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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Prosecution said they have 2 witnesses left. Who do you think it could be ? 
Could the former au pair be one of them?[/quote]

They said one would take more than an hour and one would take 15 minutes. We still haven’t heard from whoever performed the autopsies right? It seems like we have to hear from them, even though the obvious COD is the stabbing and shooting. Maybe I somehow missed that but I don’t think so. I assumed we would also hear from another detective who does like forensic reconstruction work who would testify more with diagrams about angles and whatever. Some of the testimony on Thursday like the firearms expert got into that a little, she said the evidence showed Joe was shot from more than 12 inches away or something. But not like diagrams and such.

I was surprised it was only 2 more witnesses. That makes me think the commonwealth has something they feel is “key” and don’t want to fatigue jurors with too much more info. Which Juliana’s testimony is obviously compelling but they said there would be key forensics that supported it. I believe that but I feel like we haven’t quite gotten there.

They drew attention to the blood splatter pattern on Brendan’s pants a couple times and made sure to establish it was blood and it was Christine’s. This is just my own interpretation but I would assume they must have someone coming who will show that would have happened from stabbing someone, not from just rendering aid to a stabbed person (one of the FCPD guys made sure to point out “this area looked different from the other areas where blood came into contact with the pants and needed further investigation”).

They also kinda pointed out it was weird Juliana had blood on her socks, and I agree it is but I’m not sure it really ended up mattering for anything since she confessed to her part. She probably took her shoes off at some point and then put them back on? Odd, but doesn’t really answer any pressing questions.

The backpack I’m not sure, it could be relevant or not, I assume that it could help establish where Joe was shot and that he could have been moved, however, I assume that Brendan’s defense could just say yeah, he moved him to render aid to Christine. They need to go beyond that and show that and show that Brendan stabbed Christine and then staged the scene, and I’m not sure the backpack will be pivotal or not.

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Juliana testified that the blood on her socks was because she took her shoes off when she went to open the safe. (To stage that she didn't already have the gun). Sounds like she was panicking and stepped into the blood with her shoes, and didn't want to track bloody footprints into the bathroom.[/quote]

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