On day six, the State v. Peel jury returned to the courthouse at 8:30 a.m., starting their deliberations even earlier…
Arguments in State v. Peel ended with a thud, not a bang. After a dispiriting attempt to grind Jim Robinson…
At this trial, every witness seemed to be under suspicion from one side or the other. Every story was subject…
The controversy surrounding Jim Robinson would not die. Phil Weidner wouldn’t let it. Instead, he called him in as a so-called…
As the Peel case wandered into defense territory, Phil Weidner scored a hit. And a miss. It was all about…
One of the witnesses who could damage John Peel was Alice Irons, the waitress who served the Coulthurst’s their last…
The defense’s next expert, meanwhile, openly contradicted the prosecution’s arson investigator. Prosecution expert Barker Davie had opined that the Investor…
The defense was not banking its case entirely on witnesses that could contradict prosecution witnesses. There simply weren’t enough witnesses…
John Peel’s defense predictably countered that testimony pointing to a stocky, dark-complexioned Native man raised questions about a core prosecution…
Allegations of witness manipulation aside, there was one witness the State presumably hadn’t manipulated. He was the first witness for…