Barisone Verdict Is In: Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity

[ekat]

Me too. And I also know here in my city, the police escort you off the property until the owner (not the butler/boyfriend/groom/tenant) completed repairs and an inspector re-inspected and signed off on paperwork for owner to show cops that re-entry was authorized. It’s very mystifying.

[MHM]

@Rhythm_Pace_Impulsion

I’m just floored by the fact a building official would give an ok to return using proof from a post work hours email.

I’d like to know how any official could verify that it was a current and accurate video. Not an old video. Or an altered video.

I mean, it was more than 40 years ago that it looked like the weapons and the spaceships in Star Wars really worked. I’m thinking a video like this would be a lot simpler to doctor.

[ekat]

Right? How could he possibly know they were actually working? Even I, with minimal tech skills, could dub in the test beep sounds.

[Rhythm_Pace_Impulsion]

Or play them off a cell phone off camera

[ekat]

@Rhythm_Pace_Impulsion

Or play them off a cell phone off camera

That too.

[Rhythm_Pace_Impulsion]

The lack of due diligence and professionalism by so many of the NJ authorities is mind boggling.

[skydy]

@lazaret

Trying to stay out of it seems like a natural move.

…for someone who is taking the path of least resistance. Unfortunately that doesn’t equate with properly doing ones job.

As an inspector he could well have been liable if the house had burned down, which would have been worse than ending up on the witness stand, explaining that he took LK’s word that the house was now safe…

Edited to correct initials.

[Fiesta01]

@lazaret

Yup. I lost more than the figure being tossed around here in a divorce. And moved on with my life and so did my ex-husband.

Frankly my life was a lot more stressful when he was my STBx. It was a bit like Nicole Kidman after signing her papers, for me.

Hah! My horse brain kept seeing this as Standardbred Cross, which made NO sense. I had to read it a few more times to figure it out.

[skydy]

@Fiesta01

@lazaret

Yup. I lost more than the figure being tossed around here in a divorce. And moved on with my life and so did my ex-husband.

Frankly my life was a lot more stressful when he was my STBx. It was a bit like Nicole Kidman after signing her papers, for me.

Hah! My horse brain kept seeing this as Standardbred Cross, which made NO sense. I had to read it a few more times to figure it out.

[Fiesta01]

@LexInVA

Curiously, the local/regional media is pretty much ignoring the conclusion of the trial and the few write ups don’t really reflect what happened and why and almost lean favorably towards LK.

I’m 100 posts behind, and I’m sure that someone else has said this, so I apologize in advance. With her family’s connections in the area, I don’t find it curious at all. Unfortunately.

[Knights_Mom]

I still don’t know what STBx is LOL

Standerdbred Cross!

[Fiesta01]

The whole prosecution case was fishy. I have no idea why both a Grand Jury and the DA made the decision to prosecute with no forensic evidence and two liars as the only key witnesses. They had no case.

I honestly think the verdict should have been a straight Not Guilty on all charges. MB should have already been released. His loved ones could have already gotten him the psychological support he will need to make a full recovery.

But, he sits in jail. What a travesty.

[BrendaJane]

soon to be ex

[skydy]

Horsey people here. STBx will be interpreted as Standardbred cross on this BB, most likely than not.

[FitzE]

@Fiesta01

I honestly think the verdict should have been a straight Not Guilty on all charges. MB should have already been released. His loved ones could have already gotten him the psychological support he will need to make a full recovery.

But, he sits in jail. What a travesty.

I honestly feel this way, too. None of the pro-LK folks was brave enough to give me a straight yes/no answer to my question: would you be comfortable having a close loved one convicted on this evidence? I just don’t see anyone who is being honest saying, “Yeah, I know there’s no GSR, fingerprint, or DNA evidence to indicate who was holding the gun when it was discharged and, sure, the two people upon whom the story rests were shown to lie literally while on the stand under oath, and of the stories told by the 3 people purporting to tell me the story/timeline of events all differ in major/substantive ways (not small details), but nonetheless, I think it’s correct that my [father/brother/husband/son] goes to/stays in jail for this.”

I call industrial strength and the blatant evasion of merely answering that question as asked with a yes or no told me all I needed to know. Once you take the emotion of disliking MB/liking LK out of the equation and apply this complete lack of evidence to the situation, I do not see how a reasonable person could convict. I don’t think they ever should have gotten to the insanity stage b/c they simply didn’t show me the most basic information I needed: who was holding that gun when it was shot.

I don’t even need to think of all the various scenarios that could have happened. They fundamentally failed to prove to me that MB shot that weapon, let alone when and for what reason. They could have even shown me that LK/RG likely did not shoot the weapon. All they needed to do was swab everyone for GSR. But, nope, they didn’t even give me that!

But, it is what it is now and the State has a duty to him to get his care and evaluation sorted, get him into the least restrictive environment, and get him out and on with his new life which I hope is eventually even better than before.

[Fiesta01]

You’re my kind of horsewoman.

Edited to correct spelling of horsewoman.

[Fiesta01]

[LiberalSnowflake]

@CurrentlyHorseless

@eggbutt

Indulge me please while I address one more thing posted yesterday - that Lara Osborne ever fed me “inside information”. I became acquainted with Lara AFTER the shooting via Mary Haskins and her friends asking me to contact Lara to see how many of us in NC could help with anything needed. While I have known Lara was, and still is, very close to the case and is actually one of the “inside” people, she has never, not once, shared any confidential information with me. Neither has anyone else on Barisone’s immediate team. ALL of my information came directly from my experience with LK and MHG, the publicly available civil documents on line, and very careful listening to the online hearings. PERIOD.

The majority of my posts began with “I believe, suspect, think, wonder, etc.” If I knew something as fact I stated such. There is no doubt many of my posts hit far too close for comfort for the Kanareks to cause them to immediately push back and call me stupid, ignorant, and attack me personally with outrageous lies. When that happened, I, and others, knew my posts held nuggets of information they didn’t like.

In the past 2 1/2 years I have become friends with several more close friends of Barisone, and renewed old friendships that I made during my involvement with USEF/USDF and local state dressage organizations. Is that a crime against social media rules? I think not.

The post yesterday really set my hair on fire! How dare some troll on a social media forum attempt to besmirch the ethics of someone within Barisone’s inner team!! There are two posters currently active on this thread who need to get a life and stop their BS attempts to provoke. The trial is over. There is no new information to give. Move on until the Civil trials begin, mkay?

It’s clear to me that you have access to someone in Barisone’s inner circle. First, you had access to the letter from jail. Second, at one point you stated that CPS was contacted by SS, and asserted that CPS had definitely not been contacted by the police. That information – that CPS had been contacted by SS — was not in the public record at that time, to my knowledge.

I don’t know who your contact in the inner circle was, but I do think you have one. With the information that Lara Osborne was the one who closed up the operation and put things in storage after the shooting, and is now MBs partner, my guess is that she was the recipient of the letter from jail, and she would have the inside info on his defense.

Can I just say that I’m not in the USA, have zero connection to any of the parties in this case or anyone on this board - and I saw a copy of the “letter from jail”. LK, or someone purporting to be her, was sending copies of this letter to utterly random people in the dressage world, some of whom I know, who were baffled as to why they’d been sent it. The “letter from jail” sure as hell wasn’t a secret. LK, or the person purporting to be her, appeared to be circulating it to gloat about what a horrible situation MB was now in. Please don’t think “the letter from jail” knowledge meant that people were in some kind of inner circle of knowledge, I’m certainly not.

[Ambitious_Kate]

@trubandloki

Does anyone else wonder why Ed had the phone number of someone who was not a client of his?

Ed said he called LK (client) and when he did not get LK (because clearly he needed to talk to her right then?) he called RG (not client) to get her.

Why does this lawyer have the number of RG? Since he is paperless, better yet, why did he have this number available while he was driving?

Jaw drop. Yeah. How come?

[Ambitious_Kate]

@ekat

I feel kind of bad for Mr Schellhorn. He had a job to do. He gave it his best effort. But that job sucked for him. Unreliable, dishonest witnesses, witnesses that make the defendant look like a pretty decent guy, cops that didn’t do their jobs, one witness with no concept of time, and the Moustache.

Oh, gawd, I had to quote this to get a repeat on this list of the witnesses. Well described