Forensic litany: Lots of exhibits, less DNA evidence

I'm glad he's being methodical. Dave Chapman isn't presenting this case so that it makes good television, he's sealing the deal on Huguely's fate. Maybe he'll get murder 1 and maybe he won't, but the felony murder seems like a slam dunk.

His performance should be judged based on the length of Huguely's sentence and nothing else.

I think the deliberateness of the prosecution is to show a fair, no stone left unturned, THOROUGH investigation and to gain the trust of the jurors. Hopefully they just see the defense as a pair of overpaid whiners.

I think now that the prosecution has played into the defense's hands with the issue of George's size. All they have to say now is that he fell on her and Yeardley's head hit the floor, or the desk. That much weight coming down on her...accidently, of course.

And what was the blood of hers on the back of his shorts? Did I misunderstand one of the afternoon tweets? Sounds like Mr. Chapman may be playing a game of Twister tomorrow.

Hopefully tomorrow will reveal something big...damn, or else I barely see manslaughter.

Oh, and George won't testify. (see Lloyd Snook's blog for a full analysis) The defense got all they needed from him on that tape playback. Admitting to some things, showing he cared for Yeardley and he cried...both on tape and in person, to show he was sorry. I'm sure the jury ate that up. Ugh.

@Restore the Republic - the defense would like the jury to believe he was a "Lennie", however, he was accepted by UVA he had to have more mental capacity than a "Lennie".

@meanwhile... & Shay - Agreed, and I didn't think of that take of it all. They do not want the defense to question the methods or integrity of the collection of the evidence, even if it doesn't indicate anything at all.

Just imagine once the defense has their say we will all be picking that apart. I still caution everyone, be very careful about your fall to a carpeted floor, you could meet your demise.

@ All of you.

Stop with the Steinbeck analogies! Like Cville said, a lacrosse stick doesn't get you into a school like UVA. My question is why do they have some dude from Snooky's Pawn Shop on the stand right now?

@Cville

I was just going to point out that difference to Santana. Thank you. Also, I forgot about the grand larceny charges...

@Cville

Any idea what the displayed text messages said?

@Santana

Thank you for the phrenology lesson. Yeardley's head was fully developed and her body had more mass than an infants. Your comparison is null and void.

@JC - the text messages were only shown to the Jury. I believe after all is said and done, the public will be given the information on those and the letter and any other information not given out.

I think our Commonwealth's attorney is actually being very smart about this - if this is key evidence - you don't want it out to muddy the news media and a juror may be more likely to see a headline or news feed.

Im surprised there hasn't been any discussion about the large (5x2) spot of blood found in love's underwear. Doesn't this indicate trauma- like rape? Is there another reason there would be blood in that region? Is that what the prosecution is attempting to insinuate! But doesn't have enough evidence to prove?

@Txalli
Or that she was menstruating or spotting.

Ok, I now can see how they are going to nail Huguely based on the recent testimony from his roommates.

@Sade, the difference with the Anthony case is that there was not a "cause" of death truly determined, the evidence they had was gathered inappropriately and tainted, some of it later discredited. Also they came upon the fact that the defense threw her father and mother under the bus as being involved.

No one has said that anyone other that GH5 was in that room until her roommate showed. Then again, they will start their show very soon, with as much as they have pulled out of thin air? I'm bracing myself.

@ Santana

"Luckily, the parents were there to take her to the doctor."

Luckily? It doesn't sound like much of a luckily if "the child is about 10 now, in a wheelchair, can not speak, walk and has the mental capacity of a two or three year old."

Txalli, it sounds (from the tweets) like one or two (maybe more) have testified that GH5 lied about going to Love's apartment. He said he was somewhere else. Coupled with stealing and discarding her laptop, it points to consciousness of guilt.

Unfortunately, we don't know what was in the text messages that were presented to the jury but not to the courtroom spectators. If those text messages incriminate GH5, the recipients have to take the stand and confirm that they received them. I only know this from a case, in Virginia, were I was on the witness list (but never had to testify) to confirm that I had printed out some FB pages. The lawyer couldn't present them unless I was there to say, yes, I went on FB and printed out the pages.

@Txalli, when GH5 returned, two were there and asked where he had been, he said downstairs in another appartment with one witness who was sober and writing a paper and the other apparently wasn't there but at his own place blocks away. Lied to the first two witnesses about where he was. He was also apparently acting strange and when asked what was wrong 3 times by the same, he never answered or never gave a satisfactory answer. The second witness who was at his place blocks away came over and saw GH5 while GH5 decided to use the bathroom with an open door. GH5 then went to his room and shut the door.

Meanwhile he had texted/called the other girls that night prior to going over to YL's. He was obviously a very busy boy.

I think all the witnesses sum up what he was doing when the witnesses were around and also tie up the timeline or time period he was at YL's. He only had perhaps a 30 minute window from the time he left his own place to YLs place, to walk over there break down the door, beat the heck out of her, grab the laptop, throw it in the trash as he came back. His 8-10 minutes account give or take a bit for being at her place.

The text messages/calls also show what he was doing at that time too.

Appears from all the tweets from it all today, most of the witnesses didn't think highly of him before and think even less of him now.

cin17 -- That isn't accurate about the recipients of the texts as it doesn't matter if anyone got them, just that he sent them. They could get them in through his cell provider or by stipulation.

Skipd

Good questions, how come they haven't been addressed I wonder?

@Skip, recall college or being that age .14 was feeling good. ;) Seriously if I were to have a couple of drinks now I would feel it. Then, I probably was above a .14 and it barely affected me. But that level was far below a level that would affect her and her meds.