Trial is in California. Two girls accuse an Marine Captain of raping them by using a date rape drug while they were all on a law school trip to New Orleans. New Orleans DA took a look at the allegations and declined to prosecute. University of San Diego investigated and decided that the charges were unsubstantiated. The girls then contacted the Marine Corps. NCIS got involved and began to fabricate evidence and testimony. The investigation took nearly a year. They have destroyed his life and ended his career. Next week I start with some pretrial motions and then jury selection. Itâs expected to be an 8-10 day trial. From: Marjorie Russell [mailto:russellm@cooley.edu] when and where will you be in trial? you know we can always do prep sessions for you too buddy :-) yes do send updates, the whole group loved them very very useful and more focused than many :-) sending you the good energy
Iâm going to be in DC during the first session and next week Iâll be in trial on a fairly substantial rape case. Iâll send updates. From: Marjorie Russell [mailto:russellm@cooley.edu] Please make the usual announcement, and/or plan to attend and/or invite others [non-lawyers welcome!] no preparation or prerequisites needed Please email russellm@cooley.edu including date of session if you plan to attend Wed 2/16 3-6pm CC 635 case development session with attorney Cheryl Carpenter this case is a retrial after a hung jury prior counsel did not have full investigation Tue 2/22 3-6pm CC 505 same case we will be conducting practice jury voir dire YOU can be a juror and see what it is like from their side! IMPORTANT: you may only participate in one of these sessions if you want the jury experience, please do not attend the case session if you attend the case session, you may observe jury selection, but not participate as a juror [because you would already know about the case] thank you! |