Barisone Trial Starting Monday, 3/28

[Sdel]

Remember, MHG has already testified that she was using recognizable parts of their private conversations in her SM posts and texts.

[EADoug]

I feel like Taylor gave a fairly rational explanation at the end and gave Balinkis a few openings to get at what he wants to. Boils down to what ReI6 stated - it’s the illegal/not illegal/counsel said I could that is the problem. He can certainly explore if she lied about it, and he can ask if she ‘fears prosecution’.

[CanteringCarrot]

So I can just say a “lawyer told me…” and it’s fine. Wow, this just changed my life.

[LexInVA]

She literally said “MY DADDY SAID I COULD, SO I DID!”, with complete seriousness.

[CanteringCarrot]

@Rel6

Whether or not she illegally recorded him doesn’t actually matter for the issues being tried. It doesn’t go to whether he shot her; it doesn’t go to self-defense or insanity. She recorded him. The judge’s point is that how could it have mattered to MB whether the recording was illegal or not? Was it the fact that the recording was done illegally that pushed him over the edge? If it had been done legally would MB have said “oh, well that is fine then?” Judge says the fact that she recorded him secretly is relevant - but whether it is legal or illegal is not.

Ahh got it. Sorry, I haven’t been watching the case consistently.

[eggbutt]

Agreed, except for the insinuations all this time that it was all on the 911 call. For sure we now 100% know to take her posts with a healthy dose of salt.

[Sdel]

So…still not really seeing anything new that hasn’t been discussed before between IM and LK.

[MHM]

@soloudinhere

Prosecutor has to be cringing internally.

I’ll bet that’s happening a lot!

@Libby2563

Another sidebar almost right away…

They could practically cut the length of the YouTube trial videos in half if they edited out all the sidebars.

[MHM]

@LexInVA

No sidebar drinking games!

Omg. We’d all be blacked out by this time, if not dead.

[Sdel]

@endlessclimb

That smirk shows she knows exactly what she was doing there.

No, she thought she knew what she was doing. The rest of that post conveys anything but that she’s an innocent little Angel. It seems to me that she was projecting about RC’s gun and that she’d make MB mad enough to hit her to justify killing him.

[CurrentlyHorseless]

@eggbutt

@Angela_Freda

Michael seems very stressed

He’s having to relive the nightmare at HIS PROPERTY plus having to listen to a 911 call that he hadn’t heard before of him being beaten almost to death.

Speaking of the 911 call, I didn’t hear any gunshots, did any of you? So WE STILL don’t know what happened, do we?

Good grief. The gunshots were made prior to the 911 call. The gunshots will be heard on the ear witness call.

[eggbutt]

Oh goody!

[MHM]

@CurrentlyHorseless

Good grief. The gunshots were made prior to the 911 call. The gunshots will be heard on the ear witness call.

The ear witness call recorded the gunshots?!?

[supernatural]

When you throw the police dept under the bus​:joy:

[DownYonder]

@Libby2563

Judge says since she was relying on legal advice, right or wrong, she would not be prosecuted.

Wouldn’t the Bar take a dim view of an attorney giving his client (daughter, whatever) erroneous legal advice? Especially about something so egregious?

[RND]

She really needs to answer these questions with fewer words. Even her answers to simple yes/no questions drag on and on.

[supernatural]

The men on the jury are not going to buy this.

[ASB_Stars]

She is saying that she sought out legal advice. She’s the daughter of an attorney. So, she ought to know what to say about that. However, what bothers me most is that the Judge accepts it. There isn’t any actual information as to who she spoke to. Daddy, or her counsel? If she really did discuss it with anyone.

[ASB_Stars]

@Jealoushe

It all boils down too - it doesn’t matter because of the insanity defense. It matters if it effected MB and whether it was legal or illegal does’t effect that.

He gave him a few ideas how to move forward with questioning, a lot of coaching.

You mean to say “affected”.

[Jealoushe]

@supernatural

The men on the jury are not going to buy this.

It doesn’t matter, what matters is if it pushed MB mentally to the edge.