Fire Marshall: He (MB) was sobbing.
Balinkas: Crying?
FM: Sobbing.
Dramatic pause
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Fire Inspector
Fire marshal asked him to come for a ride along on August 6th. Met MB for the first time.
Describes MB as very upset, started sobbing. Crying. Why?
Drink up, we’ve got a sidebar!
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Nice tie Heerwagen.
Wow. Now the retired fire fighter testifying to Barisone sobbing on 08/6
Another good witness. This guy is down to earth, and not dramatic. You don’t get the sense he would exaggerate
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Next witness is retired fireman who went to the farm on August 6th with other town officials to inspect the property for possible fire code violations. Did not know MB, had never seen him before, but observed him break down and sob before long.
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Did they determine who was doing the construction? That was more his boss.
Cross
Was visit announced to MB beforehand? No, he doesn’t know if it was, but knows it was 2nd in the SAME DAY - went back to issue construction violations.
There was a construction official there too.
He was asked to come as a second party as Fire Marshal wanted someone with him. He didn’t see exactly the problems were
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The attorney’s call records I believe were submitted as evidence to support the lawyer’s testimony. The Jurors will be able to review it.
Actual evidence will clear up a lot of the confusion or questions that the defense keeps throwing out to try to muddle things or the seemingly contrary answers by witnesses.
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unless they put in a driveway alarm…I don’t think so.
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You mean that “wanta-be junior mobster bodyguard/hit man” vibe?
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Did they ever dust the gun for finger prints or test RG & MB’s hands for residue?
LOL yeah it’s the Defense muddling things up. As if.
Projection.
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The camera on the outside of the house didn’t do that?
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They did not fingerprint the gun, and they only tested MB hands.
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Lopez - The other Fire Inspector (that wanted the ride along when he went back to the property)
August 6th - responded to MBs farm due to complaint. Two people signed complaint. They did not contact the complainants first.
Does complaint accurately depict reasons - stated fire code violations at the property. Objection… hearsay?
SIDEBAR
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I figugured he hung up to call 911 in some form, having to pull over.
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New witness ? Lopez. Fire department inspector who went to the farm on August 6th in response to complaint from LK/RG about fire code violations.
Sidebar (again!). Prosecutor objected to entering LK/RG complaint document into the record.
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How can a signed complaint document be heresay???
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So thinking about this more, I still don’t think that testing the blood on her hands would tell anyone much of anything. It’s likely to be a mixed sample of hers and MB’s because those were the two people bleeding at the scene and there was a scuffle. Even if the blood wasn’t rushing down her arms when she says it was, she probably touched her wounds at some point before anyone could have tested her hands.
Let’s say for the sake of argument that the blood on her hands was tested and it was MB’s, not hers. Well, there’s no practical way to test all of the blood. You can’t send 1,000 swabs to the lab, and one or even a few swabs can’t rule out that some of it was her blood. You would be trying to prove a negative. Does that make sense?
I feel like a lot of people are looking at the forensics from an unrealistic or ideal-world perspective, not a real-world perspective complete with technical, fiscal, and practical constraints. Maybe someday in the future we will be able to test every drop of blood on someone’s hands and say who it all came from, but that day is not here yet.
Am I still missing something?
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Just MBs hands I believe. No other dusting or GSR evaluated
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Good question.
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