09-19-2011, 06:57 AM
this strategy to attack Dr. Petit is not going to serve their client well. but it's all they have. the outcome of this case is a foregone conclusion whether they like it or not, although Judge Blue will do his utmost to ensure a fair trial. this was the most horrific murder case in Conn. history. i wouldn't want to defend this filth.
sickening:
During Mr. Hayes’s trial, Mr. Donovan, 63, gave a flavor of his tactics, and of just how sordid the coming case may become. He made a widely quoted statement that testimony had created a “mis-impression” that Komisarjevsky had sodomized the 11-year-old, Michaela. Instead, he said his client, now 31, had claimed only to have “ejaculated upon” the girl. BULLSHIT
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ABC
NEW HAVEN — It is set to begin again Monday morning in a claustrophobic courtroom here: photographs of two girls burned to death, witnesses fighting back tears, testimony about the night and day a family endured horror.
Komisarjevsky's three court-appointed attorneys, Walter Bansley III, Jeremiah Donovan and Todd Bussert have adopted a combative, even confrontational style with Dr. Petit and his family.
Jeremiah Donovan has dubbed them the "Petit posse" and tried to get Judge Jon Blue to ban Petit from the courtroom and other family members from wearing memorial pins. Normally, witnessed are not allowed to sit in court for testimony, but because Petit is both a witness and a victim, the judge has allowed him to remain. Blue also ruled that family members could continue wearing their pins.
The attorneys filed a motion to have the jury sequestered during the trial because of all the publicity surrounding the case. That too was denied.
The trio of defense attorneys who have called themselves the "most hated men in America" have also taken Petit to task for his outspoken support of the death penalty. They have accused him of "mounting a public relations campaign" in support of the death penalty.
Donovan took issue with the wording of an "in memoriam" notice written by Petit in which he described his family's killers as "pure evil." In a court motion, the defense attorneys slammed the characterization as inaccurate and inappropriate and instead referred to their client as "a damaged human being" who deserved a chance to respond to the allegations.
Well-known Connecticut trial attorney Norman Pattis said the defense team has little choice but to be aggressive, even against such a sympathetic figure as Petit.
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Jeremiah Donovan, the lead lawyer for Joshua Komisarjevsky, this month outside his office in Old Saybrook, Conn. He has pursued an aggressive defense even before the trial's start, Sept. 19.
sickening:
During Mr. Hayes’s trial, Mr. Donovan, 63, gave a flavor of his tactics, and of just how sordid the coming case may become. He made a widely quoted statement that testimony had created a “mis-impression” that Komisarjevsky had sodomized the 11-year-old, Michaela. Instead, he said his client, now 31, had claimed only to have “ejaculated upon” the girl. BULLSHIT
ABC
NEW HAVEN — It is set to begin again Monday morning in a claustrophobic courtroom here: photographs of two girls burned to death, witnesses fighting back tears, testimony about the night and day a family endured horror.
Komisarjevsky's three court-appointed attorneys, Walter Bansley III, Jeremiah Donovan and Todd Bussert have adopted a combative, even confrontational style with Dr. Petit and his family.
Jeremiah Donovan has dubbed them the "Petit posse" and tried to get Judge Jon Blue to ban Petit from the courtroom and other family members from wearing memorial pins. Normally, witnessed are not allowed to sit in court for testimony, but because Petit is both a witness and a victim, the judge has allowed him to remain. Blue also ruled that family members could continue wearing their pins.
The attorneys filed a motion to have the jury sequestered during the trial because of all the publicity surrounding the case. That too was denied.
The trio of defense attorneys who have called themselves the "most hated men in America" have also taken Petit to task for his outspoken support of the death penalty. They have accused him of "mounting a public relations campaign" in support of the death penalty.
Donovan took issue with the wording of an "in memoriam" notice written by Petit in which he described his family's killers as "pure evil." In a court motion, the defense attorneys slammed the characterization as inaccurate and inappropriate and instead referred to their client as "a damaged human being" who deserved a chance to respond to the allegations.
Well-known Connecticut trial attorney Norman Pattis said the defense team has little choice but to be aggressive, even against such a sympathetic figure as Petit.
Jeremiah Donovan, the lead lawyer for Joshua Komisarjevsky, this month outside his office in Old Saybrook, Conn. He has pursued an aggressive defense even before the trial's start, Sept. 19.