Time Warp
Time Warp
I’m informed that the court did allow the change of times on the arrest warrants at the Motion Hearing last Monday. This information was not in the court file I was given to look at. So it seems judg
I'm informed that the court did allow the change of times on the arrest warrants at the Motion Hearing last Monday. This information was not in the court file I was given to look at. So it seems judge Deb Lev has allowed the evidence to be changed to match the charges brought by Rick Larsen and the city.
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A search of court records turned up another gem in the Ellen Murphy trial. The city prosecutor, Ryan Anderson, as he sees his case unravel, has now asked that the arrest warrant have the times of the arrest changed. He thinks there was a mistake. He wants the time changed from before 5 pm to after 5 pm. This - after 5 months of being satisfied that the warrants were OK.
This reminds me of the earlier dismissed case against Ellen by the city back on Feb 15, when Anderson admitted he had not read the original No Trespass order until just days before. He had based his entire case on an assumption of what was written on the order - and was wrong - and had to ask for a dismissal. You can read the report on this dismissal from the link below.
Now again it seems that perhaps Ryan Anderson had not read the actual arrest warrant during these 5 months that he has prepared to prosecute Ellen and convict her of a serious crime. Now that the arrest warrant will not support his case, he is asking Judge Debra Lev to allow the times on the warrant to be changed to match the memories of the arresting officers. Never mind what they wrote at the time - last October.
Lev has already disallowed several items that Ellen wished to use in her defense. Having gutted Ellen's defense before the trial, will she now allow the evidence to be distorted to fit the charges? Will she then instruct the jury to only consider guilt or innocence on very narrow criteria - all leading to a conviction? The Hearing to change the arrest warrant times is this Monday, April 2, at 1:30 pm. Ellen's jury trial is scheduled for Tuesday, April 17, 9 am, in judge Debra Lev's Municipal Court.
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A search of court records turned up another gem in the Ellen Murphy trial. The city prosecutor, Ryan Anderson, as he sees his case unravel, has now asked that the arrest warrant have the times of the arrest changed. He thinks there was a mistake. He wants the time changed from before 5 pm to after 5 pm. This - after 5 months of being satisfied that the warrants were OK.
This reminds me of the earlier dismissed case against Ellen by the city back on Feb 15, when Anderson admitted he had not read the original No Trespass order until just days before. He had based his entire case on an assumption of what was written on the order - and was wrong - and had to ask for a dismissal. You can read the report on this dismissal from the link below.
Now again it seems that perhaps Ryan Anderson had not read the actual arrest warrant during these 5 months that he has prepared to prosecute Ellen and convict her of a serious crime. Now that the arrest warrant will not support his case, he is asking Judge Debra Lev to allow the times on the warrant to be changed to match the memories of the arresting officers. Never mind what they wrote at the time - last October.
Lev has already disallowed several items that Ellen wished to use in her defense. Having gutted Ellen's defense before the trial, will she now allow the evidence to be distorted to fit the charges? Will she then instruct the jury to only consider guilt or innocence on very narrow criteria - all leading to a conviction? The Hearing to change the arrest warrant times is this Monday, April 2, at 1:30 pm. Ellen's jury trial is scheduled for Tuesday, April 17, 9 am, in judge Debra Lev's Municipal Court.
