01-12-2017, 04:40 PM
On BOR, Len has gone over this in the last two installments.
The first one was with Larry Schnapf, and attorney for our side, and the last one was with Brian Edwards, a former police officer, who turned out to be our best witness.
It was a hung jury, 6-5-1 for conviction. The deliberations were recorded and they were timed out I think at three hours. According to Brian, the tide was turning when time was up and the issue that was turning it was his testimony about it being the wrong rifle.
And I have to say, Brian and Bill Simpich did a neat little job on that issue. In addition to the carbine vs short rifle, the length being wrong, and the lack of any evidence of the rifle being delivered to or picked up by Oswald, they brought in something visually compelling: it was the side mount vs the underneath mount of the sling. In my opinion, there should have been even more time devoted to this key evidentiary point. Its a real good issue for us for the simple reason that its so often overlooked. In fact, if you look back in the literature, none of the early critics bring it up: Epstein, Weisberg, Thompson, Popkin, Lane, Salandria etc. The only one who does is it at all is Meagher, and she only notes it in a footnote. This failure has always puzzled me. Because the evidence is in the volumes themselves.
From my understanding there will be a DVD made of this. So you can watch it yourself.
The first one was with Larry Schnapf, and attorney for our side, and the last one was with Brian Edwards, a former police officer, who turned out to be our best witness.
It was a hung jury, 6-5-1 for conviction. The deliberations were recorded and they were timed out I think at three hours. According to Brian, the tide was turning when time was up and the issue that was turning it was his testimony about it being the wrong rifle.
And I have to say, Brian and Bill Simpich did a neat little job on that issue. In addition to the carbine vs short rifle, the length being wrong, and the lack of any evidence of the rifle being delivered to or picked up by Oswald, they brought in something visually compelling: it was the side mount vs the underneath mount of the sling. In my opinion, there should have been even more time devoted to this key evidentiary point. Its a real good issue for us for the simple reason that its so often overlooked. In fact, if you look back in the literature, none of the early critics bring it up: Epstein, Weisberg, Thompson, Popkin, Lane, Salandria etc. The only one who does is it at all is Meagher, and she only notes it in a footnote. This failure has always puzzled me. Because the evidence is in the volumes themselves.
From my understanding there will be a DVD made of this. So you can watch it yourself.