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| | No Verdict Yet! But The Fate Of Kelly Soo Park Lies In The Hands Of 12 Jurors Who Want To Hear The Damning Evidence Over And Over Again...
By Lonce LaMon - May 28, 2013
I know it’s a risky idea to try and predict what a jury will decide. I’ve heard it said hundreds of times: don’t try to guess the outcome of a deliberating jury. You’ll be wrong.
You never know what a jury is going to do. It’s so unpredictable. Don’t try to guess. All juries are different. The dynamics can go from one end of the spectrum of humanity to the other.
Is the fact the jury is taking its time with the fate of accused murderer Kelly Soo Park and asking for many read backs an indication the jury is split? Does it mean one or two or more jurors are undecided? Does it mean there’s going to be a hung jury? Does it mean they don’t believe the evidence?
Today starting at 1:30 pm the jury requested more read-backs. There was a good read-back on last Friday of the testimony of Annette McCall, the DNA analyst. However today, a read-back of the testimony of crime scene analyst Jennifer Kapala Zychowski was done along with more read-back of Annette McCall and even some repetition of her testimony read back from Friday.
Read-back of the testimony of the first policemen on the scene was also done. Police Sergeant Robert Hernandez was the first to respond on March 16th 2008. “I responded to a radio call… to check the status.” John Gilmore, victim Juliana Redding’s on-again-off-again boyfriend, was outside talking on his cell phone.
“I began looking for ways to get into the apartment,” Hernandez testified. Everything was locked. “I requested an officer expert in lock-picking.” A Greg Capp was called. A Ron Little assisted—eventually. Officer Capp picked the lock on the rear security gate.
Sergeant Hernandez got near the apartment and managed to pry open a window. He smelled gas. He requested the Santa Monica Fire Department to come and stand by. A fireman noticed a knob on the stove was turned on with no flame. He turned it off.
The testimony of officer Richard Lewis, a Sergeant of the Santa Monica police department, was read back. He testified how the living room looked disheveled and a table leg was twisted. The lamp was not plugged in.
Crime scene analyst Jennifer Kapala Zychowski testified to how she noticed what she thought could be a spot of blood on the latent finger print card of the print lifted from the orange plate found in the kitchen sink at the crime scene. She noticed this possible blood spot months after it was lifted from the scene by forensic specialist Leslie Funo. She described it as being about the size of the eraser on the end of a pencil.
It turned out that it was blood and Annette McCall, the DNA analyst, made a profile for it. It matched a profile from the other items analyzed from the crime scene—Juliana’s neck, tank top, cell phone…. the stove knob, the door knob—and eventually Kelly Soo Park “could not be eliminated as a source” of the DNA of the blood on the latent print card as well as the other items aforementioned. The blood on the latent print card was a single source profile. The frequency factor of finding another DNA profile which could not be eliminated as a source of the DNA from the blood from the print card was one in one trillion (1 in 1,000,000,000,000).
Jennifer Kapala Zychowski testified to how she matched the latent fingerprint from the orange plate from the crime scene to the left thumb print from Kelly Soo Park’s left thumb print on the 10-print-card that was made of all her fingerprints when she was arrested. She showed on the screen with different colors following the grooves how the curves and the branches from both left thumb prints all followed identical patterns. She determined the prints were a match.
Cathy Kuwahara, the supervisor of Jennifer Kapala Zychowski, who reviewed the examination of the fingerprint cards confirmed Jennifer’s conclusion that they were indeed a match.
The testimony from the forensic scientists and the first cops on the crime scene was read back until after 3:00 pm.
Why all this read back? I believe the jurors just want to hear it all again so they can say with absolute certainty and conviction for the rest of their lives they made no mistake. They want to be a hundred percent sure they really didn’t have a brain fade when they listened to the copious testimony. So much condemning evidence has a shock value, so one needs it repeated. Can it really be real?
They take deciding upon a verdict of guilty of first degree murder done with malice aforethought very seriously. They aren’t going to just whip it out without going over the evidence, ad nauseum. They want to listen to the testimony over and over again so they can say when they deliver a verdict of guilty that there’s no way they could have been wrong. Kelly Soo Park will go to prison for 25 years to life. That’s the rest of her life behind bars. So the jurors aren’t going to make haste with such a monumental sealing of the fate of Kelly Soo Park’s remaining life.
I believe the verdict will be guilty-- first degree murder. I have listened to the entire body of testimony. All of it coalesces well beyond the pale of a reasonable doubt. There’s no way anyone other than Kelly Soo Park could have committed this crime of the murder of Juliana Redding. And there’s no way anybody other than Dr. Munir Uwaydah could have driven her to it-- with only the exception of the devil himself.
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