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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So she brought the gun to the room and don’t get it from the safe as in the initial story. [/quote]

In the proffer and in court she said he gave her the gun that morning before she left and she had it in her pocket (I think it was like a zipper hoodie pocket).

She says she never got it from the safe. Brendan says she knew his code from watching him open the door to the house and the code to the gun safe is the same. There may have been an initial statement maybe from Juliana before she flipped that he told her the code in real time that day? Did we just think that? I don’t know, I feel like that was the running assumption before the proffer details.

But Carroll complained in closing they never got fingerprints off the gun safe. Which is interesting, in light of his previous assertions that Juliana read all the discovery and then made up a story that fit all the evidence. Guess she missed that part about the gun safe. [/quote]

This is where the CW could have done more.  I worry she was too confident about her case.  Why not ask JM if she "read all the discovery and saw the evidence" before she flipped.  And/or call the detective who worked with JM.  I really really doubt she had access to any of this.  This is standard protocol and law enforcement 101.

They could anticipated this argument and handled in direct. I know the preference is not to recall a witness after the defense rests, but this was an option too. I would also have considered calling her back to rebut that they had broken up and make the points made here about the daughter calling her mommy, them staying in same hotel room, the fact she didn't leave the house after all this.  I assume VA is like everywhere else and cross of JM on rebuttal would be limited to her rebuttal testimony.

I know someone will say the CW wanted to keep the case simple.  I think she left loose ends. This was not a complicate case and a few more rebuttals would hve been fine.  I still believe he will be convicted but it is still frustrating.[/quote]

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