TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Wednesday, October 08, 2003

From WASHINGTON TIMES October 6 2003:

Prince William County prosecutors portray Mr. Muhammad, an Army veteran of the first Gulf war, as the domineering captain and "moving spirit" of a "killing team" that included him and his brainwashed young acolyte. . . .

[I]t now is clear that each defendant will blame the other. . . .

The prosecution theories in each trial match the defense theories in the other. . . .

Prince William County prosecutors portray Mr. Muhammad as a canny puppeteer who taught his young follower sniper skills, and directed his crimes down to ordering Mr. Malvo when to fire.

Fairfax County prosecutors offer a contradictory version — a kind of "Malvo the magnificent" who needed no coaching to become the monster willing to kill children. . .

Maryland prison guard Cpl. Wayne Davis testified . . . "He said his father would give him 'the go,' whatever that means" . . .

The Malvo defense team . . . enters this month's final pretrial maneuvering positioning its client as an impressionable child controlled by a domineering father figure. . . .

The Malvo legal team, told reporters they finally are seeing "the real Lee Malvo," chatty and smiling . . . after he shed his master's preaching about a race war.

"He was so programmed. ... We finally got him out of Muhammad's clutches," Mr. Arif said then.

[Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney Paul E.]Ebert, who is prosecuting Mr. Muhammad . . . says the theory Mr. Muhammad was something of a Svengali to Mr. Malvo is compelling. "I'm sure that Malvo didn't have much influence over Muhammad."

Mr. Ebert tells The Times his case is strong but purely circumstantial, with no eyewitness or admissions.

"We don't have any eyewitnesses. We have to prove that circumstantially. Malvo has claimed to be the triggerman in most cases. Even though he actually pulled the trigger, we think, we hope, we'll be able to show to the court's satisfaction that they both participated as principals in the first degree," Mr. Ebert says. . . .

"Anyone on the panel who has paid too much attention to the Prince William trial will probably not make it on the jury anyway," says Mr. [Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney Robert F.] Horan. . . .

Both defenses seek, without success so far, to force prosecutors to show their hands on case details, and to explain how each witness and bit of evidence relates to their cases. But even when they win an order for more specifics, they get little. . . .

Evidence . . . includes the stolen Bushmaster .223-caliber rifle used in the killings, and the nearly identical rifle Mr. Muhammad bought in 1999 and sold in 2000 when he was under a domestic restraining order. Both came from Bull's Eye Shooter Supply in Tacoma, Wash.

Other evidence includes a Global Positioning System unit that pinpoints locations by satellite, a laptop computer containing maps of shooting sites, fragments of bullets and shells, and unexplained "suspected fecal matter" seized from their dilapidated Chevrolet Caprice . . .

Defense attorneys have been objecting both to the vagueness of listing DNA samples by code numbers and to techniques for comparing them with saliva samples from the two prisoners.

UPI August 23, 2003

Washington sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad has been administered an electric shock for refusing a medical test.

Muhammad was shocked with a stun belt Friday by a Prince William County sheriff's deputy after the sniper suspect refused to participate in medical tests at a local hospital, his attorneys told the Washington Post.

Muhammad was to undergo a court-ordered MRI and an electroencephalogram.

TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS: this case has all the hallmarks of intergenerational mind control and manufactured terror in the DC area as the Congress was debated the Iraq war resolution. Another good background piece is Jim Rarey's Usually Reliable Sources?.

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