================================================================ 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. ================================================================ JonBenet Ramsey Folder - 6-7 (Thur) trial report by JW "reporter" Subscribe From: ACandyRose 6/7/2001 11:11 pm To: ALL (1 of 14) 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. ********************* Options Reply Delete Edit From: ACandyRose 6/7/2001 11:12 pm To: ALL (2 of 14) 876.2 in reply to 876.1 ********************* "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. ************************** Options Reply Delete Edit From: ACandyRose 6/7/2001 11:14 pm To: ALL (3 of 14) 876.3 in reply to 876.2 ************************** 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 *********************************