first, the News-Press had a story about the blessing of dogs at an Episcopal church in Los Olivos...what is this madness?? next, I got up and got going to the Lance DUI hearing/ pre-trial thingamajig in Santa Barbara....I don't really know what this revival has become other than a thingamajig....
then, Genis shows up twenty minutes late...this is the only profession where you can show up late and unprepared and make tons of money...second bummer was Judge Hill says no cameras in the courtroom and now, none in the court house..no pictures can be taken of the folks who are part of the trial...WTF?? basically what he did was issue a gag order on photo journalists..every picture tells a story..and yet he won't issue a gag order on the News-Press or Lance who are free to write whatever they want about the hearings..and this was because an unnamed media outlet complained...this is hypocrisy pure and simple and I'll let the Judge know one way or another..it's outrageous!! I think that even the News-Press is growing weary of the Lance reporting...
but ok no more pictures of important people, here's picture of the court house ceiling..notice the water stains..or are they tear stains from the Saints of Boredom over these long tedious proceedings?? or how about a picture of the court house ashtrays...why would they put these ugly things in such a beautiful building??
so the hearing finally starts and forsensic document examiner Sandra Homewood spent three hours on the stand sparring with Genis...Homewood won the fight and Genis was reduced to bringing up hypotheticals to defend Lance because he ran out of facts, which were mighty scarce to begin with.... the only thing that Genis did was tell us how much Homewood gets for testifying/$200 per hr on the stand..which is irrelevant...
but Genis adding to her bank account by asking stupid questions over and over again and trying to get Sandra to answer as he wanted her to...she was a seasoned veteran who would have none of it as she often corrected Genis and rolled her eyes when he asked a dumb question..one thing that the defense couldn't understand which should be clear to anyone who's operated a copy machine, is that copies don't contain any original ink from a pen!!
we broke for lunch and returned at 2:00PM and the attys took another conference for 45 minutes...they go in one room, come out and go in another room like they're playing hide and seek..meanwhile I'm sitting there falling asleep because they got the air conditioning on....bad air makes me sleepy so they should use fans like in the south...
so finally the defense calls James "Uncle Jim" Blanco to the stand....before Blanco I guess they had his ex-nephew as a witness ...his name was Merydith and did document examinations and Blanco was related by some sister wife thing....
I don't fuckin know and I don't fuckin care.....Genis called him to the stand hoping to get some help, but the kid, Merydith, was of no help and there was no reason to call him...
ok, so Blanco gets on the stand and proceeds to bore the shit outta me to almost a criminal level..he was so caught up in unnecessary details, and measuring pixels, and using infrared when it wasn't needed, that nothing was resolved other than he couldn't say that Kasi Beutel did anything wrong...
and get this, Blanco charges more than Homewood for testimony....$300 per hr and yet he says he's doing the Lance case for free except for a $250 retainer and lodging at the Canary Hotel courtesy of Genis... Blanco so far had turned down about $25000 (!!!!!) worth of fees because he says he does about two freebies per year...and the Lance case just happened to be one of them...
how strange is that, I thought..something is up there...
then after asking the same questions over and over, Horowitz, who's looking more and more like Pee Wee Herman, finally goes to the Blanco ethics issues and Judge Hill stops him...why?? Hill says there's no need to go there like he didn't want to hurt Blanco's feelings...I would think that if you examine the ethics issues and the nutty document examining Blanco did, you'd find he was incompetent...and not credible....
but I suspect the motion by Lance and Genis to dismiss was denied, right Bri??
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So the judge just overlooked the minor point that Blanco had been kicked out of the California forensic society (or whatever the hell its called) for falsifying evidence? Gee, Judge, I'm glad that's not important at all. Witness credibility has no bearing of cases whatsoever, I guess.
Isn't this just the preliminary hearing? What happens if it actually goes to trial? Do Lance and Genis get to choose whether it's a jury or a judge verdict? C'mon, Mick. Someone has to keep us informed on these things.
as Plato once said: inform thyself..besides, I'm too busy checking out the courtroom babes...
Let me help with the last one Mick... (good to finally meet you on Monday)
These are pre-trial motions and yes, Genis and Lance could opt for a court trial instead of a jury trial but I would bet that they would never do that....their best shot is at bamboozling one of the 12 unlucky slobs that has to listen to that windbag for an entire trial. It appears Judge Hill is getting wise to their bullshit and growing weary of listening to it. I heard a rumor that they've set a tentative trial date sometime in January, but the way those last two hearings went, it could be January 2013.
i could, woulda met you a while back. but then you'd know who i am. can't risk that.
Maybe the News-Press could have Lance cover his own trial, and Genis do the color sidebar. Spin Steepleton tries to fake his stuff into reading like a legit news story and it gets boring really fast.
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