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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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                              6/5/2001 12:33 am

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  Today I didn't get down to the court house until

  10:30 AM. There was an earlier witness, but I don't

  know who it was or what was said. When I arrived

  expert police procedure witness VanBlaracom was

  just going back on the stand. The plaintiff's attorney

  named Jones was questioning him about a list of

  newspaper articles mostly regarding Arndt's conduct

  as a police officer, and other statements by the BPD

  regarding the conduct of other BPD officers working

  in some capacity on the Ramsey case.

  Naturally "Slick Hagglemax" the defense attorney

  was objecting full bore and more often than not

  being over ruled by the judge. I was going to try to

  keep score but lost track after the first 15 minutes

  because Hagglemax insisted on another sidebar

  which I believe the federal trial judge dislikes as it

  impedes progress in the trial and

  inconveniences the jury.

  At some point before lunch the plaintiff wanted to

  show an abridged video tape of a Boulder city

  council meeting. Hagglemax objected of course and

  insisted that we watch the entire meeting, not just

  the important parts.

  So they played the tape. All in all it didn't look that

  great for Kolbe because various City Council

  members were questioning Kolbe's lack of progress

  on many different police issues. His responses to the

  city council members actually cracked me up, not

  because they were humorous. He went through a

  list of various crimes and cases one of which

  included a riot. He felt his problems would be abated

  if there were a lull in crime in Boulder. That's what

  cracked me up. It was like wishing for the "magic

  fairy" just after you have run an ice pick through the

  evaporator of your refrigerator and hear the gas

  leaking out. Subsequently some city council

  members questioned him as to whether or not this

  was actually realistic.

  They also indicated he wasn't doing a good job in

  media relations.

  After the tape, we recessed for lunch. "Reporter"

  from Justice watch invited me to lunch so I finally

  did get a "free lunch" and this time the person that

  offered it did show up.

  After lunch Hagglemax began his cross examination

  of VanBlaracom. This is when I changed his name

  from "Slick Hagglemax" to Weasel Hagglemax. It so

  happened that the judge outside of the view of the

  jury had ordered the plaintiff's attorney to draw up a

  list of newspaper articles with the date, headline,

  and a brief summation of the article so that the jury

  would not be exposed to other prejudicial

  information and reports about the Ramsey case

  which wasn't directly related to Arndt's suit. Well

  slime ball Hagglemax went on and on in front of the

  jury about how this redacted list was invalid and

  should be ignored by the jury even though he knew

  full well that it was something the judge had

  required. However, the jury didn't know that.

  While this apparently is a legal maneuver the judge

  allowed, my sensibilities were affected. As the

  afternoon wore on Hagglemax droned on and on in

  an augmentative tone with the expert witness. I

  finally couldn't stand it any more and left. I don't

  think I'll go back to the trial because I personally

  have had enough of Hagglemax. I just don't care to

  listen to him anymore. So that's my report for the

  day.

  Hopefully ACR will make arrangements with

  "Reporter" to have her court reports for Justice

  Watch also posted here.

  Edited 6/5/01 11:32:46 AM ET by TOADLOAD

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