Michael/ Lauren civil trial update February 9

[ekat]

@skydy

It’s just such a sad situation. It’s difficult for me to find it entertaining because the Ks are so horrifying and Barisone’s life has been turned upside down. It’s interesting in a legal sense, but not really fun to follow.

Agreed. It’s pretty terrible on many levels.

[ekat]

@Virginia_Horse_Mom

There undoubtedly will be a lot of “I don’t recollect

It’s better than lying, I suppose.

[skydy]

I don’t know about that, since in these people’s case, the phrase is a lie in itself.

[Fiesta01]

@ekat

GAS has his work cut out for him.

I doubt if he fully understands that just yet. But he will…

[Ambitious_Kate]

@ekat

So the jury could find RG made the recordings at LK’s direction Or of his own volition, but it was LK that disclosed and used the recordings.

If they were to decide RG made the recordings, and LK distributed them, she’s on the hook.

So, for all intents and purposes, RG actually IS Lauren with the recordings. She broke the law by directing and using the illegal recordings, so she’s on the hook. MB didn’t so he gets no percent. RG made them for LK, but not being sued. LK directed him to make them and used them, and distributed them. So it doesn’t matter if she says, “Yeah, but he placed them”. She’s on the hook for using them.

[FitzE]

@skydy

It’s just such a sad situation. It’s difficult for me to find it entertaining because the Ks are so horrifying and Barisone’s life has been turned upside down. It’s interesting in a legal sense, but not really fun to follow.

Best summary of the situation so far, in my opinion. Outside scripted entertainment or BSC stuff like Tiger King, I did not know people behaved like this IRL. It is genuinely shocking.

[Knights_Mom]

@FitzE

@skydy

It’s just such a sad situation. It’s difficult for me to find it entertaining because the Ks are so horrifying and Barisone’s life has been turned upside down. It’s interesting in a legal sense, but not really fun to follow.

Best summary of the situation so far, in my opinion. Outside scripted entertainment or BSC stuff like Tiger King, I did not know people behaved like this IRL. It is genuinely shocking.

They do and far more often than is comfortable.

[Ambitious_Kate]

@Virginia_Horse_Mom

Oooh. That’s a good point about Kirby having made transcripts of the illegal recordings AND those same transcripts having been sent in to SafeSport.

Very good point.

But then, LK mails them and what no, to SS, signing her name, etc.

[Ambitious_Kate]

I have a question, if the recordings are illegal, and LK et al are found to have made and distributed illegal recordings (and I guess she did, to KK,vto Nelly the Belly, to others she has talked about on Facebook, to SS, to her father) can that become a criminal charge, or will it stay civil?

[trubandloki]

@ekat

@Virginia_Horse_Mom

There undoubtedly will be a lot of “I don’t recollect

It’s better than lying, I suppose.

But, it is usually them lying when they say it.

[trubandloki]

@Knights_Mom

@FitzE

@skydy

It’s just such a sad situation. It’s difficult for me to find it entertaining because the Ks are so horrifying and Barisone’s life has been turned upside down. It’s interesting in a legal sense, but not really fun to follow.

Best summary of the situation so far, in my opinion. Outside scripted entertainment or BSC stuff like Tiger King, I did not know people behaved like this IRL. It is genuinely shocking.

They do and far more often than is comfortable.

I think these threads have made that clear.

[trubandloki]

@Ambitious_Kate

I have a question, if the recordings are illegal, and LK et al are found to have made and distributed illegal recordings (and I guess she did, to KK,vto Nelly the Belly, to others she has talked about on Facebook, to SS, to her father) can that become a criminal charge, or will it stay civil?

In a jurisdiction who cares about that stuff it certainly can. It appears that in NJ they are not interested in anything negative anyone in the Kanarek family does.

[eggbutt]

@Unfforgettable

And in Wisconsin, Bloody Mary’s are also Sunday brunch.

I’m on my way!

[DownYonder]

@eggbutt

with her illusions of grandeur

I think the proper term is DELUSIONS of grandeur.

[eggbutt]

Perhaps by the time the civil trials roll around they will have gotten better professional stylist help - maybe gain some weight, drop the dramatic makeup, wear clothes that actually fit, hair brushed, oh, and plenty of reading glasses! First impressions with the jury and all that. You never get a second chance for a first impression.

I’m looking forward to watching Pa and Ma testify (if it is televised). It won’t take the defense team long to get the real personalities to appear in them.

[DownYonder]

@RHdobes563

Spot looks like a Parti-Colored Cocker Spaniel to me.

Good point! I will say though that when I was a toddler, we had a Cocker Spaniel. She was my first dog and I loved her immensely. She was pretty and sweet and great with wee kids but…she could not be housebroken. My father always said she was the dumbest dog he had ever owned. We sadly had to rehome her when Dad was transferred to Japan (6 month quarantine).

[DownYonder]

@skydy

the phrase [I don’t recall] is a lie in itself.

Hilary Clinton was a master at using that term whenever faced with a question that she didn’t want to answer. (Or should it be “mistress”? Or are both words too politically incorrect these days?)

[DownYonder]

@skydy

I went to you tube and watched snippets of their testimony, just to remember how LK and RG came off under oath in front of a jury.

I was just wondering how likely it is that Silver has watched that testimony. And is there a chance Stone will watch it? Seems to me it would be a vital part of their “due diligence” as they prep for the upcoming depositions and trial.

[DownYonder]

@eggbutt

@Unfforgettable

I’m on my way!

I will meet you there!

[LilRanger]

@DownYonder

I was just wondering how likely it is that Silver has watched that testimony. And is there a chance Stone will watch it? Seems to me it would be a vital part of their “due diligence” as they prep for the upcoming depositions and trial.

Guessing he will if he hasn’t already. It’s good to have an idea how a deponent will act. And of course, what has been said.