06-08-2013, 11:03 AM
The judge on Friday denied a routine defense motion for acquittal, leaving the verdict in the hands of the jury. Closing arguments are expected Monday afternoon.
Really hope the jury reaches a guilty verdict quickly on this one. This guy is so full of shit, imo.
Seacat's final day of testimony:
With his two young sons safely outside their burning home, a former Kansas lawman raced back inside the smoke-filled structure barefoot to try to pull out the body of his wife before he was driven out by smoke so thick he couldn’t see or breathe, he told jurors Friday. {HOTD: But, he had no blood on his clothes and only a minor burn on his foot. Not likely, imo}.
The defense contends Vashti Seacat set the fire before killing herself.
One point of dispute is whether a suicide note was written by a depressed wife and mother or forged by someone else. The prosecution contends that traces of gasoline were found on the pants Brett Seacat wore that day, but the defense raised questions about how that evidence was handled.
During his second day of testimony, Brett Seacat, a former police instructor at the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center and before that a Sedgwick County sheriff’s deputy, recounted an argument that he and his wife had the night she died.
The couple had been receiving marriage counseling, and Seacat said he was upset when he learned that night that she meant to go through with a contested divorce she had filed for 16 days earlier.
He testified that he threatened to tell his wife’s employer about extramarital affairs she had with two managers, in order to try to get her fired. He said he also threatened to publish private photos of her. He admitted he also told her he would take their children and she would never see them again. {HOTD: He'd threatened her with those things in the past and she'd told others. Lots of threats.}
“On several occasions, I stopped her from doing something I don’t think I am allowed to talk about,” Seacat testified. {HOTD: But, nobody ever knew about this and he never told their counselor? }
The comment, an apparent reference to previous suicide attempts, prompted prosecutors to object. The judge ordered jurors to ignore the statement.
Jurors intently listened while Seacat recounted how he had slept on the couch that night, until his wife woke him up at 3:51 a.m. with a call from their upstairs bedroom to his cellphone.
“She said, ‘You need to come get the boys or they are going to get hurt,’” he testified.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/06/07/427...orylinkcpy
Really hope the jury reaches a guilty verdict quickly on this one. This guy is so full of shit, imo.
Seacat's final day of testimony:
With his two young sons safely outside their burning home, a former Kansas lawman raced back inside the smoke-filled structure barefoot to try to pull out the body of his wife before he was driven out by smoke so thick he couldn’t see or breathe, he told jurors Friday. {HOTD: But, he had no blood on his clothes and only a minor burn on his foot. Not likely, imo}.
The defense contends Vashti Seacat set the fire before killing herself.
One point of dispute is whether a suicide note was written by a depressed wife and mother or forged by someone else. The prosecution contends that traces of gasoline were found on the pants Brett Seacat wore that day, but the defense raised questions about how that evidence was handled.
During his second day of testimony, Brett Seacat, a former police instructor at the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center and before that a Sedgwick County sheriff’s deputy, recounted an argument that he and his wife had the night she died.
The couple had been receiving marriage counseling, and Seacat said he was upset when he learned that night that she meant to go through with a contested divorce she had filed for 16 days earlier.
He testified that he threatened to tell his wife’s employer about extramarital affairs she had with two managers, in order to try to get her fired. He said he also threatened to publish private photos of her. He admitted he also told her he would take their children and she would never see them again. {HOTD: He'd threatened her with those things in the past and she'd told others. Lots of threats.}
“On several occasions, I stopped her from doing something I don’t think I am allowed to talk about,” Seacat testified. {HOTD: But, nobody ever knew about this and he never told their counselor? }
The comment, an apparent reference to previous suicide attempts, prompted prosecutors to object. The judge ordered jurors to ignore the statement.
Jurors intently listened while Seacat recounted how he had slept on the couch that night, until his wife woke him up at 3:51 a.m. with a call from their upstairs bedroom to his cellphone.
“She said, ‘You need to come get the boys or they are going to get hurt,’” he testified.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/06/07/427...orylinkcpy