tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post117011581509851124..comments2023-11-03T06:35:48.003-05:00Comments on Shark and Shepherd: What happened in the Avery case?Rick Esenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07280070509167910367noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-1170136074066220572007-01-29T23:47:00.000-06:002007-01-29T23:47:00.000-06:00It's not usually a good sign for the prosecution w...It's not usually a good sign for the prosecution when the trial court denies a motion to introduce other acts evidence, as happened here in (I think I have this right) September. It's a sign of overreaching, or its a sign of poor legal briefing, or its a sign that the court is going to avoid this particular appellate issue, or some combination of all those and of course many other possible problems, but this just seems to be a prosecutor who is out of his league with Strang and Buting. I am curious as to how this special prosecutor (why didn't they bring in someone from the Milwaukee County DA's Homicide unit...OK they have too much to do already) missed a deadline? Did Kratz fail to apply for an extension of the scheduling order? In any event, I wonder if there was any discussion of how failing to name Dassey in a timely manner prejudiced Avery, which is always how courts analyze motions concerning a party's tardy naming of witnesses. And there is nothing to prevent Kratz from using Dassey as a rebuttal witness! We will soon see.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-1170129629238472532007-01-29T22:00:00.000-06:002007-01-29T22:00:00.000-06:00Thanks.You were the first attorney/blogger I could...Thanks.<BR/><BR/>You were the first attorney/blogger I could think of that might shed a legal light on what happened today.<BR/><BR/>I hope they can still get a conviction. But I have this sinking feeling they made a mess of the case and all it takes is one guy to believe the "he wuzz framed" defense that is coming to get a hung jury.The Badgerland Conservativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04665954445867215793noreply@blogger.com