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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 - 6-7

(Thur) trial report by JW "reporter"

From:

ACandyRose

6/7/2001 11:11 pm

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ALL

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876.1

6-7 (Thurs) trial report by JW "reporter"

"Arndt Day 9, part 1"

Posted by reporter on 18:54:45 6/07/2001

Arndt Day 9 part 1

You are welcome to post this on another forum but

please credit it.

First impressions: Ahh today the invisible telegraph

must have said "Wear white" Court reporter, lady

who manages the court room, Linda Arndt, Judith

Biggs, Owen Good (RMN), Boulder Daily reporter,

myself and some jurors all wore white tops or all

white.

To begin: The cross examination continues. The

police report is brought out and referred to. Probably

from some secure place. At one point LA answered

"The Boulder District Attorney did not take many

cases to trial". She testified that her credibility has

never before been attacked in a trial. She stated "I

was the outcast of the Division."

Halaby tries to make a point that Linda didn’t ask

enough for help up the chain of command. Portrays

her as not trying. She is trying to say she asked for

help and was ignored. Halaby’s questions are artfully

crafted and very compound. Trying to do a yes or

no is almost impossible.

She testified to calls and notes which frightened

her. Did you ever tape anyone without their

knowledge? Yes. (So "lots of tapes exist of

meetings, phone conversations, voice mail and

broadcasts) She denies saying "John Ramsey is

mind-fucking me". She kept notes of that meeting

but denies reviewing tape for this testimony.

LA said in a meeting that John Ramsey has a good

idea I think he killed his daughter. Her report was

released to Ramsey legal team without her

knowledge or approval or knowledge or approval of

the BPD Ramsey Investigative Team.

Koby told her it would be highly unlikely that JR

would harm her. Halaaby uses the term Mind Fucker

about 8 times and enjoys saying it (It seems).

You were never physically threatened? No

She felt, and reported, that JR would use mental

techniques or people close to me to frighten or

threaten her.

To your knowledge no family member or friend was

threatened? Correct

She said she was keeping her immediate supervisor

Sgt Wickham apprised of her work but that her

reports were not being passed upwards. "I didn’t feel

Sgt Wickham was being straight with me/" "I was

being excluded from the Investigation Team"

Halaby asked, "You wanted to stay on the team?

Even though it was a lot of work? Even though

everyone had their lives altered? Everyone was

making a great personal sacrifice? Yes to each

question.

Ok, I have done two pages and will write the

Impressions Department and then post the next

segment in a separate post.

Impressions: The McVeigh hoopla continues and I

have snapped some photos with my little disposable

camera. I have to laugh at the millions of dollars of

techno and photo equipment and I use my little

$5.99 Walgreens disposable. Got some photos of

Dan Abrams. Why do people come to a trial like this?

You are on the Boulder payroll, you are family or

friend on one side, you are a paid reporter and a few

of us who just come.

Stay tuned because there is some great stuff about

Linda’s notes.

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ACandyRose

6/7/2001 11:12 pm

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"Arndt Day 9, part 2"

Posted by reporter on 18:56:07 6/07/2001

Now for a very exciting part. During the depositions

it was learned that she had notes of the January 4

obtaining of Patsy’s exemplars which have never

been turned into an official report.

LA was not able to complete her report of January

4. Notes of that day were kept at a safe place,

according to Linda. She tries not to tell, but is finally

ordered by the judge to tell. A friend’s house.

These notes were not provided to the BPD were

they? No

There were three reasons.

1. Sgt Mason turned over his notes when he was

removed from the case and the notes disappeared.

2. Since Sgt Wickham did not ask for them I planned

to use them to complete my reports.

3. I didn’t trust members of the Investigation Team

or supervisors of the BPD to handle these notes

properly.

Until she left April 1, 1999, they were kept in a

locked drawer of her desk at work. These were NOT

secret notes. She had openly used them during

meetings of the Ramsy investigation team and they

all knew she had them. The judge clears up that

these notes have now been turned over to the

police. "Good" he says.

Linda seems to find the questions hard to answer.

Will the jury think it is because the questions are so

complex? Because she is tired? Or is she being

evasive or can’t remember?

Side bar??

Now the questioning is very long on how ‘she didn’t

have time". Not when you were on leave? ‘Not to

this day" Something is definitely going on here. The

courtroom is so quiet you could hear a pin drop on

the carpet. No one hardly breathes.

"In removing these notes without having written

your report (of January 4) you did not inform anyone

in the BPD about these notes?

She sealed them and have them to a friend. "Why

were they sealed?" They were important to the

Ramsey investigation.

Halaby has copies of these notes but demands that

the originals be turned over to him tomorrow.

Someting is very important here. Jury is impassive.

More later. Must break for dinner.

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ACandyRose

6/7/2001 11:14 pm

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3. "REst of the story"

Posted by reporter on 20:12:18 6/07/2001

There was a lengthy part about which days of her

investigation had generated an official report. By my

reckoning, there are some missing day, among them

Jan 4. Cmnd Eller wanted her to get in more and

more timely reports. Sgt Wickham hadn't been aware

that in addition to Ramsey duty she was also doing

other casses. She keeps saying she 'could not

complete that report". I am wondering when we will

find out why. Halaby doesn't actually ask her that.

Do you hve any concern for the identification and

convictions of the perpeterators of this crime? A

heartfelt Yes I do.

There was clarificaton to the jury that the magazine

articles etc. are admitted not for their truth, but for

showing the state of mind of Linda and the effect

they had on her. The judge says that only those

who sit in the "hot seat" (witness box) are to be

used as the determinoers of truth

They now go line by line through the Vanity Fair

article.

*my comment: by 3 pm only 16 spectators remain in

the courtroom. out of the 8 jurors, 7 keep close

eyes on the lawyer or witness, one looks at the

audience a lot.

Bardach was contacting LA's family and friends so

Linda called her at her hotel and arranged to go

there. She went there and called from lobby. She

told Bardach that if she wanted to know anything

ask her, and leave her family and friends alone.

Bardach cam down and the two of them spoke in

the hotel restaurant. LA told her that except for the

fact that LA WAS at the Ramseys on Dec 26, she

had her facts about Linda wrong. Linda doesn't

remember which facts exactly Bardach told her

would be in the article.

Halaby now goes over it line by line and is

impeaching Linda by showing that some most of

what was said about Linda was true in part. Linda

seemed to have looked at the part of each

statement that was NOT true, Halaby concentrates

on the part that WAS true. Believe me, I wrote that

in a sentence. This took FOREVER to accomplish,

one complex question at a time.

Examples: Place body by Christmas tree. No, it was

closest to the piano.

Patsy collapsed on JB. No, she put her body on

lower part of JB, over the blanket which covered her

body. Some other things she said were inaccurate,

but did not specify exactly how. There WAS a

prayer, She dis not continue a relation with Patsy,

although she spoke to Barbara Fernie.

Bardach said on Boyles that Hunter and RAmsey

team leaked stuff but BPD "were zipped shut". Would

that surprise you? yes

Now it was 5 pm. I was falling off the bench so I let

you guys down and went home. Saw the big events

of the McVeigh announcement that no more appeals

will take place.

No more now until Monday. I will let you know if I

can be there or not. I am on the crappy computer

and will not spell check or edit. Have a good

weekend everyone

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