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evidenceevidencephysical2024 Criminal TrialSuitcase described by the StateJay told the jury that the evidence would show Boone zipped Torres inside the suitcase to punish him and then left him while she went upstairs to sleep. The court instructed that opening statements were the parties' expectations about the evidence, not evidence themselves.
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Suitcase described by the State

Jay told the jury that the evidence would show Boone zipped Torres inside the suitcase to punish him and then left him while she went upstairs to sleep. The court instructed that opening statements were the parties' expectations about the evidence, not evidence themselves.

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The State presented confinement in the suitcase as intentional punishment rather than defensive necessity, expressly framing this as what it expected the evidence to show.

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2024 Criminal Trial

Day 5