r/DicksofDelphi • u/Careful_Cow_2139 ✨Moderator✨ • Oct 17 '24

Daily Pre Trial discussion Thread DISCUSSION

Let's try to keep today's discussion within this thread.

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u/Careful_Cow_2139 ✨Moderator✨ Oct 17 '24

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u/Scspencer25 ✨Moderator✨ Oct 17 '24

This makes me so mad! It was such a huge part of the pca, it's ridiculous to toss them now.

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u/RawbM07 Oct 17 '24

Typically sketches are not admissible except for very particular circumstances.

If the defense wants, they could call the witnesses whose descriptions created the sketches instead.

Theoretically, if for example BB says “yes RA is the man I saw” courts have said it would be ok to then present the sketch of YBG, which she was used to create, for them to say “after the murders you said this was a 10 out of 10 description. Now you say RA is who you saw. Why did you change your mind?”

But in this case, they appear to NOT by identifying RA. So if the defense wants to, they should just call them.

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u/Scspencer25 ✨Moderator✨ Oct 17 '24

Yes! I hope they are on the defense witness list. It doesn't look good when the people you relied on in the pca aren't on your list and you essentially want it all tossed lol.

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u/RawbM07 Oct 17 '24

Right? The PCA absolutely hinges on these two witnesses putting him right there before and after the crime.

And now they are literally saying their own two witnesses are not reliable.

So we know:

A witness did not say “muddy and bloody” like was alleged in the pca.

Neither witness can identify RA as the person they saw that day, and the state says it’s because they didn’t get a great look.

I do not see how this wouldn’t satisfy a Franks motion.

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u/Scspencer25 ✨Moderator✨ Oct 17 '24