That's what I thought.
And there will be various other politicians, who have no doubt made comments on the case, or have pressed for the death penalty, who will be up for election.
Oh well, cat and mouse it is.
Valid point. I didn't keep up with all the politicans that commented on the case. But I do know that he Governor of Idaho and the mayor of the city of Moscow, both talked about the case before there was an arrest.
The Coroner Cathy Mabbutt was just re-elected, I think in 2022. Someone did post online how to get her election re-called because of things she said in some interviews and how she waited until about 5 or 5:30 pm to show up at the crime scene when she was called shortly after 12 noon. She claimed in one interview that she was letting LE do their thing. But there is Idaho law code that states that she is suppose to work with LE to investigate the scene.
I think that JJJ is just trying to get re-elected when he told Anne Taylor that he doesn't want to schedule the trial for 2025 during the Jan 2024 and Feb 2024 hearings. He said that it's not fair to the families of the victims for a 2025 trial date and I think that this should go to trial in 2024. Same with Bill Thompson too, when in the Jan 2024 hearing, he wanted a Summer 2024 trial. Because the high school is just up the street from the court house and he was worried about the limited parking at the court house for the media and the witnesses. In addition Bill Thompson mentioned that there are a lot of sporting events during the fall and spring semesters at the college, that take up all of the lodging. He said that it's not fair for the community to be inconvenienced by this trial or something to that effect. I was like omg this guy's life is on the line and he was worried about hotels and parking and traffic. But after the defense mentioned that it takes a long time to get ready for this kind of trial and then Bill Thompson stood up and said that what the defense said was true. That's when JJJ was willing to go along with a 2025 trial date but said that it did want to but he may have to do it that way. I was like omg, this wild. Also someone point out that when Bill Thomson filed that paper work asking for a 2024, Bill already knew that there was no way that this trial was going to happen in the summer of 2024, he was just trying to make the defense to look bad. Also the defense pointed out that she doesn't think that the state has all of the discovery yet during one of the recent hearings. This is a hot mess of a case imo.
I don't think that the back and forth is going to stop anytime soon. The prosecution just fights everything that the defense request or wants to do. They are not use to death penalty cases, I think that there has only be one other case. I also heard that Bill is use to getting plea deals and he's not use to going to trial from what I understand. But I could be wrong. I heard rumors that Bill thought that defendant would take a plea deal but that didn't happened.
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