I don’t think anyone necessarily thought there was already a bullet hole in the house prior to the shooting.
The point was more that based on the physical evidence, there was no proof that the bullet hole was a result of the shooting.
In the same way that there was no proof that there was even a third shot, since the crime expert testified that the bullet hole could have come from one of the bullets that went through LK.
Just as the physical evidence or (mostly) the lack thereof did not prove the LK/RG version of the events.
I wish others had been able to help long before that tragic day… and not just lawyers. Things obviously could not continue in that standoff - surely LK had friends (someone? anyone?) who could get through to her about moving to the new barn… just that action starting might have helped MB’s stress level. I do not have all the answers and neither do you. But that final outcome could have been avoided in a multitude of ways - from many angles.
You are very right. I stopped teaching for a while and started back with a boarding business. It makes me wonder if I can really screen people like this out.
So the alternates have to sit in a separate room and just basically twiddle their thumbs all day unless they have to come back in to the courtroom if there is a question from the jury? That does not sound like much fun.
I don’t think she has/had any such friends. Real life friends. She has a bunch of social media friends. But little in the way of real life friends, that anyone has identified. And her family clearly enables her behavior.
Well, some days it seemed like half of it was sidebars, so… Lol.
Although I guess the sidebars need to be transcribed, too. But not in such a hurry, since they don’t need to be available for the jury during deliberation.
It did seem odd that the prosecutor and the judge both seemed to immediately pooh-pooh the idea of giving any written material to the jury so they could verify their memory on the dates.
Why wouldn’t you want to make relevant information readily available to the jury while they deliberate?
Tangent. On the TV right now, they are talking about the subway shooting this morning in Brooklyn, and the police expert is talking about figuring out what happened at the crime scene from the shell casings, the physical evidence they can find, etc., etc.
It doesn’t sound like he would accept “That guy did it!” as proof of what happened.
Don’t even try the “tit for tat”? LOL! OK. Let’s try another look.
The SS complaint prompting the visit from DCPP was not for sexual abuse. MB interrupted that visit 3 times finally kicking them out of his office so he could get RC’s gun, load it, and go shoot LK 2X in the chest and at RG once. There has been testimony about MB’s deteriorating condition. That doesn’t sound like a weaponized SS complaint. It sounds like a good call.
Much of this is about SM trash talking, 19,000 pages of it. Ironically, at least one of the 100 that bothered him most was entered into evidence as occurring after the shooting.
He called USDF and USEF. MHG sent over 700 pages of unverified dirt their investigator pulled up to SS. For that matter, since MB tried to kill someone while DCPP was there then the SS complaints weren’t tit for tat. LK’s were verified and MHG’s was just throwing mud on a wall and hoping it would stick.
MB calling USEF and USDF was intent to stop her from participating in recognized shows not from her behavior at shows but from personal business reasons. It would have cost him a lot less to use the report and SM and the late night screaming to evict her instead of now using it to try to avoid a guilty verdict for 2 counts of attempted murder and gun charges. Did the defense manage to enter the late night screaming into evidence from MHG? I forgot.
He brought her in with no contract and went into a barter situation with no paperwork trail of time, material, and value. That puts RG as a house employee not an unlicensed contractor. Even with two completely stable and honorable parties, misunderstandings could cause issues. It was a disaster with these two parties.
Sorry, I was responding to the below posts and I read them literally. Perhaps people were just being hyperbolic but I think that when there are legitimate arguments about reasonable doubt in this case, it undermines those arguments to also throw in extreme hypotheticals. That’s all I wanted to point out.
I think the primary difference, Escada, is that you would not likely have boarders also living on your property as tenants, and therefore could get someone to leave a little easier, even if it was “People like this.” <3
I believe that on the very early threads 2 1/2 years ago, the subject of Clue did come up, along with some guesses involving the characters in the game.
IIRC, LK said the there was an abrasion on her side area that made the doctor think a 3rd bullet had grazed her torso (but had obviously not penetrated).
If that were the case, LK would had confirmed there was no 3rd shot intended for RG and thus, no 2nd attempted murder charge. Interesting.
I hate to say, but I don’t think we will ever truly know if there was a 3rd shot and if so, it’s intended path.
