I thought that Taylor wouldn’t allow them to be brought up during the criminal trial because MB didn’t positively know of their existence before the shooting incident, so they couldn’t have had an effect on his state of mind at the time.
And although MB may have suspected them, the bug sweeper he hired found no evidence of them and Taylor wasn’t going to allow a suspicion to be used as “evidence.”
I’m not talking about people off the street and what does 2 am have to do with this conversation? If you can expect that no one will ever walk in on you when you are changing your clothes in the tack room at your barn, that’s awesome for you, but that’s not the norm from my experience.
Not exactly. RG was at best working as a contractor. That does not make the barn/house his workplace.
If I hired someone to install some Sheetrock on my property, that does not give them the right to put upon a recorder and record me while they are not on site.
I can’t believe you are defending someone who put recording devices on someone else’s property. It’s like we are so far apart on expectations it’s impossible to bridge the gap.
You are not misrembering. The declaration of illegality was made by MBs attorneys and I’m sure they are aware of NJ law. Taylor already had a premise in which to disallow the recordings and it was an easy one for him. No need to be duplicative on that. But it was MBs attorneys who wanted them in. Schellhorn COULDN’T have them in based on he knew they were illegally obtained. At least that’s my understanding.
I’m sure Schellhorn would have LOVED to have them in if they proved conspiracy to commit murder being he lost the case in a big old hard way.
I replied to someone who mentioned undressing in a tack room. My subsequent replies have all been referring to privacy expectations (or lack thereof) in tack rooms.
The purpose of locker rooms (if you are talking about the kind you would find at a gym) is to provide people with a place to undress in relative privacy. The expectation of privacy is built into them, and no one needs to knock because the entrances are designed such that anyone can enter at any time while still preventing people on the outside to see what is going on inside the locker room. The purpose of a tack room is to store tack and equine supplies; they are not designed for the purpose of shielding naked people from those who are outside. Do people really not know all this?
I’m not arguing the changing in the tack room at all. Never mentioned it. That was someone else. The expectation of privacy I’m talking about is being in an area and having a private conversation without a 3rd party not involved in the conversation illegally recording you.
There is no way Schellhorn/Taylor wouldn’t have brought the illegal recordings in if they proved Michael was conspiring to murder LK. By now we all, except for just a few deniers, know the recordings are nothing burgers as far as bombshells for Ms Kanarek and her crew. The grasping for straws continue.
Well, RC supposedly brought the gun SPECIFICALLY for the event. And MHG SPECIFICALLY asked her to bring it. According to all the FB and CotH posting. MB was just supposed to be MHG’s fall guy it seems…and that’s why LK could possibly train with him again and would have been willing to help him out if he rolled on MHG.
No one thinks there was a conspiracy to commit murder. However, once LK was shot, incautious figures of speech could certainly take on an ominous tone. I don’t blame her for thinking it was a conspiracy. Also, if she was stressing and defensive to the point of thinking everyone was against her and felt they were after her, she might have thought she was recording nefarious goings on even though they may turn out not to be.
I think this all was a mass hysteria meltdown of epic proportions where everyone was freaked out, telling tales, making everything as lurid as possible and MB and LK were way too fragile for that kind of environment. She was acting out and he went insane and shot her twice.
It was a downward spiral of bad decisions that went bad in a terrible way. It was not one or the other, it was both.