that worn-looking straw hat tossed recently in his closet? Carrying gourds in it like a pilgrim? The second-most bizarre part of Scott’s trial - behind his own testimony - was the gluttonous physical relationship in the courtroom, between the State Attorney Victims Advocate and Mulrenin's sister. They were both giant aging women who presented themselves very neatly and properly, like putting ribbons around a decommissioned Greyhound bus. They looked very similar. except Mulrenin's sister being slightly softer and more feminine, and the State Attorney Victims Advocate looking slightly meaner and more masculine. Sitting two rows behind them in the courtroom, they appeared to be in a lesbian relationship that would have been more appropriate in a darkened movie theater. The Victims Advocate was constantly digging her giant arthritic hooks deep into Mulrenin's sister in all parts of her body, and aggressively kissing her. If Mulrenin's sister had been sobbing or something, I can understand comforting her. But I only ever saw looks of calm, or sour anger on her face. It was as if the Victims Advocate used moments when Mulrenin's sister might have needed some comforting, and every other moment also, to cop a feel in an aggressive way. At the time, it seemed as if Mulrenin's sister reciprocated the bizarre display. But at Mandi's trial, Mulrenin's sister sat with a different Victims Advocate, a young fat guy. And the giant arthritic female Victims Advocate only came in for a grab and peck on the cheek once in a while. Maybe they broke up. In any case, it was so bizarre and perverted, nothing I write here can fillly express it. Mulrenin's sister made an impact statement that his family over 1,000 miles away missed him. What they missed specifically, was getting phone calls from him at the holidays. Mulrenin's family was so proud of their son, they put in the obituary only that "he died suddenly." I am sure the families of little girls he took advantage of, and sold into cocaine and sodomy, will not miss him. It is okay to paint the dead as better than they were, but not for the gratuitous and insincere purpose of aggression in taking the life of a young girl, who gave Mulrenin exactly what he wanted. If you read Love's trial transcript, don’t put 100% faith in it. Half the time I went looking for some exact thing I remembered, it wasn’t there. When Judge Recksiedler asked who the next witness was and they brought in Neisha Cintron, prosecutor Stone said something like "Neisha Cintron, the one who spoke to Mandi Jackson at the end of the night." It matters because Stone was reminding Neisha what he talked to ger about on January 10, 2019, that she would leave out everything that happened earlier in the night and lie that she only met Mandi at the end of the night and got her phone number. I also remembered Michelle Ervin saying of the dog walker who let Love in the building that "he moved out" while the video was playing. That is not in the transcript. I think it was prosecutor Sacco, but maybe also Stone brought up in front of the jury how Jackson was not wearing a jacket when she entered the garage. If that is true which I am not sure it is, then I am certain they said it in front of the jury because there is no other way I would know it. I think it happened near the "(Pause)" in the transcript before Stone asks Love on the stand about the jacket. At Mandi's trial, Jackson Athaide mumbling about which system was seven minutes off, and whether it was all the cameras or just one, is missing from the transcript. At Love’s motion in limine to not allow his recorded jail phone calls, his attorney Nielsen said "But he still has the right to an attorney." That is not in the transcript, and may have been replaced with "All right. Understand, Your Honor." I still don’t understand myself, how Love does not have the right to an attorney when he is in jail and being asked about his case on the phone. You could argue about it, but that is not what Judge Recksiedler does. Judge Recksiedler uses the simplest possible reading of case law when it blocks something the defense wants to admit. She says approximately that she is being conservative, and it is not for the lawyer in the courtroom to argue about, she will only listen to the appeals court. One of the more disappointing moments in Love's trial came at the very end. Love was convicted of Count 1 first degree felony murder, with a mandatory minimum sentence of life without parole. The prosecution already reminded Judge Recksiedler it is a mandatory sentence and she has no discretion. Judge Recksiedler proceeded as follows: IV- 62