Rose Speaks.com will be updating this weekend for the BLOG part only. The blog main data base will be rolled back and changed over at about midnight [Sunday December 28], IF the current theme works then all will go smoothly, if not it will be a tad bumpy through part of Monday. Yes we did not finish on Saturday night so it is being done tonight [Sunday] If the blog is down a few hours late at night never fear the full blog is always saved in a roll back database. We will also be adding some new features like a much easier category section, and a translation into several other languages we have been asked to add. We hope we keep improving and you keep stopping by to read.

We thought we might add this bit about cases, old and new ones you have told us you would like Rose Speaks.com to follow. If you want something added to this list, please post it here and let us know.

Casey Anthony – Caylee Anthony – George and Cindy Anthony – Lee Anthony - Anthony case.

The Mike Corona case out of Orange County California, and the interwoven cases that have all come from this case (I.E. Don Haidl and before Corona’s case how it relates to Haidls’ son’s case, And the tail of the two Debbies)

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and his staff and family as they all began to lawyer up.

Dr. Cyril H. Wecht - Because you just can’t make this up, the government needs help in a change of venue to “convict” the doctor on the second go round, cause the people love him.

D. C. Madame, Deborah Palfrey and her Estate.

Henry T. Nicholas III - California Billionaire, just had to allegedly possess and with intent to distribute drugs, with secret rooms beneath his homes. You have to just love California and what they bring to us, last year Anthony Pellicano and this year Henry T. Nicholas III.

The Hogan family’s continued problems and associated lawsuits.

Michelle Braun, Millionaire Madame and her Client list you are not going to believe who all is included and those she intends or might take down with her unlike the D. C. Madame, Deborah Palfrey.

Lori Drew, the ultimate case of cyber bullying and what her conviction is going to do to the rest of the nation in new laws.

A couple of Rock Bands just to spice things up here on Rose Speaks.com with people who know them well and are willing to give us their take on the current woes a couple of these bands find themselves in.

Thanks to Sprocket the ongoing Phil Spector trial in California, take two.

Roland Carnaby Civil Rights case from Houston Texas of an alleged CIA or FBI operative gun down, who died from gun shot wounds causing death due to blood lost, and why no one is standing trial for this death listed as a “homicide”.

Two Yale Law Students who decided to sue anonymous blog posters for defamation and what this also might generate in online defamation and/or law changes.

New Cases that catches the attention of John J. Nazarian P. I. – Security Consultant, whatever catches the fancy of Mr. Nazarian, we hope he will share with Rose Speaks.com.

All things Anna Nicole Smith related as many of those trials come to an end in 2009. Which by the way the New York Judge has granted Howard K. Stern’s legal team’s request for more time to answer Rita Cosby’s Motion for Summary Judgment. The new date due is February 6, 2009, based on that all of the paperwork filed by Elizabeth McNamara on December 15 was wrong and so had to be refiled on December 19, 2008.

If there is a case you would like to see us follow, let us know, and if we can we will. If you would like to follow a case and write articles for the blog, we welcome you, just drop us an email.

There will be a new article up on Casey Anthony today, and debunking of the blond ambitious, Cosby’s book will be up before the stroke of midnight on December 31.

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Prosecution Witnesses:

#28 James Carroll (LA Co. Sheriff’s Department firearms expert; examined murder weapon, as well as three other firearms found, the ammunition, performed firing tests, and examined the thumb latch; testimony complete)

#29 Dr. Louis Pena (LA Co. Deputy Coroner; performed the autopsy on Ms. Clarkson; under 1st cross examination)

Accredited Press inside the courtroom: Aphrodite Jones during the morning session.

Manner of Death
As a strategic move, the prosecution chose not to present evidence on manner of death in their case in chief. Under direct, Truc Do did not ask a single question of Dr. Pena on the manner of Ms. Clarkson’s death or what his final determination was on the autopsy report. …

To read the ongoing coverage of Sprocket on the Phil Spector retrial, take 2 visit Sprocket’s site.

http://sprocket-trials.blogspot.com/2008/12/phil-spector-retrial-day-eighteen-of.html.

©Sprocket
December 13, 2008
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Prosecution Witnesses:

#27 Steve Renteria (LA Co. Sheriff’s Dept. DNA technical leader and expert; examined several items recovered at the scene for DNA; testimony completed)

Accredited Press inside the courtroom: None

It’s all in the DNA
Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence. Do any of you remember that from the first trial? It was a very long and grueling cross examination and redirect and cross and redirect and cross of DNA expert criminalist Steve Renteria today but all in all I think he stood up well under cross. Renteria eloquently said, “Every contact leaves a trace but not all trace [evidence] is detectable.”

The points Weinberg tried to make today in his cross examination were that Spector’s DNA was not found on the murder weapon and all the individuals working on the investigation from the lead detectives to the group of criminalists working on testing the evidence, even the prosecutors involved in the case, directed or specifically chose not to test the weapon for “handler” (aka touch) DNA. The problem with this argument is, it is a known scientific fact that “touch DNA” does not contain a significant amount of DNA compared to the amount contained within blood. To test for touch DNA, Renteria states criminalists specifically look for areas of the evidence that do not have blood on them; the gun had quite a bit of surface area with blood on it. Renteria testified that when there is a large amount of DNA from a blood source [on a piece of evidence] it can easily over power, cover, or drown out any touch DNA that might be there so that it is undetectable. Just because Spector’s DNA is not detected on the weapon does not mean that you can make a conclusion that he did not fire or handle the weapon.

However, in the gallery, that’s not the conclusion Rachelle reached at the end of the morning session. It was right after Weinberg was asking Renteria about the DNA evidence he found on the weapon, “other than that [single] Y type [allele]?” (Weinberg keeps pressing that this Y allele could have come from any male.) Renteria says, “It’s a negative result. I can’t tell you why it [the DNA] wasn’t there.”

To read the ongoing coverage of Sprocket on the Phil Spector retrial, take 2 visit Sprocket’s site.

http://sprocket-trials.blogspot.com/2008/12/phil-spector-retrial-day-seventeen-of.html.

©Sprocket
December 11, 2008
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Tags: Lana Clarkson, Phil Spector, Sprocket, Sprocket covers Phil Spector retrial of "alleged" murder

Picture is by Ted Soqui.

Prosecution Witnesses

#27 Steve Renteria (LA Co. Sheriff’s Dept. DNA technical leader and expert; examined several items recovered at the scene for DNA; under direct examination)

Accredited Press inside the courtroom: Harriet Ryan of the Los Angeles Times for about 1/2 hour; possibly another woman for a short time, unidentified.

The DNA Primer

Court was only a half day session today. A juror had an appointment. We don’t know what kind of appointment, just that one of the jurors needed the afternoon off.

Steve Renteria took the stand this morning. Truc Do presented the witness. Renteria has been with the LA Co. Sheriff’s Dept. for approximately 25 years. He’s the DNA technical leader, the lead DNA administrator and the CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) administration. He’s responsible fore the LA County DNA database. His CV is discussed and that he’s testified over 50 times in Superior Court.

(Most people find the scientific testimony boring but I enjoy it. GSR, DNA, I find it all fascinating. The toxicology evidence yesterday was a bit hard to follow but still interesting in the points each side was trying to make.)

Under direct examination Renteria gives a brief explanation of DNA for the jury. He also details in general terms how DNA is extracted from a cell and the steps taken to obtain a DNA profile and compare it to a reference sample. A reference sample is a known DNA sample obtained from a victim or suspect that is compared to collected evidence. Renteria testifies that a mixed profile can have a major and minor contributor to the sample, or a mixed profile can have an equal distribution of both contributors. Renteria explains that once a sample is compared they attach a “value” to it which helps to describe how rare or common that particular profile may have. (Such as 1 in 14 quadtrillion or some such astronomical number.)

To read the ongoing coverage of Sprocket on the Phil Spector retrial, take 2 visit Sprocket’s site.

http://sprocket-trials.blogspot.com/2008/12/phil-spector-retrial-day-sixteen-of.html.

©Sprocket
December 10, 2008
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Prosecution Witnesses:

#19 Mark Lillienfeld (Detective for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept.; responsible for the investigation at the scene of the shooting; testimony completed)

#20 Jaime Lintemoot (LA County Coroner’s Office, Senior Criminalist; collected evidence from Clarkson’s body at the scene; under cross examination)

Accredited Press in the courtroom: None.

I apologize that there is no detailed entry up for today. I’ve been sewing every since I got home, trying to get two orders ready to go out. I still have about another hour of sewing left to do before I can get some sleep.

Before the afternoon break and outside the presence of the jury Alan Jackson presented arguments that Mr. Weinberg “opened the door” in cross examination of Detective Lillienfeld. This was in regards to questions that were asked about suicide, a study the LA County coroner did on area suicides from 2004-2006, as well as what facts went into Lillienfeld’s conclusion where he determined that the shooting on February 3rd, 2003 was a homicide. AJ argued that this “opened the door” for the prosecution to bring in all of Spector’s prior bad acts that were previously ruled inadmissible (the convictions, other 1101(b) witnesses, etc.) by Fidler.

Fidler was clear in ruling on this argument. He doesn’t believe it’s opened the door. [This evidence is not coming in.] “It’s not going to happen. Not at this point. [We're] not going there.”

Truc Do presented Jaime Lintemoot’s testimony.

Weinberg started off his cross of Lintemoot with the following questions….

To read the ongoing coverage of Sprocket on the Phil Spector retrial, take 2 visit Sprocket’s site.

http://sprocket-trials.blogspot.com/2008/12/phil-spector-retrial-day-thirteen-of.html.

©Sprocket
December 4, 2008
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Picture is by Ted Soqui.

Prosecution witnesses:

#17 James Hammond (Alhambra Police Detective [officer at time of shooting]; first responder to the scene and involved in the “take down” of Spector; testimony completed)

#18 David Riggs (Paramedic/Firefighter for Los Angeles County; responded to the shooting; evaluated Ms. Clarkson and pronounced her deceased; testimony completed)

#19 Mark Lillienfeld (Detective for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept.; responsible for the investigation at the scene of the shooting; currently under direct)

Accredited Press in the courtroom: None.

Another exhausting day for me. On top of that, I left my cell phone in the car when I was dropped off at the train station. It means I don’t have an easy reference to what time it is in the courtroom. I have to turn around and look at the clock high on the wall behind me. And, I have to use a pay phone to call Mr. Sprocket when it’s time to pick me up.

9:35 am: Rod Lindblom is here to sit with Mrs. Clarkson. I am the only other regular person in the courtroom besides Rachelle, the bodyguard and the sheriffs’. Before court, one of the defense assistants, a youngish looking bespeckled man who has worked with the defense exhibits when Jennifer Barringer is absent, approaches me in the hallway and thanks me for my trial coverage. I don’t quite know what to make of it, but it was nice of him to say that and I thanked him back.

Jennifer is back and she introduces herself to two gentlemen in suits in the back row. I believe these are our next witnesses that will take the stand. Spector is wearing a black suit, black shirt, white tie and white kerchief. Rachelle was wearing a dark pantsuit. Her hair is up on her head in a butterfly clip. I’ve received an email from someone who’s said they’ve seen a shocking photo on Rachelle’s private MySpace page. I’ve not seen the photo and do not know if it is authentic. However, a detailed description and the caption with it has been passed on. Supposedly, TMZ has obtained a copy of the photo. If I obtain a copy of it and I can verify it’s authenticity, I’ll post it.

To read the ongoing coverage of Sprocket on the Phil Spector retrial, take 2 visit Sprocket’s site.

http://sprocket-trials.blogspot.com/2008/12/phil-spector-retrial-day-twelve-of.html.

©Sprocket
December 3, 2008
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Prosecution Witnesses:

#15 Adriano De Souza (alternate driver; testimony completed)
#16 Officer Brandon Cardella (Alhambra Police Dept. first responder to the scene and involved in the “take down” of Spector; testimony completed)

Accredited Press in the courtroom:
Harriet Ryan of the Los Angeles Times (short period in the afternoon session)

…When I finally get inside the courtroom, Spector and his team are already there along with Rachelle and De Souza is back on the witness stand. He’s wearing a black, short sleeve sweater vest, a white shirt and a dark colored tie.

First off, a whole half our of court was wasted this morning outside the presence of the jury. Weinberg was objecting to Fidler about several rulings he made during his cross examination of De Souza on November 2oth.

The first thing Weinberg complained about was the transcription error with one of the audio tapes the prosecution played and the fact that the prosecution made a correction and the defense didn’t get the corrected copy FIRST, before it was given to the jury. And, a juror spoke to the court verbally and the attorneys were not notified about it. Fidler explains exactly what happened to Weinberg. That Fidler did not speak to the juror; the juror told Wendy during lunch break. Weinberg then wants the Judge to direct the jurors to make all their further communications with the court “in writing” so that there is a record. It’s a minor thing; it wasn’t like a discovery violation or anything and I think that’s resolved.

The second issue has to do with how Weinberg was shut down in many of his questions to De Souza. He says there were “Several rulings where the jury is forced to accept the prosecution’s version of events.” This is all about when Weinberg was questioning De Souza about the 911 call and the “I think he, he killed someone,” as well as the “I don’t know. It’s my English” statements De Souza made during the police interview.

…10:45 am: The morning break is called. A few observations here. Mrs. Clarkson is by herself in the front row. There’s no one else here supporting here. I don’t ask her, but I’m guessing that no one could come. This is the first time I’ve even seen her on that front row bench by herself. It makes me sad.

To read the ongoing coverage of Sprocket on the Phil Spector retrial, take 2 visit Sprocket’s site.

http://sprocket-trials.blogspot.com/2008/12/phil-spector-retrial-day-eleven-of.html.

©Sprocket
December 2, 2008
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