WEEKEND THREAD ALERT!!
Judge Allows Danielle's Dad Back In Court: (Damon was banned for MAD-DOGGING Westerfield!)
Posted on 07/12/2002 7:06:01 AM PDT by MizSterious
Just a case of absolutely incredible coincidental bad luck perhaps?
Don't think jurors will see it that way.
excerpt from article
A"girly girl" born between two brothers, Danielle van Dam was a little princess from the start. She always loved wearing pretty little dresses, dancing and getting her hair styled. She recently dressed as Tinkerbell for a friend's birthday party. "She enjoys being a little girl," said family friend Paula Call. Danielle's friends and her classmates at Creekside Elementary School describe her as a sweet, quiet girl who laughs a lot. "I think about her every day," Sergey Smirnoff, a 6-year-old classmate, said a few days after her disappearance. "Everybody talks about her. We're trying to figure out how she got lost."
I didn't mention this to insinuate that if she didn't call, people would harass her or question her about it, although you are probably right. People would have picked her apart if she called her friends for help instead of police. As soon as RR said "Swing" it was over, done, they can do no right.
On the other hand, had the LE not leaked the information, the chances of her being criticized over that 911 call would be minimal. She would have been just another hysterical parent, living in a very nice neighborhood, whose daughter was kidnapped.
Judge Allows Danielle's Dad Back In Court: (Damon was banned for MAD-DOGGING Westerfield!)
Her testimony didn't make or break this case...she said nothing to sway the jury either way, did she? Sort of reminded me of many Liberals who stepped forward to help Clinton, and ended up broke, in debt with no job, while the Spinmeister ends up filthy rich...What a joke.
I celebrate the fact that the airlines one of my children works for, enforces their Zero tolerance rule. I celebrate and rejoice that you and I can be confident our flight attendents aren't stoned.
There is a Union she belongs too...let her appeal.
Let her appeal and fight the FAA... You think she's special? Who does she think she is? The Queen of Sheeba?
BTW, Hildy...where is all the sympathy for DW's family? His children? The fact he may be falsely accused and his life is ruined? Where is the sympathy for Dw when the Van Dams go outside and harass the potential buyers the Realtors take over to Westerfield's house?
Westerfield should sue the van dams for interferance resulting in a "no sale" of his home. But, I guess the house belongs to Feldman now, so let Brenda and Damon try and fight the law-suit Feldman brings against them...ha! The Van Dams are out of control mad-dogs. They, at the very least, have no class.
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Really? What am I to make of my now eight year old? Or do you want to criticize my parenting as I let her sleep even later than nine if she is so inclined?
On another site, I saw a mention made, about the improbability of having all of the items of evidence against Mr. Westerfield oocur together, if he is indeed innocent. It could be made into a mathematical calculation.
I guess you start with the absense and actual death of Danielle. Next: What is the "probability" the absense would occur within hours of DAW being at Dad's?
Going on, what is the probability that in addition, that this weekend DAW goes on a MH trip? Then the probability he goes alone. Then the probability he doesn't take his toys. Then the probability he goes to the Strand? The the probability he goes ALSO to the desert?
You continue with seemingly independent events, assigning a probability. Finally all of the probabilities are multiplied, to get a "combined probability."
When deliberating, the minds of many of us sort of do this, without all of the math calculations. The result might be what we label "common sense," or label "reason." Still others might call it "logic" (logic being a basis for mathematics, or vice versa).
As a downtime exercize, I highly recommend watching the movie "Twelve Angry Men" made during the 1950s, if memory serves me. The cast is awesome, and it illustrates dramatically how a jury reasons things through.
Perhaps it is overly dramatic, but it is good, nonetheless.
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