GUILTY!!
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Theowl | Wednesday, August 21, 2002 - 11:18 am     Westerfield was found GUILTY on all counts in the murder of Danielle VanDamm!! HOOO HOOOO!!!! |
Wargod | Wednesday, August 21, 2002 - 11:22 am     Great! Thanks, Owl. I haven't turned on my tv today, and have been listening to a cd so hadnt heard this yet. This was what? day 10 of deliberations for the jury? |
Twiggyish | Wednesday, August 21, 2002 - 11:48 am     YEAH!! There is justice! |
Maesin | Wednesday, August 21, 2002 - 12:06 pm     August 28th is when we will know his punishment. That's the part I am waiting for. |
Reader234 | Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 12:20 pm     Last night on Connie Chungs CNN show she had 2 guests, 1 from court TV, and they were discussing the possibility of an appeal. The defense is using everything they can to make an appeal. The judge on the case is extremely upset with the media talk show people (in particular a talk show host) the court tv rep was saying that they dont have grounds for an appeal, and it was too bad the judge was taking out his anger on the court tv system. Between channel flipping I was also watching Phil Donahue on msnbc, so I may have meshed the 2 topics together. I seem to recall Phil's show discussing the possibility of the death penalty, and that radio guy claiming to have "broke that part of the story" (not sure what "that" was, but evidently the radio guy knows the judge was NOT happy, and as such any media person who interviews a jury BEFORE the next phase will be jailed for contempt charges.) There is a risk that a jury member will talk to the media as they are not sequestured (like for the OJ trial!) and could potentially be swayed by any media talk. There is high demand to get a juror on a talk show, knowing that it will be highly watched = ratings! |
Maris | Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 12:49 pm     The judge in this case was absolutely right regarding the radio talk show host. Even Rikki Kleman of CTV agreed with him. What happened is that the judge had a closed door session with the attorneys and someone leaked it to the radio talk show host who gave out all the details of the closed door meeting. The judge banned that talk show from having any representation in the courrt but not any others. Now, regarding the appeal it will come down to the issues of the defense attorney opening the door to allow all the pornographic pics into evidence. They will say that this harmed the defendent irreparably. That will be the grounds for appeal. |
Tisha90029 | Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 10:24 pm     I may be the only person who doesn't live in San Diego who thinks Westerfield is not guilty...and I really believe that the jury sequestration issue will be a problem on appeal. Westerfield's lawyer asked innumerable times for sequestration and never got it....and all of this while the Alex Avila case was going on, while the kidnapping/rape of those teenagers in Lancaster happened, and while John and Ken from KFI--more stimulating talk radio--were insulting the jurors outside the court by using broccoli as a prop to demonstrate precisely how stupid the jurors were not to reach a verdict within 5 hours. Of course, the good thing about the trial is that I am now a bug expert. Too many days of court TV and forensics for me this summer. sheesh. |
Whit4you | Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 01:26 pm     Well Tish I think I'm the only person in the US who thinks Nichols is not guilty (OKC) so I know how ya feel. Haven't watched enough on this case to form an opinion either way but hopefully if he was convicted he is guilty.
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Secretsmile | Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 08:13 am     Westerfield was just sentenced to death. Now the $$$ we as tax payers have to shell out just increased to unbelievable amounts. |
Cjr | Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 10:24 am     Well, I already pay high taxes in CA and never noticed a difference when my sister-in-law's murderer was sentenced to death. They didn't go up or down based on that. |
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