9:07am- Arrived in court.  Big meeting going on between AR, SB, Jeff, Mark and Song.  They are in a huddle and whispering intently.  Veronica comes into the courtroom and joins the huddle.  

When I came in Bob Thompson was in the hall with a witness later identified to me as a "cousin of Sutana's."  

Three women sitting behind me.  Three younger looking guys to the side.  Gomes in court wandering around.  See James but not Roger.

9:10am- Teams no longer in a huddle.  Veronica and AR chatting and smiling.

9:11am- Roger comes in.  His arms are empty so he must have been here earlier and left for a minute.

9:30am- Roger tells Judge Mertel he wants a hearing about Sebastian's "interference" with the investigation on July 16th.  (I'm not sure what this is about)

9:35am- Jury files in.  Roger starts re-direct of Gomes.  Still talking about Gomes talking to AR about contacting his family.  Lots of questions are objected to and sustained as "asked and answered." (I feel like I'm watching a re-run)  Roger asks Gomes about what SB and AR were doing instead of contacting his family.  Gomes said they rented a VCR and some movies from a downtown Bellevue Blockbuster Video.  And they also went to Barnes and Nobel and read magazines.

9:55am- Roger ends his questioning.  Song begins her cross-examination of Gomes.  She is borderline livid about Gomes testifying that they had "no success" contacting SB at the forwarding address he left with the Bellevue Police Department.  She says, "You guys didn't camp out there and wait for him did you?"  "No," says Gomes.  

Gomes previously testified that AR made "no effort" to contact the BPD from the time of the murders to the time he left for Canada.  Song is now going to detail the time they spent WITH the BPD.  She has a Power Point slide and everything:

Time AR & SB spent with the BPD:

July 13 - 2am to 11am &
             4pm - 5pm
July 14 - 3:10pm to 7:44pm

Then they were off to Canada.

Her point is that they were with the BPD so much, it would have seemed odd if he had been calling up asking how the investigation is going, when he was just with them.

10:30am - Break.  Jeff and Song up in the front of the room going over documents.  Mark and Veronica chatting at their table.  Roger and Gomes chatting about bicycling.  Roger says if he rides on trails then he has to deal with hostile joggers... and if he rides on the street he has to deal with hostile autos... can't win!

10:55am - Jury files back in.  Song continues her cross of Gomes.  

Gomes had testified to two things before that Song is about to go into in great detail.  How great?  It will take most of the rest of the day.  

The first thing he testified to that Song has a problem with is that SB & AR gave "tremendous detail without prompting" about their alibi.  This is suspicious to the police, like they were setting up their alibi in advance.

Song goes over line after line of SB & AR's statements, "Would you say that answer gave 'tremendous detail without prompting?'"  Most of these Gomes says "no" to.  He explains that it was the WHOLE thing taken into context that made it "great detail."  This sort of thing literally goes on for two hours.

At one point Song wants Gomes to "glance through" some 20-odd pages of interview to confirm that SB were giving PROMPTED answers to questions, not unprompted.  Gomes said he would not glance through, he might miss something.  So he spent 10 minutes reading through the document while everyone sat around doing nothing (well, me, I was writing my diary).

The other part that Gomes testified to and Song rips apart is that SB & AR didn't give ENOUGH detail about what they did the week before the killings.  Once again, we go through every interview, every question, and Gomes is asked, "Is this a question you think they didn't give enough detail on?"

12:08pm- Lunch break.  Judge tells everyone to be back by 1:40.

2:00pm- Judge enters.  Jury enters.  Song resumes her cross examination of Gomes.  She mentions a question about what SB and AR did the Monday before the murders (the murders were on a Tuesday).  They said they went to Vancouver, Canada so Sebastian could get his bank book and take some money out of his bank.  Then they came back.  

Gomes said this statement wasn't detailed enough. He wanted times, he wanted the make of the car, how long it took, where they stopped to eat, etc.  

Song asks,  "Did you ask them those questions?"

Gomes, "No."

Song, "If they had offered up that information, wouldn't you have considered that an unprompted answer with tremendous detail?"  (slam)

Gomes, "No."

I kept waiting for her to ask him if any of the answers SB and AR gave were "just right" as opposed to too detailed or not detailed enough.

2:45pm - Song finishes her cross.  Marc starts his cross of Gomes.  He asks about a police academy class every police officer has to take to become a cop.  It's about how to interview/interrogate someone.  Mark asks Gomes if they teach in those classes that the officer is to get as much detail as possible.  Gomes says "yes."

3pm - Break and I left for the day.