Re: Status hearings discussion thread / next hearing Feb 28th
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can anyone tell me if there is a list of the witnesses? and where did they mention that Klien and Adams are potential witness ? I did not finish reading the transcipts , so is that info there ?
I haven't seen a list, I guess it's not been made public. But in the transcript of 28th february they say that the prosecution has a list of 108 witnesses, 91 for the prosecution. They are
potential witnesses.
Out of the 91 witnesses, the defense has 40 character witnesses, and about 25 witnesses that are on the prosecution witness list.
They mentioned Adams and Klein on 28th february, saying that they were hostile witnesses (they are prosecution witnesses, not cooperating with the defense, they are , well at least Klein is "fighting the defense").
About Dr White Flanagan said he did not provide a written statement because Dr White had not finished reviewing the evidence (according to Flanagan, they received it late ).
Flanagan vaguely explained Dr Whites theory : "Michael was addicted to propofol or demerol, it had somtehing to do with his inomnia, he was in withdrawal from demerol on 25th, Murray did not cause Michael's death". Flanagan also said that it was White's tentative opinion : White did not have the chance to review properly all the docs at that time.
They also talk a lot about the surveillance cameras : what they have are short clips showing Michael and Murray arriving at the house, the prosecution has nothing else, they said that the LAPD had nothing else. The defense wants the whole night and morning, until the paramedics arrived.
So the judge asked the prosecution to find out where are the rest of the recordings, if they exist.
Then they talked a lot about the photos (Taken at the Carolwood residence, and the autopsy photos). The prosecution has given all the photos they have to the defense, but they are watermarked (they have the defense lawyers' name on them). Flanagan said he wanted the photos in digital format, with no watermark, because his experts could not examin them properly.
There was a problem about which photos they wanted : Chernoff (who wasn't there on the 28th) wrote a letter to the prosecution asking for better quality photos, but he specifically said he did not want pictures of Michael.
Then it was not clear what the defense wanted (only Carolwood ? Autopsy photos where Michael would not be recognisable ? All the photos ? )
The judge ordered that all the non autopsy photos should be given to the defense, with no watermark. About the other photos he wanted to hear from Chernoff , so he ordered Chernoff to be present at the next hearing (march 2nd) so he could understand what the defense wanted. There is a concern that the photos might leak.
Flanagan also insisted on the gastric content, saying it was very important to work on that.
About the probate docs : Flanagan said he would have a financial analyst write a report on these docs, to show why they are important. Ms Brazil gave an example of the docs, it was a statement from Katie Jorrie about someting Katherine did in July 09. (I think it was something about AEG)
I think I read somewhere , but I can't find it anymore, that Walgren mentions "outstanding fingerprints evidence". Has anyone else read that ?
Also, the judge is clearly upset by the defense.
The prosecution did not talk much, it was mostly Flanagan trying to explain why he could not provide his discovery on time.
My feeling so far :
the defense is still going by the drug addict theory (self injection, gastric content, Murray's treatment made more complicated because of demerol) AND someone else (a third person) did it (surveillance footage, probate docs).
It sounds like they don't have a clear theory yet.
