Barisone Trial Starting Monday, 3/28

[soloudinhere]

Our local courthouse has been arguing about whether it’s full of fatal mold or not for about the last decade.

Apparently during the covid absences the mold gained a stronger foothold and now appears to possibly be winning the debate.

[EmilyM]

I watched the testimony of the two victims. I am very confused as to what happened as told by them. I found L hard to follow because of her speech patterns and circling answers. R less difficult to follow speech pattern wise, but i still have no clear picture in my mind of the event. I suppose the jury can read the court transcripts to clarify? I also imagine that it’s hard to be entirely sure what happened when you had a traumatic event. Like if you are in a car accident sometimes it feels like all of a sudden car is hit and the rest is kind of fuzzy.

I don’t know how much relevance that has to the outcome given the approach of insanity. Now for self defense it may but no evidence was provided to demonstrate the defense’s theory as the judge notes it’s a wild theory w no hard evidence submitted. I wonder what the defense presentation will show. But it appears no evidence exists to support that the defendant was attacked first. Not saying it wasn’t possible but it has to be demonstrated somehow other than by innuendo.

[Knights_Mom]

@trubandloki

@Knights_Mom

I can tell you that court workers freak at the sight of bed bugs especially and we do all we can to stay as far away from the public as we can.

Maybe if you vacuumed more frequently, these things would not happen.

Can’t vacuum and post on COTH simultaneously!! In the past at least.

[Knights_Mom]

@EmilyM

I watched the testimony of the two victims. I am very confused as to what happened as told by them. I found L hard to follow because of her speech patterns and circling answers. R less difficult to follow speech pattern wise, but i still have no clear picture in my mind of the event. I suppose the jury can read the court transcripts to clarify? I also imagine that it’s hard to be entirely sure what happened when you had a traumatic event. Like if you are in a car accident sometimes it feels like all of a sudden car is hit and the rest is kind of fuzzy.

I don’t know how much relevance that has to the outcome given the approach of insanity. Now for self defense it may but no evidence was provided to demonstrate the defense’s theory as the judge notes it’s a wild theory w no hard evidence submitted. I wonder what the defense presentation will show. But it appears no evidence exists to support that the defendant was attacked first. Not saying it wasn’t possible but it has to be demonstrated somehow other than by innuendo.

There is evidence. It’s in front of everyone’s eyes. Not posting what it is though. Just watch the trial.

[Angela_Freda]

@PDDT

I wonder if LK has a learning disability. She seems to struggle with sequences and really had to focus to read a few lines. I wondered at first if she needed reading glasses but didn’t want to wear them on the stand

I attribute that to the drug use. People who use young, and for a prolonged period of time tend to have stunted maturity (around age they started) and it doesn’t catch up much once drug use stops, sadly.

[mydogs]

From my own experience (yay being a female), I don’t believe blood fades out of clothing after 2 years.

[Einhorn]

@Dragonfly90

Are people that are arrested that show signs of having mental issues(to the degree MB is demonstrating in court) just thrown into jail and not providing any treatment for years? T

I didn’t see if anyone else has answered you, but yes, this can and does happen. It depends on the place of incarceration, if you’re in jail, meaning you’re awaiting trial, there are no mh services in most places. There’s some medical care, though.

If you are serving your sentence then there usually are services, but again it depends on the prison and your conditions.

[MorganSercu]

@Angela_Freda

attribute that to the drug use. People who use young, and for a prolonged period of time tend to have stunted maturity (around age they started) and it doesn’t catch up much once drug use stops, sadly.

Particularly when they don’t choose to work very hard at acquiring appropriate social skills, staying clean/sober and don’t appeae to want to hit normal social benchmarks with their cohort. I guess she has no incentive to do any of that though as the financial well is deep.

[eggbutt]

@DreadPirateRoberts

A few observations on the court proceedings offered by the crew of the Revenge:

There is something we should know. Michael Barisone is not right handed.

The Dog appears to be at least as large as an ROUS, and we all know that even tough guys like Count Rugen won’t even enter the Fire Swamp for fear of those beasts.

Only fools think starting wars is a prestigious line of work. It’s a marvelous jest when these buffoons balk at acknowledging how little work they do or how much their fortunes depend on luck or other people.

Vizzini had the slightly less well-known classic blunder all wrong. It’s not, “never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line”, but rather, “never go in against a vindictive New Jersey layabout when your sanity is on the line.”

Mostly dead is, in fact, still slightly alive and LaLa is lucky to have reached the good doctor in that state. Alas, it seems like her reason for clinging to life really did have more to do with “to blave” than “true love”.

LaLa’s need to be seen as a mental giant in spite of her diminutive physiqe (to say nothing about her intellect) reminds me of another warlord I used to know… Perhaps there is more of a resemblance than I initially acknowledged between the trio that abducted Buttercup (self-important Vizzini, useful idiot Fezzik, and revenge-thirsty Inigo) and the three whose text messages have been mentioned so much in court (LaLa, Mr. Fixit, and PaPaPopRider).

And, as always, lies do not become us.

BEST POST EVER!

[Sdel]

@LiberalSnowflake

If it is who I think it is, and I’m just surmising here, I don’t think we’ll see him and all of his insider knowledge again.

Happy to be proven wrong though.

I hope your right.

[eggbutt]

I’m wondering how 48 Hours might be scrambling how to mesh Lauren’s interview with her testimony?

[Einhorn]

You know a young woman of means is glorified by advertising. Who would want to leave that part of their life? Being a young, attractive woman, dewy with her fresh emergence into the adult scene is what everyone afford to be! Women want to be her and men want to do her.

Don’t deny it! /s

[MorganSercu]

Not easy to pull off, particularly when over 40. But as a lowly burger flipper am I in a position to criticize the “job creator” class?

[MHM]

Ok, does anyone have a phone number for the courthouse so we can call and tell them to move that Covid shield out of the way of the live stream camera? Lol.

[Libby2563]

@EmilyM

I suppose the jury can read the court transcripts to clarify?

The jury almost certainly won’t be provided with an entire transcript of the trial. Transcripts are expensive, take time to produce, and are generally prepared after the fact. (Attorneys/parties may sometimes have informal transcripts produced each evening to help them during an ongoing trial but I think that’s more common in high-dollar commercial litigation.) Jurors are supposed to take notes and rely on their memories. So yeah, all of the discussions we are having here about who said exactly what, when, and what did it mean really…they will be having those during deliberations as well.

[Sdel]

[chancellor2]

@PDDT

I wonder if LK has a learning disability. She seems to struggle with sequences and really had to focus t

I don’t know. I rather think that she is taking her time answering Balinkas’s questions because she doesn’t know what he is going to ask her. When she answers the prosecutor’s questions, she answers them fairly quickly. I don’t have a high opinion of her but in my opinion, I think she is smart to take her time. She’s got a lot of lies, fibs and social media posts to keep straight!

[LexInVA]

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[Angela_Freda]

@mydogs

From my own experience (yay being a female), I don’t believe blood fades out of clothing after 2 years.

This was exactly my thought, experience with menstruation.
If you immediately rinse it with water (ie rain), it might fade but generally it doesn’t go fully away.
Same with blood from injured animals or surgery in animal hospital… Unless you immediately wash it, apply peroxide, etc, simply rinsing with water (rain) there will be a faint stain or ring

Unless you immediately put in wash with an enzyme cleaner, etc.

[Syrynx]

ETA: I’ve been following this thread and the trial on tv while supposedly working from home. Thanks to everyone explaining the details of the legal process!