Court TV: 5 minutes until the Westerfield verdict is read!

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: Don_Vito

holy crap they've already gotten him tried and the verdict in! wow! thats the fastest moving case i've seen in a while!

It is amazingly quick. I have not read enough about the case to understand why the defense did not delay it further, as would ordinarily be the case.

He was arrested February 22nd, is six months unusual?

Viper GTS

It is somewhat unusual for a case of this magnitude, especially one that implicates complex scientific evidence.

 

[Gaard]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: Don_Vito

holy crap they've already gotten him tried and the verdict in! wow! thats the fastest moving case i've seen in a while!

It is amazingly quick. I have not read enough about the case to understand why the defense did not delay it further, as would ordinarily be the case.

He was arrested February 22nd, is six months unusual?

Viper GTS

Hell, IIRC, the OJ trial lasted itself lasted about 6 months. Everybody and their brother was a witness in that one.

 

[thefacts]

My money's on guilty, finding blood all over is pretty damning evidence.

Viper GTS

There was just one drop on the RV carpet, and one small faint stain on his jacket. None in his house and none in his SUV.

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As Forum Admiin, allisolm noted in the OP, this thread and the crime it discusses are more than 12 years old. The man was convicted. No new evidence has been found and he is still on death row.

What, if anything, is your point?

Harvey
Senior Anandtech Moderator/Administrator.

 

[thefacts]

Kidnapped a 7 year old neighbor out of her house. Raped her in his RV. Killed her and took her body out into the desert and dumped her. :|

She might have been raped, but there was no evidence of it.

 

[thefacts]

Kidnapped a 7 year old neighbor out of her house. Raped her in his RV. Killed her and took her body out into the desert and dumped her. :|

Her body wasn't found in the desert, or anywhere near the desert, in fact it was quite close to her home.

 

[thefacts]

yes, the found her body in the desert, near where Westerfield's RV got stuck the night she disappeared.

Like I said, the body was nowhere near the desert, and therefore nowhere near where he got stuck, nor was it anywhere near the route he said he took - and the evidence indicates that he did take the route he said. He got stuck Saturday night; she disappeared Friday night.

 

[thefacts]

is this the same one where the public defense lawyer refused to defend him?

He went directly to a private lawyer, so I seriously doubt that this story is true.

 

[iGas]

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[thefacts]

It is amazingly quick. I have not read enough about the case to understand why the defense did not delay it further, as would ordinarily be the case.

He said he was innocent, and this was a circumstantial case meaning there was no good evidence of guilt. There was no evidence he was in the girl's house (which is where she disappeared from), no evidence she was in his SUV (which was supposedly used to transport her from his house to his RV), and no evidence he was at the body dump site. Nor was there any evidence of a sexual assault in his house or RV. The small amount of evidence of her in his house can easily be explained by her recent visit (selling cookies), and so can the small amount in his RV (she could have sneaked into it at an earlier time). And there was scientific evidence - the entomology - that he couldn't have dumped the body as he was under police surveillance at the time.

 

[thefacts]

They calculated the chances that the blood found in Westerfield's RV is somebody elses other than the Van Dam girl is 1 in 66 quadrillion.

This is one case where the death penalty is called for if a guilty verdict is reached.

Difference frequencies were given, starting at the much lower figure of 4.9 billion, but the one you're thinking of was actually 660 quadrillion. But the real question is: when was that blood deposited? Evidence such as the failure of the search dogs to detect her scent, indicate that the blood was old.

 

[thefacts]

GUILTY

...of murder.
...of kidnapping.
...of possessing child porn.

Some members of law enforcement declared that it wasn't child porn, and even the prosecutor was uncertain whether the girls were under 18.

 

[BoomerD]

 

[BoomerD]

 

[BoomerD]

 

[Jodell88]

 

[Jimzz]

Like I said, the body was nowhere near the desert, and therefore nowhere near where he got stuck, nor was it anywhere near the route he said he took - and the evidence indicates that he did take the route he said. He got stuck Saturday night; she disappeared Friday night.

Then why did he admit to it and was in the process of pleading to life in prison if he took police to her body? The only reason it fell through was someone found the body first. So he had to go to court and lost.

 

[Linflas]

There was just one drop on the RV carpet, and one small faint stain on his jacket. None in his house and none in his SUV.

Hey David, they give you internet access on death row in San Quentin?

 

[gorcorps]

who is this guy, and why are we seeing a 12 year old thread?

 

[Linflas]

who is this guy, and why are we seeing a 12 year old thread?

Who: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Westerfield

Why: If I had to guess google led whomever is behind the "thefacts" username to register here and resurrect the thread to provide his "facts".