The Staircase Aftershow - Chapter 4: A Prosecution Trickery

In Chapter 4: A Prosecution Trickery the Peterson defence team receives a fax (and yes faxes are still a thing) of the prosecution's autopsy report on Elizabeth Ratliff. And surprise surprise the State's pathologist not only determined that the death was not due to natural causes but went on to find the the cause of death was a "homicidal attack".

Not only did the defence team receive the pathology report two weeks before the trial was to begin, and not only was the report released to the media to poison the jury pool, but the prosecution refuses to seek an admissibility ruling on the tainted but damning evidence.

Its trial by ambush and David Rudolph is pissed.

This episode we look at the prosecution's tactics, discuss the rules and strategy for opening statements, and debate gammer - is it banker's boxes or bankers boxes?