It's an absolute shit show. We're in the middle of the second trial. The first trial ended in a hung jury on 1 of 3 counts. The jury voted on full acquittal on 2 counts, but the judge declared a mistrial before defense could move to have those verdicts entered into the record. Along the way:
* Defense has hypothesized the deceased was attacked by a dog. The dog of the family where the deceased visited was re-homed and the new owners are - POOF! - unavailable.
* The deceased was found outside. The cops never went into the home of the property where the deceased was found even though he had been visiting there hours before.
* The home has since been sold.
* The lead investigator has been dishonorably discharged over his conduct in the investigation.
* Cell phones used by investigators and witnesses were disposed of/lost.
* Apparently all of the state's key witnesses were butt dialing each other in the hours leading up to and following the discovery of the deceased. Lots of calls to each other but apparently nobody talked about anything.
* Evidence was collected in red Solo cups. No, I'm not kidding. Stop looking at me like that.
* The snowy ground was sifted with leaf blowers. Why do you keep looking at me like that?
* Evidence - large fragments of a broken taillight - was not found on the open ground until days later.
* Video recordings from within the garage were image reversed. The state has mysteriously lost the original videos.
* One of state's key witnesses did a Google search for "hos [sic] long to die in cold" hours before she claims she was aware of the deceased being found.
* Objection rulings so favor the state, many law experts howl, calling the judge "Auntie Bev."
It goes on.
Here's an example:
https://youtu.be/v5b_UpNMBIA
