Blame Zeppi
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Background Noise: Only The Good
Random Thought: Three Days More...
Mood: Good thing I stock cheese for their whine
CHICAGO,IL: AP Defense counsel continued it's presentation on this third day in the trial of Cook County vs. Barbara Peters. Flynn led off this mornings arguements by recounting for us the day of March 13, a Monday. The jury was presented with a large exhibit--the remains of what was once the defendant's three-panel photo screen. Today it sat on the exhibition table as nothing more than splinters of wood and pieces of plexi-glass. In recordings taken from Ms. Peters' cell-phone, the jurors listened to Ms. Hurst blame the littlest of the two cats, Zeppelin. In overlapping voices from the deceased, we hear Ms. Marmol state vehemently that she was asleep and heard nothing, and Ms. Hurst explain that she heard a crash, but didn't get up to investigate. When Ms. Marmol attempted to enter the defendant's balcony (which she does so as to be able to use the door wall as a mirror, apparantly unhappy with the mirrors in the apartment) she saw the mess. It was at this time that both victims announce that it must have been the kitten. A charge Ms. Peters refutes in testitmony from today [excerpt from testimony]:
"...Zeppi has a 'guilty' face, and if he would have knocked something over he would have been looking guilty. But he wasn't. Plus, why would the cats knock over something that they've been walking around for the entire time I've had them? Just because there was the convienence of blaming my guests? I think it's the other way around..."
Ms. Peters' testimony was also taken in the afternoon session where Flynn and Harrison examined the evening of the 15th, when the three went to Finn McCools to partake of $1 drafts and appetizer specials. The defendent elaborated on waiting for 40 minutes for Ms. Hurst and Ms. Marmol to arrive, despite calling them 20 minutes before she left work to meet them and they were at home. She also explains how around 8pm, when they had finished eating and had some cocktails and she was ready to head home, a strange man from the next table butted into their conversation and rudely interrupted what had been a pretty nice conversation. Despite his obvious drunken state and his tendancy to lie (like telling them he was a surgeon and then knowing nothing about medicine), when Ms. Peters got the check and they began to divy up the bill, the guy "my name is John but I go by Jack" suggested that they get another round and go elsewhere. Ms. Peters attempted to play the martyr and say they all had to go home since he had already commented on the fact that she had stopped drinking, but she had apparently read the signals from her friends wrong. They didn't seem the least bit annoyed with the creep, but instead stated that they could "just ditch Barb--we have a key" and proceeded to do just that. Ms. Peters stated that at that point she went home and enjoyed her evening alone and that her guest came home around 1:30. Her last moving statements of the day were this [excerpt from testimony]:
"...Silly me, I thought that they had come to Chicago to see me, their friend that they ahdn't seen in 6 months. I assumed that they would actually want to hang out with me and not some nut-job they met at the bar--something they could do in New York. I guess I should have learned my lesson when they wanted to spend time with everyone else they knew from New York who was here over the weekend and not just me. But I was hoping that I was wrong. I guess I wasn't..."
Tomorrow's testimony is scheduled to include more from the defendant and also from Julie, an eye-witness on the night of March 14.
Random Thought: Three Days More...
Mood: Good thing I stock cheese for their whine
CHICAGO,IL: AP Defense counsel continued it's presentation on this third day in the trial of Cook County vs. Barbara Peters. Flynn led off this mornings arguements by recounting for us the day of March 13, a Monday. The jury was presented with a large exhibit--the remains of what was once the defendant's three-panel photo screen. Today it sat on the exhibition table as nothing more than splinters of wood and pieces of plexi-glass. In recordings taken from Ms. Peters' cell-phone, the jurors listened to Ms. Hurst blame the littlest of the two cats, Zeppelin. In overlapping voices from the deceased, we hear Ms. Marmol state vehemently that she was asleep and heard nothing, and Ms. Hurst explain that she heard a crash, but didn't get up to investigate. When Ms. Marmol attempted to enter the defendant's balcony (which she does so as to be able to use the door wall as a mirror, apparantly unhappy with the mirrors in the apartment) she saw the mess. It was at this time that both victims announce that it must have been the kitten. A charge Ms. Peters refutes in testitmony from today [excerpt from testimony]:
"...Zeppi has a 'guilty' face, and if he would have knocked something over he would have been looking guilty. But he wasn't. Plus, why would the cats knock over something that they've been walking around for the entire time I've had them? Just because there was the convienence of blaming my guests? I think it's the other way around..."
Ms. Peters' testimony was also taken in the afternoon session where Flynn and Harrison examined the evening of the 15th, when the three went to Finn McCools to partake of $1 drafts and appetizer specials. The defendent elaborated on waiting for 40 minutes for Ms. Hurst and Ms. Marmol to arrive, despite calling them 20 minutes before she left work to meet them and they were at home. She also explains how around 8pm, when they had finished eating and had some cocktails and she was ready to head home, a strange man from the next table butted into their conversation and rudely interrupted what had been a pretty nice conversation. Despite his obvious drunken state and his tendancy to lie (like telling them he was a surgeon and then knowing nothing about medicine), when Ms. Peters got the check and they began to divy up the bill, the guy "my name is John but I go by Jack" suggested that they get another round and go elsewhere. Ms. Peters attempted to play the martyr and say they all had to go home since he had already commented on the fact that she had stopped drinking, but she had apparently read the signals from her friends wrong. They didn't seem the least bit annoyed with the creep, but instead stated that they could "just ditch Barb--we have a key" and proceeded to do just that. Ms. Peters stated that at that point she went home and enjoyed her evening alone and that her guest came home around 1:30. Her last moving statements of the day were this [excerpt from testimony]:
"...Silly me, I thought that they had come to Chicago to see me, their friend that they ahdn't seen in 6 months. I assumed that they would actually want to hang out with me and not some nut-job they met at the bar--something they could do in New York. I guess I should have learned my lesson when they wanted to spend time with everyone else they knew from New York who was here over the weekend and not just me. But I was hoping that I was wrong. I guess I wasn't..."
Tomorrow's testimony is scheduled to include more from the defendant and also from Julie, an eye-witness on the night of March 14.
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