APPARENTLY, THE GRAND JURY WAS LIED TO IN THE JENKINS CASE
OLNEY—When a person lies while they’re under oath, that’s called perjury, and ordinarily, it’s punishable by jail time…you know, as a little reminder that you shouldn’t lie to a judge, a grand jury, or in general in a courtroom setting.
This, however, is Richland County….where plenty of infractions go unpunished, and where people who are just trying to keep the thugs and freaks out of their lives (and off their properties) are the ones who end up getting punished.
Such is the case in the First-Degree Murder trial of Brandon Jenkins, which picked back up again this morning, Monday, April 30, 2012. The first to the stand this morning, Stacy Muncy, literally shredded her own testimony from the grand jury held December 14, 2011, in the case….the grand jury that opted to indict Brandon Jenkins, a Marine and directional oil well driller from Houston, who was in Olney on November 20 when local thug Scott Earp was shot and subsequently died.
Muncy, 43, of West Liberty, ultimately testified that she was too drunk to remember much of anything….but everything she did recall was in direct opposition of testimony already given, and by people who were NOT drunk at the time. She claimed that she was on the northeast side of the canopy/awning at the Olney Super 8 when the gun went off, and while she didn’t SEE what happened, she HEARD gunshots and heart Scott Earp tell his brother, Flavius, that he’d been shot. Muncy claimed to have been about 10 feet away from the confrontation, and that the gunman (Jenkins) burst out the front door of the motel before firing.
However, when video was shown, it clearly showed Jenkins exiting the motel from the east door, not the front (which faces South) and doesn’t show Muncy in the frame at all—and it would have, had she been standing where she CLAIMED she was, both in court today and in the grand jury last year.
Questions and answers were read from the grand jury transcript by defense attorney John O’Gara, and he showed that Muncy claimed there were “three or four” gunshots. However, the tapes—multiple ones—clearly show that only two shots were fired.
By the time this was over with, it was becoming clear that the grand jury was lied to….but it got worse.
Amanda Buerster then took the stand, and through questioning stated that the gunman was in the northwest corner of the awning (not the northeast, from where Jenkins clearly came), and by the way she described it, SHE was between Jenkins and Earp when he fired….and between shots, she had talked to the gunman, trying to calm him down, telling him to put the gun away…oh, and had also gone to Scott Earp’s aid—after he’d stumbled/walked approximately 25 feet from the spot he was standing where he was shot until he collapsed in the flowerbed outside the motel doors—and had talked to him a bit.
O’Gara was priceless when he played the tape and counted the seconds between the shots—EIGHT—and asked her if she’d been able to do all that in eight seconds. She reiterated that she believed it was a “few minutes, or maybe a minute and half” between the two shots (the first of which, she claimed, shot Earp, the second, shooting Chris Arteberry). Of course, she didn’t account for the light-colored truck that clearly entered the video frame and drove across the motel lot at the exact spot she claimed she’d been standing (she wasn’t run over, incidentally) nor the fact that if the first shot had occurred in the time span she claimed it had, SHE would have been shot, as she claimed to have been between Jenkins and Earp.
Clearly, these people, apparently star witnesses for the state, were drunk, or perhaps stoned, when all this went down…maybe the state should have taken that into consideration before bringing them in. Testimony resumes at 1:30. More in a bit.
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Observation and Perception: What you saw vs. what you thought you saw. In a tense situation such as this, things tend to blur a bit, maybe seem like a foggy dream. The sense of time for one–seconds can seem like minutes. As for the counting of shots, if there are more than one, and you are under stress, you cannot accurately say how many there were.
Even if one is stone sober (as opposed to being impaired), they may see things differently. That having been said, It would seem like Amanda Buerster envisions herself as some type of heroine. She tried to talk the gunman out of further violence and rendered aid to the wounded, all while in the line of fire, WOW!
Regardless, they’re all putting Scott in the wrong flowerbox. Literally. Today they all have said he landed in the west flowerbox. All the officials (including ISP) have said he was in the east flowerbox. The shell casings, which eject to the left, were found in the EAST flowerbox. Each one of these numbnut tards today have had the “shooter” in a different place.
What we have here is an Urp fabrication. We’ve seen it before. We sat in on the Ben Greenwood beating hearings and this is the same obfuscation they used then….they confuse the matter so badly that NO ONE knows what the fuck is going on. It’s not playing in their favor this time. The forensics don’t bear out their testimony, what little forensics there are….and they’re too stupid to have thought of that in advance when they were concocting their stories.
I see your point,the physical evidence absolutely cannot lie; witnesses can. The security cameras recorded much of this incident, and that should tell the tale.
As Larry The Cable Guy would say, “I don’t care WHO you are THIS is some FUNNY SHIT.”
Well…not if you’re Mr. Jenkins and his family. But for those accustomed to The Same Old Same Old…it seems that The Worm is Turning?!
I haven’t a clue what Mr. O’Gara looks like, but I keep having these mental pictures of a well-dressed, plesant, mannerly dude (of a certain age – didn’t just fall offa turnip truck) strolling around, sincerely addressing the jurors, making points in a calm and melodious courtroom voice.
BUT inside the Theater Screen of my MIND I rather see a Mr. O’Gara IMO who has GOTTA feel kind of like we old people can remember the comedian “Gallegher” when he reached for his mallet and began wildly smashing all kinds of vegetables.
Da Judge has the gavel, which perhaps he won’t have to use. But Mr. O’Gara possesses the sledge hammer.
And One PaperWeight, perhaps holding down a lettuce leaf, or “onion skin paper” is smashed via proximity.
Any thinking person would have looked at the video then corroborated the testimony with the video. Also, anytime that a firearm is discharged in the commission of a crime the shell casing and the expended bullets are collected (if possible) then matched with the suspect weapon. The casing matched with the firing pin and extractor and the bullet matched to the rifling lands in the barrel. If there were any casualties then the clothing of the casualty would be collected along with photographic evidence of the wounds. Powder residue tests would be ran on the suspect and the casualties. None of these protocols appear to have been observed.
That being said, what kind of idiots did Rands\Hyde think would be sitting on this jury? These idiots watched the video tape and still went ahead and convinced a grand jury that a firearm was discharged in a vehicle! Clearly the prosecution withheld critical evidence from the grand jury. Is it a stretch to think that in their minds these 2 judicial scholars they actually could not conceive that any of these upright citizens might be lying their asses off? So much for “due diligence”.
Not sure which entity could\will levy the charges of perjury. I mean, if it is the states attorney then Rerun Arteberry can breathe a little easier. If it is Dunn then that might be another story. Not sure if O’Gara can appeal to Dunn to levy the charges.
Whatever.
I would not want to be Mr. Funnyface Chinbeard right now. But then again this is the same court that “punishes” people who steal hundreds of thousands from an employer by making them pay it off at a rate of 50 dollars a month.
Can’t wait for Jack’s update with Flavius’ testimony. I’m sure that there will be plenty of Texas ninjas attacking him and his group of Jehovah Witnesses whose only crime was ministering to those lost, drunken souls on that fateful night.
One last comment. A Facebook lookup of the females that are testifying convinces me that Scott was in dire need of an eye exam.
Facebook pictures? Yeah. Hardly glamour shots. IF he is as heaven-bound as all of his supporters believe, not-a-problem. GLORIOUSly perfect vision, correct?
But hey…didn’t they ALL have their Beer Goggles On?
In checking it LOOKS like only another Grand Jury can indict for levying charges of prior perjury to a different grand jury.
Would Jimmy The Greek even take odds of THAT happening? Not much chance unless it gets way out of the area and in the realm of Legal Beagles, IMO.
Ok. But who convenes the grand jury whose purpose is to prove perjury? The states attorney? Yeah right. Of course he will convene that grand jury. I mean, come on, he has to preserve his credibility, right?
Good question, ahm. Generally the prosecutor convenes a G-J it seems. I did a bit of looking around, but all that legalese made my butt tired real fast.
Maybe Jack with his background can clarify it as he did that “nullification” process awhile back so a jury can ignore a law they think sucks bilgewater.
IF I was reading what I thought I was a few moments ago, there can be what would be sort of like “Citizen’s Arrest” as citizens call their own grand jury. Wow. And people ARE getting het up about this.
I’d think a prosecutor NOT wanting to do the will of the people would be between a rock and a hard place…and maybe, just maybe,keep public funds going into personal larder by calling a G-J and leave whoever holding the bag.
It usually reaches a point with such shennanigans where it becomes:
Every man for himself!
David Hyde (duly elected; but he lets Rands do all his work) would NEVER convene a grand jury in order to study a perjury charge.
I think in some states the judge can actually declare someone being perjurous and ask them to be removed from the witness chair and jailed, as it is considered civil contempt (CC, when it’s filed, as in 2012-CC-01) and is a civil matter with a fine of up to six months in jail. But I think in Illinois a grand jury does have to be convened in order to find perjury….and that’s just not gonna happen in this case.
Desiring to have a face for The Defense I search engined John O’Gara. He appears to be a nice, nice fellow.
In true crime books (like Ann Rule made famous) authors go into the nuts and bolts behind all The Major Player.
A wonderful article that to me made Mr. O’Gara come across as a “real person” as he was cameo’d elsewhere over, what I’m sure, was a much more unpopular client than Brandon Jenkins, the one-time body guard of the famous Joyce Meyers Evangelist who was convicted of murdering his wife and two sons.
The article states O’Gare has uber-respect for the Constitution, and in that vein, everyone IS entitled to a serious defense.
http://www.bnd.com/2009/09/13/921340/coleman-lawyer-i-try-to-see-jesus.html
I try to behave myself. Ain’t got any lawyer on Speed Dial…but if I needed one… :p
….and Jenkins gets set free, the sh1tbirds and their flock (minus one) go back to being themselves, the city/ county gets the livin’ sh1t sued out of ‘em, insurance pays Jenkins far less than the ordeal warrants, and far less than the impact this has had on his life and the lives of those that love him…as for the prosecution, when you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is put down the shovel…
C’mon, people! Jack ASKED NICELY. Please help out. Clicks, hits, and commentary are the life’s blood of sites such as this as well as forums and other online platforms for communication and sharing thoughts…while the First Amendment still stands and WE CAN.
Quote Jack almost 24 hours ago:
Disclosure NewsMagazine Monthly C’mon peeps….keep the comments & clicks coming for the podcasts…..we won’t be available to update for a few more hours yet…..sorry about that… (Unquote)
Most people haven’t a clue what a meat-grinder being in the media IS, and our favorite journalists won’t beg and belabor the point, but at this moment in time, I am sure they’d enjoy more comments to edify them as they do what they are doing. And doing it so well.
(Reading the same coverage in the ODM yesterday online made me wonder if all reporters were in different locations, LOL…)
Anyway, for those who’ve buried someone near and dear, you look back and realize that in giving the departed a decent burial, the survivors “lose a week of their lives” to the matter. So it IS in covering a trial. And in this particular travesty of a trial, frankly, there IS some “grieving” being done aside from Brandon Jenkins’ consanguine family.
I tried to do my part yesterday, posting, but felt I was “talking to myself”. Where are all the regulars? The names I became accustomed to seeing before I (finally)signed in m’self.
Please take a moment. Sites like this don’t run themselves and when Jack and Ang are sequestered in a very secure courtroom without electronic toys to stay in touch with those of us in the ‘outside world’, it’s almost like they are put in solitary confinement (except in a midst of a crowd of others in the same straits) and the courtroom becomes a World Of Its Own where the outside world is almost as if it is momomentarily non-existent. Noon recesses are too brief a break for a journalist who has to multi-task in those moments unlike others have any conception.
This is a grinding and exhausting situation for them, I know. IF you appeciate their hard work (and I know their supporters REALLY DO) then IMO try to help out by putting individual shoulders to the wheel and commenting so there are new thoughts, impressions from others sharing to “keep the clicks coming”.
A little encouragement can make heavy tasks and chores go a lot easier. Just pointing out some facts from the Media Life. Thanks, y’all!
-Hillbilly