OOC Post: Trial Results
[[Hey guys, since logging out the trial proved to be more tedious than expected, here are the results of what happened. Feel free to assume the trial just ended.]]
The question of why Maya was being placed on the stand in the first place was answered rather quickly: she was confessing to the crime. Phoenix immediately began picking apart Maya’s testimony, and as he did so it became increasingly obvious that someone was forcing Maya to take the heat for the crime. At first, the defense focused on proving that Maya had nothing to do with the Grif murder, using the golf club’s lack of fingerprints and the trail leading to Teatime’s workplace as examples.
Phoenix was dissuaded from this line of questioning prior to the trial's start, however, by his girlfriend Medusa, who insisted that Teatime was innocent and that a third party was responsible for Grif’s killing. To this end, Phoenix focused on the footprints at Grif’s murder site, pointing out that neither Maya nor Teatime’s feet were big enough to fit the bill. Franziska, increasingly unhappy with the direction the trial was taking, replied that either of them could have been wearing boots- it was at this point that Phoenix noticed the inconsistency concerning the drag marks- namely, that there were drag marks in the first place. The strength needed to kill Grif would be directly proportional to the strength needed to drag or carry the body. If Teatime had the strength to bash his head in, he wouldn’t need to drag the body; if Maya had needed to drag the body, she wouldn’t have been able to bash his skull in. Two different people were at the crime scene: one person strong enough to kill Grif, and one person weak enough to have to drag his body. Phoenix pointed this out, proving that neither Maya nor Teatime could have killed Grif.
With this major hole blown in Maya’s testimony, Phoenix and Franziska turned back to the Godot murder. It was painfully apparent that the evidence contradicted Maya’s story: the knife fingerprints, open window, sleeping powder in the coffee maker, and blood spots on the table all pointed out that the “killing” was set up, not a sudden attack. Maya has refused to recant her testimony, however, and the trial has been forced to temporarily disassemble.
The question of why Maya was being placed on the stand in the first place was answered rather quickly: she was confessing to the crime. Phoenix immediately began picking apart Maya’s testimony, and as he did so it became increasingly obvious that someone was forcing Maya to take the heat for the crime. At first, the defense focused on proving that Maya had nothing to do with the Grif murder, using the golf club’s lack of fingerprints and the trail leading to Teatime’s workplace as examples.
Phoenix was dissuaded from this line of questioning prior to the trial's start, however, by his girlfriend Medusa, who insisted that Teatime was innocent and that a third party was responsible for Grif’s killing. To this end, Phoenix focused on the footprints at Grif’s murder site, pointing out that neither Maya nor Teatime’s feet were big enough to fit the bill. Franziska, increasingly unhappy with the direction the trial was taking, replied that either of them could have been wearing boots- it was at this point that Phoenix noticed the inconsistency concerning the drag marks- namely, that there were drag marks in the first place. The strength needed to kill Grif would be directly proportional to the strength needed to drag or carry the body. If Teatime had the strength to bash his head in, he wouldn’t need to drag the body; if Maya had needed to drag the body, she wouldn’t have been able to bash his skull in. Two different people were at the crime scene: one person strong enough to kill Grif, and one person weak enough to have to drag his body. Phoenix pointed this out, proving that neither Maya nor Teatime could have killed Grif.
With this major hole blown in Maya’s testimony, Phoenix and Franziska turned back to the Godot murder. It was painfully apparent that the evidence contradicted Maya’s story: the knife fingerprints, open window, sleeping powder in the coffee maker, and blood spots on the table all pointed out that the “killing” was set up, not a sudden attack. Maya has refused to recant her testimony, however, and the trial has been forced to temporarily disassemble.