Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

Tannenbaum finally finished his monotonous opening statement, and he failed miserably. If they took a jury vote right now, I believe they would convict, based on hearing Pappas and then Tannenbaum. 

Pappas won that round by a mile. Everybody was just waiting for Tannenbaum to finish, bored silly by his dull drone. The judge kept hounding him over and over, "You about done?" The ONLY point that Tannenbaum made that was of ANY value to Oswald concerned the fingerprint evidence. He disclosed that the Dallas Police first said that there were "no identifiable prints", and even on November 23, Chief Curry said that. He said that Lt. Day was supposed to take photos before lifting the prints from the rifle but didn't. And although he reported finding no fingerprints, Lt. Day claimed to find a palm print but refused to sign an affidavit to that effect. The palm print wasn't found, officially, until after Oswald was dead, and Tannenbaum said that FBI agents visited the funeral home where Oswald was laid out, implying that they got the palm print off his dead body, but never saying so directly. 

And this addressing of the fingerprint/palmprint was something that Tannenbaum just squeezed in between his rants about the Single Bullet Theory. He actually finished by citing the dictabelt evidence from the HSCA. God-damn idiot. Did anyone give a shit about that back in 1979? Did in anyone in law enforcement at any level: federal, state, or local, take any action because of it? No. Nobody did a thing. And he thinks that is going to impress a jury in 2017?

Undoubtedly, so far, the score is, undoubtedly, Pappas 1, Tannenbaum 0.  Tannebaum was a total, utter failure. He was a constant irritant to the jury. Everything about him was annoying. Everyone was just waiting for him to shut the fuck up. He didn't even show any interest in Oswald. You got no impression that he didn't care about Oswald,  that he felt nothing for Oswald. Well, if he doesn't feel for Oswald, why should the jury?

This is going much worse than I expected. And if it continues this way, I won't be the least bit surprised if there is a conviction. 

Tannenbaum is completely and totally useless. They never should have gotten him. He never should have been allowed to defend Oswald. But, was that part of the plan all along? To make sure that Oswald had lousy lawyers?

I was under the impression, going in, that Larry Schnapf and Bill Simpich were going to be the main defense lawyers, and Tannenbaum was just going to be minimally involved. But, so far, it has been all Tannebaum, and it's 2:15. Right now, the live-streaming has stopped because they are showing a film, and I think it involves the Parkland doctors talking about what they saw. Stupid, stupid, stupid. That is useless to the defense of Oswald!

Even if you make a convincing case for multiple shooters, so the hell what? Oswald could still have been one of them, couldn't he? He could still have been on the 6th floor shooting at Kennedy while someone else shot from the Grassy Knoll? Couldn't he? So, how does it help Oswald and defend him to be doing this? It doesn't. 

This is just a 2 day trial. It's not like a real trial, which is open-ended. This day is going to be over in less than 3 hours, and right now the defense is wasting an hour and a half showing a movie.  For some reason, it can't be live-streamed, so they told us to come back at 3:30. And, I'm sure we are not missing anything important. It's not anything that is going to help Oswald.

Shit. This is worse, far worse, than even my worst case scenario. Dumb plucks.