Harlow thows a Perry Mason clusterfuck
While we Kocissphere Bloggers ponder the age old question ...
As we watched (figuratively) a clueless defendants defense strategy implode on the stand!
Surely now Harlow Cuadra well be every defense lawyers example of why you Never Ever put a guilty,confused and just plain idiotic defendant on the Stand in his own defense.
In honor of this slack-jawed display of Foolish self-immolation before a jury of his peers, I offer Harlow Cuadras testimony on the 11th day of his trial.
With appropriate visual aids.
"...Cuadra told the Luzerne County jury that he was inside Kocis' home in Dallas Township on Jan. 24, 2007, when they heard a loud, rapid knock on the door.
"Bryan gets up and goes up to the door; the minute he turns that knob, Joseph comes in," a sobbing Cuadra told the jury. "They fight a little at the door, I'm yelling, 'Joseph, what are you doing.'
"Joseph looks at me, and knocks Bryan in the face. Bryan was wearing one of those workout suits, all black, no socks, and Joseph grabs Bryan and throws him in the couch and starts punching he hell out of him.," Cuadra said.
Cuadra said he jumped on Kerekes' back in an attempt to stop the assault.
"Joseph reaches in his pocket and pulls out a knife and slashed Bryan's throat. I yelled, "Joe, what are you doing, he said to get the (expletive) out."
Cuadra said he was scared for his life and the life of Kerekes. They fled to South Beach, Fla., where they stayed in a motel for more than a month. They returned to their Virginia Beach, Va., home the day before Easter in 2007.
Cuadra said he understood that he was a "person of interest" in the case and wanted to talk to Pennyslvania investigators.
"Joseph wouldn't let me," Cuadra said. "I can't even go to the store to buy toilet paper without him.""
meanwhile the Citizens Voice reporter is 
and will post when he recovers his composure.
The Citizens' Voice is reporting that Harlow Cuadra went to Bryan Kocis' Dallas Township home on Jan. 24, 2007, thinking he would shoot pornography, Cuadra testified today in his capital homicide trial.
His partner, Joseph Kerekes, dropped him off around 7 p.m. that night, Cuadra said, and then left. Cuadra was at Kocis' Midland Drive home for about 20 minutes that evening, laughing and talking with Kocis, Cuadra said, when a "rapid knock" came at the front door.
Kerekes stormed through the door and began to fight with Kocis, before pulling out a small knife and slashing Kocis' throat, Cuadra testified.
"I'm shouting at Joe 'What are you doing? What are you doing?'" Cuadra said. "He pushed me down."
Scared, Cuadra said he ran and hid in the back seat of the rental car Kerekes had driven, as Kerekes did "something" inside the house.
Cuadra has testified for about four hours today, saying he never knew or heard of a plan to kill Kocis. Cuadra could face the death penalty if found guilty of first-degree homicide in Kocis' Jan. 2007 death.
Cuadra said he wanted to tell police his story, but Kerekes was very controlling.
“People can say ‘Harlow, do this’ or ‘Harlow do that,’ but they don’t know," Cuadra said. "They’re not Harlow. They’re not with Joseph. Individual valor doesn’t matter when you’re with Joseph in a little room.”
Meanwhile Joseph D'Andrea surveys exactly what Harlow Cuadra hath wrought with his scintillating testimony this afternoon...
While he considers his next move... 
Oh that is priceless:)
ReplyDeleteHarlow had a bad day I would say. Things did not go well at verdict did they?
ReplyDeleteI think the pictures of him shown in court were a major image problem. In court he looked like a delicate and soft child, like a very young kid in need of a haircut sitting there.
Then those pictures, like the one from Vegas, with that sinister look while clinging onto Sean, with middle finger telling the rest of us where to go.
Two (really three) of the four pictures he sent to Bryan were not the kind you would ever want your mother to see. And to have her see them in court with the world watching yet.
The contrast was like two different people. Not just the attitude shown in the photos, but Harlow did not even look like the same person sitting there from the one on the big screen giving the jury the middle finger, or the others looking like a gay burlesque dancer in bikinis. Like viewing porn with your mother present, rough stuff!
The jury will not mention the pictures as having much influence on their verdict, in fact I doubt they will ever mention they even saw those pictures at all.
Rough even after seeing a burned house, burned sofa, and even a burned body. Those HRC pictures had a more twisted aura when viewed following the fire evidence. What a mark to have left in the world.
I could almost buy Cuadra feeling "intimidated" as he claimed from the witness stand. However, what blows that image is Cuadra's admission that after Kerekes slices Kocis' throat, nearly beheading him, and stabs about Kocis' torso, Cuadra flees to the Nissan Xterra, cell phone in his hand/pocket. Once in the safety of the Xterra, does Cuadra call 911 to report Kocis' murder? No. He cowers and then goes on to cower on the flight by car back into Virginia; several days Cuadra cowers in the bordello; cowers while watching the police raid of the bordello; cowers on the flight by car to Florida; all the while having a cell phone in his pocket, not to mention overhearing at least one attempt by detectives to question Kerekes regarding the Kocis murder and still makes no effort to contact the police.
ReplyDeleteConsidering the amount of the pilfered goods taken from Kocis' home, it is quite clear that Cuadra helped remove those items from Kocis' home after he participated in murdering the victim.
The fable Cuadra told in court does not line up with the BBT's or CCT's, which Elm continues to insist he nothing but a joke, Kerekes and Cuadra playing along because they knew they were being taped. They turned out to have laughed themselves into murder convictions.
I still wonder if Joe helped load up the car with goods, or really did stay back at the hotel?
ReplyDeleteHarlow could have done it all, or had help from Joe at the scene. It matter not at all. Harlow is "going down for this" his major role in murder. It might have been you Rob who said that before the trial. You get the DP for posing as a hot potential model, setting a deadly trip for the victim, and trying to profit from the death. It was mean and cruel, and much worse then getting a sleepy time needle injection. And much worse then life in the slammer reading books and magazines.
So it does not matter, except it is the one little detail we do not know for sure about Joe's role..
btw, Elm is not really continuing from what I saw. He is laying low. Like really low.
Quicky--
ReplyDeleteMakes you wonder does it not?
Rob said...
ReplyDeleteQuicky--
Makes you wonder does it not?
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he's deflated Rob!