Media & Links Only

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No discussion please.. links only

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www.findkelsey.com

www.kelseysarmy.org

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http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/story/409647.html


Link to change of trial date

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EH's myspace page

http://www.postchronicle.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=20&num=85429

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Background info on EH

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,279612,00.html

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Charges filed on June 7th 2007

http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/crim/kansashall60707cmp.html

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EH's alleged Yahoo profile link

http://profiles.yahoo.com/captn_666_howdy

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Link to Kelsey's Myspace Account

http://www.myspace.com/bandbaby2007

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Abduction Timeline

Saturday, June 2, 7:00 p.m.: A 1970's model pickup pulled into the same parking lot aisle where Kelsey parked about one minute earlier.
Kelsey then goes into the Target store, followed by the man in the pickup.

7:10 p.m.: Kelsey leaves Target and puts her packages into her car. That's when police said someone ran towards her. Moments later, Kelsey's car leaves the parking lot.

9:20 p.m.: Kelsey's car is found at Oak Park Mall. Her purse and packages are still inside.

9:30 p.m.: The same man gets into the pickup and leaves the Target lot.

Sunday-Wednesday: Over the past several days, kelsey's family and friends have searched the area around the Target where she was abducted.

Tuesday afternoon: Following a map of Kelsey's cell phone, police started searching an area around Longview Lake.

Wednesday afternoon: Kelsey's body is found in a wooded area near Longview Lake in Grandview.

Wednesday night: Police announce the arrest of Edwin Hall for Kelsey Smith's murder.

Thursday: Edwin Hall is charged with murder and kidnapping.

http://www.myfoxkc.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=3418752&version=4&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1

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Defense says Prosecutors withholding evidence

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/story/479005.html

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By BENITA Y. WILLIAMS
The Kansas City Star

Motion by Edwin Hall's defense lawyers
Prosecution's response to Edwin Hall's defense motion
Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline said attorneys for murder defendant Edwin Hall challenged his handling of the case to divert attention from evidence against their client.

Kline made his argument in a legal brief that a Johnson County judge described last week as “full of sarcasm but not substance.”

District Court Judge Peter Ruddick did not elaborate on his remark, which was made at a hearing last week. The judge declined to comment Monday.

In their response to defense accusations, Kline and his deputy, Stephen Maxwell, cited one state statute and no case law. Instead, they made a fact-based argument that the office has properly released evidence to the defense.

“The state merely points out that the law school adage, ‘If the facts are not on your side, argue the law. … If the law is not on your side, argue the facts. … If neither is on your side, attack the other side.’ The defense is now engaged in the latter.”

Kline’s response also accused Hall’s defense attorneys, Paul Cramm and Carl Cornwell, of trying to influence potential jurors and failing to cooperate with prosecutors to resolve issues over the sharing of evidence.

He also accused Cramm of violating a gag order in the case by commenting on the misfiling of a sealed document. Kline requested sanctions against Cramm, including a written apology to the parents of the victim in the case, Kelsey Smith.

Cramm and Kline, through a spokesman, declined to comment Monday.

Hall, 27, of Olathe, is charged with the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of Smith, 18. She disappeared June 2 from a Target store near 97th Street and Quivira Road in Overland Park. A few days later, her body was found near Longview Lake in south Jackson County.

Last month, Cramm and Cornwell filed a motion seeking sanctions against Kline’s office, alleging it withheld evidence favorable to Hall.

Part of that evidence, the defense said, involved Federal Bureau of Investigation reports about a possible suspect identified by a Grandview police employee and raw video from Target and nearby Oak Park Mall just after Smith disappeared.

Kline and Maxwell filed their response March 7. Attached e-mail messages show that much of the dispute involves whether prosecutors and police provided Hall’s attorneys with raw security video, in a form the defense can use, from the Target store.

The videotape that the public has seen of Smith leaving the store shows a man pushing Smith into her car. That video was spliced from various camera angles, the defense contends. The raw video initially viewed by Overland Park police showed Smith driving away undisturbed, defense attorneys say.

Kline’s response said, however, that the blurry abduction scene showed up when police later viewed the same video on different equipment.

Both the defense and prosecution documents were filed under seal, but the defense motion remained in the public portion of the court record and drew media attention before being closed.

In his motion, Kline’s office implied that the document was leaked.





http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/story/535504.html

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On Monday, however, Johnson County Court Administrator Michael McLain said the mishandling of the sealed document was “an oversight on the part of the clerk’s office.”

On Friday, Ruddick ordered the documents from both sides unsealed, which happened Monday.

Also Friday, the judge told Kline and Maxwell that they needed to do better in making sure all evidence is disclosed to the defense.

However, Kline and Maxwell argued that they have attempted to give all evidence to Hall’s attorneys, including 6,964 pages of documents, 17 VHS tapes, 97 CDs, 13 DVDs and one hard drive.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/story/535504.html