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For the record, the following are "personal notes or personal observations" by an Internet posters attending the Linda Arndt Civil Trial in 2001. This information was either posted on the ACandyRose Internet Subculture Public Forum or permission was given for the information to be copied from the Justice Watch Forum to be "shared" for the Internet community following the JonBenet Ramsey murder case. All postings are based on personal opinion and observations of the individual posters.

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    JonBenet Ramsey Folder - 6-5 (Tue)

 trial report by JW "reporter"

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       ACandyRose

                               6/5/2001 8:55 pm

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  Thanking "Reporter" again for allowing us to post her

  reports here on this forum to share with everybody.

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  "Arndt Day 7, part 1"

  Posted by reporter on 18:17:13 6/05/2001

  The courtroom starts out pretty empty today. 3

  jurors have on dark clothes, 3 women have spring

  clothes and 1 man has on a light blue shirt. All jurors

  have been given note pads and thick, black binders

  into which they can put things entered into

  evidence.

  Having agreed between themselves to dismiss Van

  Blaricom, the defense calls Judith Fischer, LA’s

  therapist. She came to the therapist because of

  recurring nightmares, extreme fear, headaches,

  recurring, intrusive thoughts, digestive problems. It

  was hard to listen to an account of a personal

  therapist putting out intimate details of such a

  painful and personal nature.

  *New tidbit I had not heard before. Linda was not

  debriefed by the BPD, standard after bing so pivotal

  in the early hours, and to this day has not been

  debriefed. Will be interesting to see the opposition

  on this.

  The testimony was long and a bit tedious. Most of it

  was regarding LA’s ongoing trauma and Post

  Traumatic Stress Syndrome. She thought she was

  suspected of department leaks. Hearing this

  testimony made me look at Koby and Beckner and

  wonder if they feel any guilt at the pain this woman

  and officer has endured. (Clearly, my bias is coming

  out).

  After she finally left the department, having

  outlasted Koby, Eller and Thomas, she was seeking

  employment anything and no one would give her a

  job. Her decision to leave gave her both relief and

  devastation.

  As LA’s financial situation grew worse the therapist

  offered a much reduced price. Linda, being proud

  and honorable, chose instead to reduce her sessions

  with the therapist.

  The cross was sort of interesting. Lots of

  maneuvering on Halaby’s part to portray her as less

  than a competent therapist. Or on the fringes of the

  therapy world. She evidently keeps very sketchy

  records and much was made of that. The jury was

  dismissed for lunch and then the Judge told Halaby

  that his examination of Fischer was like a mouse

  playing with a dead mouse. The questions had been

  asked and answered many, many times. The the

  judge had to say that he meant no disrespect of the

  therapist. There is some crappola out of the hearing

  of the jury about a prior therapist whose records

  were stolen. No resolution on that. Back shortly with

  Arndt’s testimony.

  Hey, no more 'thank you' posts needed. You should

  ask questions or make comments. I do appreciate all

  of your words, though and if you were all here,

  wouldn’t we all just ride that shuttle and go to

  lunch!

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  "Reporter" also wrote an "Arndt Trial, Impressions"

  which I will post shorty and I don't know if that is

  what she considered part 2 of the report so I will

  wait and see if she posted more at Justice Watch. I

  am not a member there so I have to have somebody

  else get it for me. I will put the "impressions" on

  another thread.

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  "Arndt trial, Day 7, part 2"

  Posted by reporter on 18:52:26 6/05/2001

  Linda got on the stand about 2 pm. Born and raised

  in Minnesota, dad was a cop and mayor, sounds like

  the salt of the earth family. Many are in attendance

  at the trial for her. They went through her training,

  education and many awards.

  Interesting question: Was there internal politics in

  the department at that time (March 1997)

  Answer: There CERTAINLY was!

  She says she has not (to this day) been debriefed

  about what happened to me on December 26

  LA ate at Dot’s Diner with Chief Koby on April 8,

  1997. At that time the media bashing of her had not

  begun. 2 key witnesses had contacted LA and said

  they were worried that a tabloid was going to name

  them as suspects. She warned Koby about this and

  wanted to protect the witnesses from being

  harassed by the media. Koby then had a meeting

  with the Public Informaton Officer (Susan Laurien?).

  Koby thought it should be just let be, let it lie. Media

  will spin anyway. Others at the meeting thought

  they had an obligation to do something, the sooner

  the better. A press release was issued saying these

  2 were witnesses not suspects.

  Cmdr Eller told LA that it was the history of the BPD

  to deny a problem and look for a scapegoat and

  warned her that things would get worse.

  Eller told her, on the very night of Dec 26 that she

  might be in danger, to vary her route home. She

  was a key witness and the murderer might not want

  her to testify.

  Then there was a lot of testimony about Peter

  Boyles and how damaging he and Chuck Green were

  to her reputation. A tape was played of LA calling

  Koby and asking him to back her up.

  She finally took medical leave May 15 because she

  had been taken off the Ramsey team, was

  exhausted and it seemed a good time to do so.

  "This isn’t about me" she said, "It is bigger than

  about me. It goes to the credibility of the

  department and the truth of the ramsey

  investigation."

  May 22 Koby saw her at a health club and told her

  the Boyles tapes were being collected and he and

  Union Rep would decide if they should sue Boyles.

  No one ever got back to her about that. Boyles was

  making statements that she had sent the FBI away

  and didn’t collect the flashlight. Both are untrue.

  *New item: several time the words "unclothed body

  of JonBenet" have been used. Is it possible that she

  had less on? Why are they using those words?

  The stories took on a life of their own and kept

  multiplying, and multiplying.

  Did she give the Ramseys a sample of the ransom

  note. Yes, it was requested and AUTHORIZED BY

  ELLER, but was given AFTER the Ramseys had given

  samples of handwriting.

  Her father wrote 4 letters to police and Hunter. No

  response from police, although Hunter responded.

  In talking about a letter from The Globe News

  Department, the judge said, Is this for real?? Does

  the Globe HAVE a news department? That was

  funny.

  Again Eller warned her that things could get worse

  and that Beckner (now Chief) did not think well of

  her.

  The only tear we saw was when she was asked to

  tell about her quitting the department. A fellow work

  person (I don’t know who) said to her upon

  witnessing her being berated for something minor,

  You really ARE the bastard child aren’t you?

  She returns to the stand tomorrow at 8:45

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