is still convinced now that he will be exonerated by the jury. We shall see.
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Agreed. I could understand the judge’s unwillingness to allow much when LK and RG were on the stand, but Handlebars was just allowed to ramble off on a tangent with his personal interpretation of what he thinks happened that day … how is that not hearsay? He wasn’t there!
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The judge said there was no evidence of that.
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The mind sometimes acts to “protect” its owner by blocking horrible memories.
As an example, I was sexually molested at a VERY young age. I can remember the nature of the molestation, I can remember certain parts of the man’s body (his hands, his genitals, etc.) but I cannot remember his face, no matter how I try. I know my mind is protecting me from that part of the memory, so I don’t dwell on it.
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The diminished capacity is part of the imperfect defense where the attempted murder charges can be reduced to attempted manslaughter. Since New Jersey doesn’t have attempted manslaughter then it is aggravated assault or attempted aggravated assault. I am confused by the difference in aggravated assault and attempted aggravated assault.
