I’m doing so now because the trial is paused for a couple of days.
For a brief recap of where we ended last week,click here.
Second, for the absolute clownshow it turned out to be.
To keep and open mind.
Witnesses testifying to things they never mentioned before (Karen Read shouting “I hit him!")
to the State Police investigation, the state Grand Jury or the federal Grand Jury.
Long time friends claiming they barely know each other.
Claims that are refuted by cell phone and health data.
A married couple claiming they were making sexy time at 2:30 in the morning.
It’s a constant struggle to keep that in mind.
First, because the prosecution’s case seems so weak and convoluted.
But mostly because, with very few exceptions, the witnesses have simply not been credible.
That evidence was presented by the Mass.
State Police’s accident reconstruction expert.
(Not to be confused with the three previous LEOs with shaven heads.)
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Now, by way of background, Trooper Paul’scurriculum vitaedid come up.
But I too have a couple of Associates degrees.
One from the prestigious Massassoit Community College in Brockton, where I graduated without honors.
So I won’t disparage any professional’s educational background.
In the pretrial process, it was largely reported he was found 10-12 feet from the street.
(Reminder: Don’t believe anything you read on X.)
And his phone was found neatly under his body.
But despite his background in kinematics, Trooper Paul was at a loss to explain the physics involved.
At least not in layman’s terms for us less educated masses.
Or, he simply can’t say for sure.
Because, he reminded everyone, he wasn’t there:
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They didn’t wait 2 1/2 years and say, “What do you want from me?
I wasn’t in Dallas.
It’s not like JFK got shot in the motel room where I was boning my mistress.”
And it’s possible the accident reconstructionist was told there would be no math on this test.
Now you might assume he was told this by Proctor.
Or by investigator Brian Tully.
Or by anyone else involved.
He was able to catch himself before he named any names.
Instead, he heard this information at the crime scene from …the crime scene.
I am not making this up.
Even when they do the movie trope, “Zoom in.
Where he was a member of the police force that is at the center of a national corruption scandal.
Involving what exactly?Computer data.
The Commonwealth crossed an ocean so you can find an “expert.”
And he comes from a police department more suspect than Canton’s or the Mass.
I’d say again that I can’t make this up.
But you’ve figured out by now no fiction could be as strange as this reality.
And applies to the whole proceeding through the first 7 1/2 weeks:
Talk to you again on Friday.
It should be bonkers.
