The Trial channel4 9pm

Panthro

Anyone watching? Its on for 5 nights I think.
Hard to bear in mind it's all made up!
They've gone to a lot of effort with the story line

s3rtvdbwfj81ch

yeah, watched it. They are doing a good drip feeding the information.

Don't know if I'll watch at 9 each night, but will watch the whole thing.

Panthro

I'm convinced it was not the husband but the other fella

D0NNELLY

He turned on airplane mode to save battery, but sat on the bench and played a game on his phone!!

Panthro

Put him on the stand !
Had to be innocent

D0NNELLY

Panthro wrote: »

Put him on the stand !
Had to be innocent

Short fuse, could hang himself!

Penn

They overdid it. Simon's reaction and performance on the stand was very disappointing, and it doesn't make sense that he'd respond like that or not have better answers to questions he was obviously going to be asked after supposedly being on bail for 11 months.

Have to say it's disappointing that they now seem to be intentionally setting him up as being the most likely murderer again after doing such a great job with Lewis' testimony and performance.

Panthro

I thought he did alright.
The prosecutor was trying to provoke a response but he was calm and collected.
Roll on tomorrow night's show!

Penn

Panthro wrote: »

I thought he did alright.
The prosecutor was trying to provoke a response but he was calm and collected.
Roll on tomorrow night's show!

He had 11 months and the best he can come up with for why he waited for 8 minutes between the 999 calls was basically "I think I have amnesia about it"

Maybe it's down to the editing and there was loads of questioning before it which caused him to be so flustered, but it's insane on his part that he'd actually use the term amnesia, as opposed to "I panicked" or "It was all just a blur"

I was just worried before tonight that they'd do something to intentionally swing the jury one way so they could reveal it happened the other way, and I think this is it. They're overplaying his reaction and intentionally making him seem poor, particularly compared to the boyfriend.

Kiwi_knock

I presume his weak performance on the stand was intentionally written/acted like that so it wouldn't swing the case too much into his favour. The producers/writers will be following the jury's discussions as they go along so they are tailoring the evidence and witness statements to maintain a balance between guilty and not guilty. There is no hard evidence that he committed the murder so if he delivered an assured performance on the stand it would remove the tension in the jury's deliberations as they would find him not guilty. The jury deliberations will be interesting, as while there have been a couple vocal with their preconceived ideas/judgments, the majority seem to be changing opinion after each testimony.

Yamanoto

Given what's at stake, it's conceivable that you'd become flummoxed & fail to lay out your account cogently under cross examination. I thought his amnesia response was far from satisfactory though.

For anyone enjoying the show, you should check out the eight-part documentary The Staircase, which was screened as part of the BBC's Storyville strand some time back. Absolutely compelling stuff from start to finish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1kYp5DXlJE

Panthro

And we're back!

Kiwi_knock

Hard to see the jury agreeing on anything, impossible for a couple of them to stop their personal experiences clouding their judgment.

D0NNELLY

Watched this late due to the utd game. What's annoying me is three of the jurors have had experience of abuse.
This would have come out at selection and they would have been excused.

Apart from that, with the complete lack of forensic evidence, ex boyfriend was spotted in the area with his phone location turned off, i could not say guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

Panthro

The ex soldier jury member summed it up for me when he said he thinks the husband is guilty of being deluded, but not guilty of murder.
I'd be looking more closely at the other fella.

D0NNELLY

Panthro wrote: »

Its on for 5 nights I think.

Tonight is the finale.

Then starting into The Staircase on YouTube linked to above

Panthro

Find myself agreeing with the ex soldier

Panthro

Well now!

Kiwi_knock

They made it too obvious that it was him in the videos, by overly concentrating on Lewis being intense and aggravated while not showing the bad side of Simon.

siblers

That Danny Mullins lad, when he said he was your man Skinner, he saw him in a back top but when he left the house he was in a blue one, I know he could easily have changed but it would have put serious doubt in my mind as to whether his testimony could be relied upon