Two vans pulled up to our place at 9:00 am. Four people piled out and started lugging equipment up the…
As the Peel case wandered into defense territory, Phil Weidner scored a hit. And a miss. It was all about…
One of the witnesses who could damage John Peel was Alice Irons, the waitress who served the Coulthurst’s their last…
The defense’s next expert, meanwhile, openly contradicted the prosecution’s arson investigator. Prosecution expert Barker Davie had opined that the Investor…
The defense was not banking its case entirely on witnesses that could contradict prosecution witnesses. There simply weren’t enough witnesses…
John Peel’s defense predictably countered that testimony pointing to a stocky, dark-complexioned Native man raised questions about a core prosecution…
Allegations of witness manipulation aside, there was one witness the State presumably hadn’t manipulated. He was the first witness for…
Phil Weidner was definitive when it came to judging the state of the prosecution’s case at this psychic and procedural…
When the prosecution announced it was resting its case, the spectators let out an audible sigh of relief. That same sigh…
There are truly strange moments during most trials. Sometimes, they end up on the floor, forgotten as the trial plows…