Ezra McCandless Trial: Mark Pieper- Detective Sergeant

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[loveandabcs]

First time I heard the defense attorney do something unethical: tried to impeach another witness by using the detective, giving him incomplete information. (You would have had to watch the driver's testimony. I've watched everything, in order.) The driver knows his pickup truck and testified to its height correctly and honestly. The ability of the driver to see who was driving Ezra's car from his 1991 pickup truck must be very important to the defense's argument.

[mambutuomalley]

Absolutely love this detective. Didn't have any of their shit and stuck with his truth.

[ritayammouni]

This defence attorney is REALLY smart, he could have been a detective, ME, forensic analyst, DNA expert, etc, because he thinks he knows much more than any of them. He is so condescending 😡

[Moochie]

I've only recently come across the original trial footage and from what I've seen thus far the male attorney seemed to elicit at times barely stifled laughter among those assembled or, more often, obvious boredom in witnesses due to his sometimes opaque line of questioning. For this writer, his use of "agreed? to end many sentences really rankled after a while. It was difficult to know whether he was asking a question of a witness or submitting an answer for a witness, often smiling (inappropriately, in my opinion) while he did so. I thought he was a bit of a drongo, to be honest.

[Fyestyfem-drqh]

These defense attorneys are a joke. I realize that they are trying to defend the indefensible, but some of their asides and comments make it seem they are attacking witnesses personally. They both seem to have some fragile egos that they are constantly trying to prop up with sly digs and insults. Do they not understand that this behavior will influence the jury, consciously or unconsciously, and manifest in bias towards their client? Not that she's likeable either. They're like 3 rotten peas in a pod.

[iviebelle]

everyone is very concerned about why the cops didn’t walk further to see if Alex was alive but if you look at the crime scene photos and the amount of blood that was everywhere they knew Ezra had superficial cuts so all of that blood came from Alex

they also realized immediately it was clearly a crime scene and knew that (unfortunately) they had to keep the integrity of the crime scene by not disturbing anything (so didn’t go closer to Alex)

they also aren’t EMTs the most they could do is some form of CPR and just wait for an ambulance, and with the amount of blood CPR wouldn’t have saved his life

they think more critically than a normal citizen, they’re trained for these sort of situations unlike the rest of us

[kdesi]

Aaron Nelson needs his own show: “Everybody Hates Aaron” 😂

[dianapaxton]

Are these defense attorneys public defenders?

[TheSanDiegoSteve]

Kind of strange that nobody in the group of the five police officers had a phone with them to take photos or video. It’s almost stranger that the defense attorney didn’t jump all over that after questioning the Sergeant about not having a camera.

[bencarter]

Initially, shouldn't the procedure have been to have a single officer walk to the car to verify that Alex was deceased and not just unconscious at that point?

[romanpochemsaniy]

If those detectives were looking for a missing cop and saw a body laying half way out of a car, they would all be running towards it and blowing in every hole for an hour. But for the rest of the population, I saw with binoculars and my training told me he's gone.