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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If she did something, the commonwealth has no idea what and has failed to give the jury a theory not directly contradicted by the evidence. [b]The body didn’t sustain injuries consistent with a vehicle strike[/b], yet their entire case is based on the allegation that she hit him with her car. I’ll be floored if the jury returns a guilty verdict given the posture of the case.[/quote]

that's enough for me.

not guilty.

who the heck knows what happened, but the prosecution surely doesn't.[/quote]

Does anyone know if there were given any instructions on what is permissible as an inference? For instance if it is undisputed (I know you can poke holes in expert testimony, just assume for the purposes of this question it's true) that Karen backed her car up around the same time that John's phone stopped working, even if there is no actual evidence of collision, can the jury infer that a collision occurred?

I would throw out the taillight stuff as corroborating evidence in support of the inference, because of the photo and video evidence presented, plus Dever's bizarre testimony. I think you'll probably have a couple jurors who would refuse to accept that as evidence.

That may leave jurors looking at the evidence and possibly not even disagreeing about it (Karen backed up; John's phone stopped), with some of them inferring a collision (assuming that's permissible) but others not (similarly assuming such inference is not mandatory).[/quote]

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