Pudding Pie

After a week of trial drama we have closing arguments.

Let’s see the trial was delayed by the defense attorneys flu-like symptons. Described on Twitter in full, graphic, projectile detail.

We had the defendant’s aunt who referred to him as “Georgie” – look there’s Georgie.

Then we had the hired gun… an expert witness who’s planned testimony was severely truncated by the defense emailing their witness the answers before the test. What he did testify to didn’t hold up, in my opinion. He sounded like a hired mouthpiece. And a petulant one, at that.

The jury instructions have been given, closing arguments are underway and soon, maybe even today, we shall know.

I want to hear the details of how the instructions were given, the jury will be deciding whether this was an intentional act, if was 2nd degree murder, if there was grand larceny or petit larceny – goes to felony murder, or if it was manslaughter. If the law was made clear they should convict of first degree murder. The kicked down door provides all the intent they need and nothing the defense put forward offers any other sensible explanation.

Of course the jury could even OJ and go with involuntary manslaughter or even acquit and decide it was all an unfortunate accident and she was too drunk to move off the bloody pillow and asphyxiated herself. (Laughable, really, but this is the defense’s theory.)

Did he intend to attack her? Absolutely. Did he intend for her to die? I don’t know if he put the thought in those terms. I believe he intended to control her, destroy her.

The jury by the way is young. Someone in the trial or the press referred to them as smart looking. But juries are unpredictable and at this stage I always get nervous.

Georgie Porgie Pudding Pie
Kissed the girls and made them cry
When the boys came out to play
Georgie Porgie ran away

Reading the live tweets of the closing I picture this…

Yeardley hears George, she wants him to go away and her door is locked.

Then he kicks the door down and pounces….  everything that happened -however it happened – after the kicking down the door resulted in her death.

He quickly overpowers her, when he leaves she is at the very least unconscious never to recover.

Back at his apartment suddenly the life of the party has nothing to say, he goes to bed and hopes that by morning it will all go away.

The jury will have the case soon, lets see what happens

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And the defense moves to dismiss all but the grand larceny charge. Predictable move. Just as predictably, the prosecution argued that breaking in, assaulting Yeardley, and stealing the computer will all part of the same criminal enterprise – the argument for the felony murder charge.

Judge Hogshire – there is ample evidence to find in favor of the Commonwealth’s case. Motion to dismiss is overruled, carry on.

The prosecution wrapped its case by describing the Huguely’s activities and movements on the last day, the Baltimore Sun article is here.

George’s day planner might have looked like this:

9 am ish wake up drunk

harass neighbor/teammate

drink throughout golf outing

drink throughout dinner after the golf outing

11:30ish disappear for a time (confront Yeardley Love)

return, call and text 3 different girls trying to “get together and hangout”  — alibi fishing?

lie to roommates about where he had been

go to bed drunk

Another notable note? Most of the day was spent with his father on the father/son golf tournament. They argued about the volume of the music in the car, the grad gift that George V didn’t particularly like, and when V dropped a bottle of wine at the restaurant, IV (dad) told him he should stop drinking.

ya think?

Such a tragic waste.

following: @NBC29Huguely