When Larry Demmert took the stand on March 17th, the prosecution strategy was to keep his testimony to a minimum.…
After declaring Dawn Holmstrom a hostile witness, Judge Carpeneti hoped to get the trial back on track. Once the jury…
Dawn Holmstrom had, at one time, made grand jury statements incriminating John Kenneth Peel as the one responsible for killing…
Not much had changed with Dawn Holmstrom, except that her memory was two years older. She still wanted — and…
Dr. Lowell Levine wasn’t just any forensic odontologist. At the time of his testimony, he had recently identified the remains…
Judge’s tell juries that opening statements are not evidence. These emotion-laden declarations, the reasoning goes, put facts second. They are…
Mary Anne Henry’s opening statement in the second trial began where her first one left off. She even started with…
With the jury seated, Judge Carpeneti faced a barrage of requests. As always, the agenda featured old allegations and even…
After nearly two months of jury selection, however, it wasn’t the occupations of prospective jurors or Josef Princiotta that halted…
Jury selection is a fraught ritual, especially in an emotion-laden mass murder case. And then, with potential jurors already gathered…