TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 03, 2009
Trial: First Day
Trial: First Day
"Deschutes County Circuit Court, Judge Steven Tiktin presiding. Aside from Prosecutor Jody Vaughan, Detective Chris Wick was in court today sitting beside Jody, helping her to make jury selections.
"The address is 1100 NW Bond, Bend, OR 97701 :)
"Pretty much the day was spent making jury selections. At around 4:00pm, they gave their opening statements. Each of them had approx. 30 minutes. As I think I told you yesterday there was a hearing for Kevin's attorney to get in information about Melissa's previous bad acts. The judge chose to disallow for certain things to get in... one of the things was the fact that Kevin gave Melissa his phone number when he dropped her off at her car. (I'm not really sure why this couldn't be allowed in...) Anyway, it was about the first thing out of Jody's mouth in her opening statement...So then Kevin's attorney in turn brought it up... Why would he give her his number if he had just brutally raped her?!"
"Tomorrow should be much more eventful! I'm sure I'll have more to report."
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I think it's also worth noting that one of the potential jurrors was a Sgt of the Redmond Police department. He clearly had a working relationship with many of the witnesses the prosecution planned to call, as well as a working knowledge of the case. He admitted he would give more weight to what the police said in trial than other witnesses... He also said none of those were reasons why it would be unfair for him to serve on the trial!!! GET A CLUE REDMOND POLICE DEPARTMENT!
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