After months of Auntie Bev, watching a judge do her job with professionalism is like a cool drink of water on a hot day.
@Jacksonsperfectpirouette
2 ай бұрын
I am watching this without a background of the case. However, I was married to covert narcissist and share 4 children together. I also live in Florida and currently going through family court… my spidey senses woke up when her attorney with his amazing voice started talking! Thank you Melanie for covering this with compassion and grace. Peace and Love
@Jacksonsperfectpirouette
2 ай бұрын
The true character will be shown when the abuser is told “no”! It has to be on their terms or their time or you will pay… maybe not immediately but it will be saved. One of the best statements about coercive controlling people is He/She is an ego maniac with an inferiority complex!
@melaniedavenport4869
2 ай бұрын
Why do I feel like this case goes deeper than it first appears.
@kardiojunkee
2 ай бұрын
Am a little behind… hi Melanie😃, glad you are covering this trial!!
@4Mr.Crowley2
2 ай бұрын
Also the daughter’s comments about the fact that her father “never” left Ashley’s side is another sign to me of an extremely controlling creep that was 30 years older than the young pretty ballerina he married - nine months after his former wife died and without even telling his own daughter.
@Nurseshyla
2 ай бұрын
I am a survivor of DV , I am still helping my adult children make sense of me staying so long . I was afraid and never argued with him to keep the peace , never even stuck up for myself ...I have been rebuilding myself everyday, I take this very seriously . Keeping an open mind here
@AMYV3
2 ай бұрын
After leaving my ex. My ten year old daughter, his daughter too. Didn’t want anyone to show any attention towards me lol. She was even kinda like that with her own father. Lol We’d be in our own bedrooms and if her dad even tried to kiss me she had this weird notion that this may be happening and she’d just show up by the door standing there with such a look of “get your hands off MY mom” 🤣🤣🤣. So no ain’t no chance my daughter would want any man near me. It’s actually been 7 years and I still believe my daughter needs all of me. Since the age of 15 I’ve always been in a relationship so I’ll be just fine Until my daughter and I both feel I’m ready to date. It’s a long story. But she went through so much when we split .. ran from him for two years from one domestic abuse shelter to another, trial etc. makes it worse was they were best friends so close prior so. She needed me. So trust me his daughter would have disliked anyone dating his dad after her mothers death especially if her dad cared more about being with Ashley then her and it was obvious he would leave his daughter at home in a second if he wanted to follow Ashley around. And She knew this.
@JuliefromOz
2 ай бұрын
My daughter suffered severe Hyperemesis gravidarum (Also called: HG) Throughout all 3 of her pregnancies. She has a wonderful, supportive husband who was working incredibly hard in their building business. She was so ill we moved her back home for the first 2 pregnancies so we could take care of her. In the 3rd pregnancy I would stay with her in her own home & look after the kids until her husband got home. I never once thought anything we did was unusual, as her Mum I wanted to help & I wanted to look after her.
@Classic-Ov3rThinker
2 ай бұрын
@@JuliefromOz you are a great mum! HG is horrendous, my mum didn’t move in but would come around every morning, take me to the docs for 1-2ltrs IV fluids (I couldn’t keep anything down, not even water), my doc knew my mental health would not survive 8mths in hospital so gave me fluids in his rooms. Then mum would either take me back to her house for an hour or two or straight home depending on how bad I was! Did your daughter constantly get told to ‘just have a cracker and you’ll be fine’ 🤯.
@LostAndSortaHighVibes
2 ай бұрын
I would have to be hospitalized weekly with HG. My niece literally tore a hole in her LUNG with HG from the force of constantly being sick. Morning Sickness is no joke for some of us, and we absolutely need outside help. Even with a good husband that takes care of the kids. It also can disable women or even kill them after birth from the dental issues it causes!!
@Classic-Ov3rThinker
2 ай бұрын
@@LostAndSortaHighVibes yes I was vomiting blood too 😞. Just another female thing that men and most women don’t understand 😢
@UnLocked-85
2 ай бұрын
right! so many more types of abuse. emotional abuse is sometimes far worse than physical abuse
@whoever6458
2 ай бұрын
I totally agree! It's pretty clear cut that you are definitely allowed to defend yourself physically if someone attacks you physically. It's harder to decide if that's the right thing to do when it's emotion abuse. I'd always rather have physical abuse but there's also an aspect to it that is also necessarily emotional when it comes from someone you love.
@EVOLMAI
2 ай бұрын
The memory of scars remains = Mental Abuse.. 💫🙏🏽😔🙏🏽💫
@marianacronje4099
2 ай бұрын
Melanie, following you from South Africa. Your heart is in the right place. ❤
@meln4214
2 ай бұрын
Howzit Mariana 🇿🇦
@nancyrolfe3033
2 ай бұрын
Sorry I missed your live, Melanie! Glad to be watching with the nicest and classiest people in chat and the classiest, kindest lawyer leading the charge! Glad I found this channel ❤
@richmartin4823
2 ай бұрын
As someone who was married to a narcissist that used the courts to have me removed from our home and kept from my children, I am skeptical of anyone saying they are abused. I was blindsided because I caught my ex cheating and the next day I had a restraining order served on me because her uncle was a Police Officer and helped her get it. I never abused her. If anyone was being abused it was me. I was emotionally abused by a narcissist for 9 years. Blamed when she did something wrong and always had it turned around on me. I was gaslight into arguments and then forced to apologize. I am not saying she wasn't abused but I am skeptical after being falsely accused.
@SkyValleri-m3i
2 ай бұрын
I wish I had seen your coverage earlier today before I watched by myself. I’ll be tuning in tomorrow! 😁
@jessicafreitag5111
2 ай бұрын
She DECIDED she was too sick with morning sickness!?! 😠 I’m 38 weeks pregnant right now and I don’t know if it’s hormones making me this irritated or if this lady is actually irritating.
@4Mr.Crowley2
2 ай бұрын
She is obnoxious and very condescending. It’s a mistake as many women experience serious morning sickness, and Kate Middleton (for just one example) spent weeks in the hospital when she was pregnant as her morning sickness became dangerously severe (she was severely dehydrated and wasn’t ingesting enough nourishment).
@mistydwins
2 ай бұрын
Wow, day 1, and this judge is so much more professional than Auntie Bev!!! Haven't heard any I'll allow it and he's also questioning the witness about being approached during break and asking the jury if anyone discussed anything about the case.
@alisamclellan2779
2 ай бұрын
No knowing this case at all, and living in Australia 🇦🇺. Just listening to the first minutes of the defence, I picked the signs of a DV abuser, when her lawyer said she was moving. And he was going too. However he was going to live separately. There you have it!!! The mother took the granddaughter to the park, to get her away from him. Oh my god! This poor girl! To all the sceptics, there is a behaviour these bullies all have, they have a narcissistic behaviour, which may be different in many forms, but the same in their intentions. They are cruel and manipulative they change the story to make them come out the victim.
@ExtraordinaryMachine333
2 ай бұрын
Going back to watch the trial bits I missed and Eva's response is chilling to me. The look on her face when Taylor is asking her about the holes in the house and he asks if she knows how they got there. "YES" she says emphatically, like she wants to say more about the violence. The prosecution acting like he was never abusive and trying to cover the evidence of that up is a mistake. I believe he abused her, and the prosecution dancing around it makes them seem crooked. They should be focusing on that day and not trying to canonize Doug Benefield as a saint. Also, calling him slender and then showing his body builder picture? WTF...he was slender like Arnold Schwarzeneger was slender. To paraphrase The Princess Bride, "You're on The Brute Squad? You ARE the Brute Squad"
@amykleinpeter5874
2 ай бұрын
My daughters lost their father when they were tweens. My heart hurts for the daughter and she is so stressed up there. I hate this for her regardless of the rest of the case or if Ashley is innocent or guilty.
@holliewood55
2 ай бұрын
Both of his daughters!! That poor baby out on the street corner holding a sign is gross! Also, it's very suspect to me that she was supposedly so scared of this man yet she and her daughter were moving back in with him the day she killed him. I can't get past that part. The older daughter, Eva, has a really good head on her shoulder. I can't imagine losing both my parents within such a short period of time at such a young age. 😢 Heartbreaking 💔
@holliewood55
2 ай бұрын
@lhr8833 This!! Amen! I feel so bad for both of his daughters.
@jossgirl
2 ай бұрын
Can you imagine if questions from the jury were allowed in the Karen Read trial? Oh my
@AlinaSween
2 ай бұрын
I wish! We’d probably still be in court right now.
@jossgirl
2 ай бұрын
@@AlinaSween haha true!
@KS-eg6mb
2 ай бұрын
Thank you Melanie, you're the best!!
@gamigirlHeatherB
2 ай бұрын
So far I like this judge
@Becca-r6c
2 ай бұрын
I’m glad you are covering a new trial I need more court thank you I love to watch your coverage ❤
@mollymollie6048
2 ай бұрын
How does this female prosecutor live with herself? She is glossing over morning sickness (I had a boss who came to work most days, but you’d hear her throwing up in her trash can every 10 minutes or so through the entirety of both pregnancies.) Poisoning her with heavy metals (said with the tone of an eye roll,) is pretty easy to do to someone, and it’s slow. Imo, she moved to Bradenton probably cause he was already so abusive, she was frightened for herself and her child! Maybe she was or wasn’t particularly sick, but that was a way she could get hundreds of miles away without risking her life. I understand the prosecutor has a job to do, it’s a difficult job, and I support the role of the prosecutor (idk if Ashley is guilty or not,) but this was so horribly worded as being so demeaning to females, pregnant women, minimizes DV in a horrible way…there were many other ways she could have made her argument, imo, without being, quite frankly sexist and uninformed about domestic violence…I hope she educates herself when she prosecutes someone for committing DV. If I were a female on the jury, she would have lost me already.
@Classic-Ov3rThinker
2 ай бұрын
I’m loving this defence lawyer! And the judge is a breath of fresh air compared to Aunt Bev 🙌
@Freeze_Frame_Pan_Out
2 ай бұрын
This will be interesting. I'm a law geek/nerd not a lawyer but I love learning. When I go to a virtual trial, I analyze everyone's body language and words, and of course, evidence matters too. :) Thanks Melanie. I'm learning a lot from you. I also enjoy when you share your work and experience in civil lawsuits. 🎉❤🎉
@KSCSLR
2 ай бұрын
I'm a little later, watching after the fact and new to this channel, but i need to know more about the rage crochet group! Is knitting allowed? I do both.
@katycorcoran4928
2 ай бұрын
Best place to watch. Thanks for covering this trial!
@Becca-r6c
2 ай бұрын
“It” made me so mad when it was Chloe the dog
@lindaf-Loved1st
2 ай бұрын
Wow what a breath of fresh air this court and the actors are after 9 weeks of Read Case.
@SusanWeekly-ji1bc
2 ай бұрын
Replay crew!!!! Thank you Melanie!! 🩷🔸🩷🔸🩷🔸🩷
@Empresstya
2 ай бұрын
The being nice to someone who abuses you, is survival. Especially once kids are involved. The prosecutor will have anyone who has survived DV offside. Hoping there is true understanding within this jury of how the control works
@lyndatalviste4465
2 ай бұрын
Love you Melanie!
@TaliaSC
2 ай бұрын
Rewatch crew for this portion of the trial. I’m only on the prosecutors opening statements, and I already strongly dislike the prosecution. Ashley ‘decided’ she was too sick? No, ma’am. As a mother of 4, and a labor nurse, most of us don’t decide to be sick. We’d like anything BUT the sickness. Ugh her portrayal of the defendant is gross.
@Classic-Ov3rThinker
2 ай бұрын
🤬She decides she’s too sick - TRIGGER WARNING for anyone who has suffered from hyperemisis gravadium. I’m FURIOUS, who decides to be sick when pregnant!! Sorry I can’t stand this lady (I’m normally a tolerant person)! First it was this child then that condescending remark about morning sickness or worse - in my case I stopped weighing myself as it was too depressing when I was down to 38kg (approx 84pounds) at 4mths pregnant!! I needed my mum to look after me plus the hospital plus daily IV - I DID NOT CHOSE THAT! I was still vomiting in labour - the whole 8mths (2 kids, both premmie). I always wanted 4 kids but was warned I would not survive a 3rd pregnancy! My husband had a vasectomy at 30yo as soon as our 2nd was born. The doc didn’t want to do it because he was so young so the obgyn wrote a letter saying I will NOT survive another pregnancy. Sorry for the rant but that was very upsetting.
@LovetheLed
2 ай бұрын
The prosecutor is ABRASIVE and a total B
@Freeze_Frame_Pan_Out
2 ай бұрын
I love being a Virtual Juror! I haven't seen the Pre-trial. I'll watch that later. ❤🎉❤
@fabshelleyg
2 ай бұрын
Melanie covered it very well
@Freeze_Frame_Pan_Out
2 ай бұрын
@@fabshelleyg :)
@libwool2580
2 ай бұрын
I’m so glad that child will never have to watch them fight
@mistydwins
2 ай бұрын
Oh, how I love you, Mel! I love how you care for your peeps. IMO, it seems very clear how he was able to convince people of things like giving him money and convincing a 24 yr old to marry him in 13 days!! I'm excited to hear the rest of this as I'm sure many others I watched series on this that are very one side so it's easy to think she's bad, she's a good digger and she is this and that!
@HannahNeedstoYell
2 ай бұрын
This prosecutor is acting like a defense attorney for Doug, not prosecuting Ashley. Just like Lally with the KR case, acting like a defense attorney for Proctor and the Alberts. Not a good start.
@cyndilagasse991
2 ай бұрын
state never presents evidence showing that she was leading him on into thinking they were reconciling
@Freeze_Frame_Pan_Out
2 ай бұрын
“Only injury” I guess this lawyer doesn't know about psychological and emotional *buse
@Freeze_Frame_Pan_Out
2 ай бұрын
You don't need to announce your departure 😂 ❤
@melaniedavenport4869
2 ай бұрын
There are a lot of ways to abuse someone without laying a finger on them.
@pattiwassman8703
2 ай бұрын
I love love love this defense attorney
@ChristinaCooper-uc5tr
2 ай бұрын
My take on Ashley and an older man : thought he could help her with both financial stability and fulfilling her dancer dreams. 24 yrs still naive as to character
@kitcarsoncarson615
2 ай бұрын
I wish my mom had done what this woman did even though my parents are both gone now, we kids are still left here to contend with the damage the abuse, physical and emotional, caused. My father was military and I saw every single one of my friends with abusive fathers or mothers. One of my friend's mothers, while we were stationed in Germany, beat her children with a dog's leash. I was sent down to babysit even though I was the same age as the oldest girl. I was sickened to my stomach at the age of 9 to be there. They sat in their bedroom, all three of them, afraid to come into the living room and speak with me. I was also afraid. We still feel the damage of the abuse now in our 70's. I didn't have kids because of this, but my siblings did and they too abused. Actually, they are still abusing today. I've lost one nephew to drug overdose. All the others, 8, won't come around me because they too won't recognize domestic abuse having been in their family. The circle continues going around.
@AttorneyMelanieLittle
2 ай бұрын
@@kitcarsoncarson615 I am so sorry for what you went through and continue to go through. Sending 1000 hugs 💔
@BlestinTexas24
2 ай бұрын
"Louder for the people in the back." LOL You go girl! Love from Texas!
@AttorneyMelanieLittle
2 ай бұрын
Hi Jay!
@TammyMacMac
2 ай бұрын
Dont know anything about this case pre-trial, so glad I'm coming in with no bias and can base it on the evidence presented.
@PamelaCampbell-zy4vj
2 ай бұрын
Ashley looks terrified!!
@DonnaJo3452
2 ай бұрын
She is a grown up, strong woman. I think she is faking it.
@Classic-Ov3rThinker
2 ай бұрын
OMG she gets worse! So DV is only physical now 🤯. I don’t know if I can continue to watch her! I can’t believe this is coming out of a woman’s mouth! Has she not heard of emotional abuse, coercive control…. 🤯
@LovetheLed
2 ай бұрын
I VERY MUCH dislike the prosecutor
@LovetheLed
2 ай бұрын
And hitting the wall is a threat, just like firing a gun into the ceiling is a threat
@Classic-Ov3rThinker
2 ай бұрын
@@LovetheLed she made me soooo angry! I would expect that language from an ignorant man not a woman!
@In-The-Locks
2 ай бұрын
QQQ ?? not sure who’s idea this, but Ashley’s Mom and Ashley’ 6 yr old daughter are outside court holding signs saying free my mom
@In-The-Locks
2 ай бұрын
@@lhr8833 you should see her wounded hurt but stoic facial expressions. Not sure if it’s her mom or grandmother telling her to do this. How much can a 6 yr old know?
@dee-deelove9310
2 ай бұрын
I don’t feel good about it, putting your child in that position at 6 years of age seems very manipulative and is akin to child abuse in my opinion….. I have come into this trial with very little knowledge on it and am watching for evidence either way but having her daughter out there like that makes me wonder about her character
@timelymanner-nz
2 ай бұрын
A trial where *I'll allow it* is absent and *overruled* is used...yes!
@25yrsotj
2 ай бұрын
⚠️🚨There’s NO need to announce you’re departure No one is holding you here ! Nasty comments made towards anyone will be deleted and you will be blocked ! Final notice 🚨⚠️
@Zyddy50
2 ай бұрын
This trial will be extremely interesting for me, as I usually am biased against prosecutors. However, I know personally thar some women do just want the father of their child out of the picture. In my case, my ex wanted to raise our child along with her step sister with her new husband. She tried to keep me away when our daughter was a toddler, and told me that reason. When that didn't work, she waited until our daughter was 12, and... well, she ended up getting her way. Now my daughter calls me a bad father after I've had to fight her whole life just to see her. So yeah, this story hits home for me in a big way.
@Zyddy50
2 ай бұрын
On the other hand, if the father was a POS, then I hope that the jury sees that.
@kiwichicki
2 ай бұрын
So sorry to hear that. She will see the truth one day when she's older. I do believe it is harder for Men to be heard. And when it's the Man who is the victim, people just don't want to hear it.
@Zyddy50
2 ай бұрын
@kiwichicki Thank You for the kind words. Truly. Everyone that I've spoken to about this has basically told me the same, and that all I can do is wait for her to come around. My daughter will turn 16 in a few months. I've missed so much of her life... I can't describe how difficult waiting is.
@Becca-r6c
2 ай бұрын
I had Hyperemesis gravidarum it’s no joke I was suicidal I needed my mom and sister😢
@emileeleewolfe4192
2 ай бұрын
I honestly thought this man's voice was pre-recorded or AI by the absolute perfection of it.
@jackiebga
2 ай бұрын
I haven’t watched yet, but I think I can with you all. This is mildly triggering for me and another site had comments calling her “gold-digger,” “spoiled”, etc. I just couldn’t.
@Classic-Ov3rThinker
2 ай бұрын
🩷
@kristyreynoldsapaintersdau9016
2 ай бұрын
Man I had one of the same encounters with my husband when I was trying to get him out of the house. He pushed and shoved me. The good part was he had some of his friends there to stop him.
@TheDianeBrewer
2 ай бұрын
I don’t know that a I agree he said “you married the wrong Benefield” from I heard of the conversation.
@kathrynodonnell8342
2 ай бұрын
Wow Mel I'm watching you on my iPad for the 1st time~ You look Gorgeous!
@leona159
2 ай бұрын
Good day, My mother saved my life when I had my son, she is my hero! How dare you?!
@Khealey84
2 ай бұрын
Gosh my heart goes out to Eva 😢
@LostAndSortaHighVibes
2 ай бұрын
As someone who had extreme morning sickness (HG) there were days I had to be carried off the bathroom floor because I was too weak to move. I lost 50lbs. And when my niece had it, she tore a hole in her LUNG from it. Extreme Morning Sickness can even kill you after birth from your teeth rotting from being sick so much when you were pregnant.
@beckyculp3073
2 ай бұрын
Hey Jules did you get a look at the jurors faces during his testimony?
@Empresstya
2 ай бұрын
Even though I get DV mindset, and didn't like some things prosecutor said, I know nothing about the facts and evidence. No one has "already made up their mind"... We watch the trial like jurors and opinions can change. There are manipulative women and men, there are abusers, those abused. Where the defendant sits within this trial will become clearer with evidence.
@NielNBob
2 ай бұрын
turning a puppypuncher's tv off is not a crime.
@fabshelleyg
2 ай бұрын
Damn, her poor eyes. At the beginning of the day, just one eye looked exhausted and this is only the first witness; Poor lady, looks like she's carrying the weight of the world 😢
@MrHeru1
2 ай бұрын
I think the "this = it", is the prosecutor trying to put out a question of the child's father... who he may or may not be. This may be a mistake, showing reason for the violence and fear of violence.
@cyndilagasse991
2 ай бұрын
sooo many dead kids because cps didn't listen to mom
@melaniedavenport4869
2 ай бұрын
I'm not too confident in this guy knowing so much about their life if he went so long in even meeting her in the first place.
@diannestickney8197
2 ай бұрын
My husband's children lived in the area of the Adam Montgomery case. It was so horrible.
@justjeanie1466
2 ай бұрын
Hello Melanie!
@holliewood55
2 ай бұрын
If I understand correctly she took her toddler daughter to go move back in w him on the day she shot and killed him..🤔 I'll b damned if I'm that scared of a man who has abused me, that I would take my daughter to move in with him. Either she's a terrible mother or she wasn't abused/scared. MHO Then make it really convenient and send her off to the park b4 you off her father. Then stick your 6 yr old on the corner w a sign saying free my Mommy! Despicable! Guilty or not that child does not need to be used by her mother the way she is being used. That poor child has been put in a terribl3 position by her her mother at such a young age and the trauma she will have to overcome from this will not be easy. 😢
@Classic-Ov3rThinker
2 ай бұрын
I may be wrong but I didn’t think they were moving back in together? But I’m completely new to this don’t know any background
@holliewood55
2 ай бұрын
@becedwards575 I thought I heard that from Vinny Politan or prosecution opening statements, however, you made me go do some research! Turns out he was in Florida helping her pack up to move her and their daughter to Maryland. They wanted to live closer to each other in the same state but they weren't planning on living under the same roof. Forgive me for misstating facts. Sounds like it's not going to be a long trial and I'm interested to see the outcome. Have a great night 🌙
@Classic-Ov3rThinker
2 ай бұрын
@@lhr8833 yes I lost some respect for Vinnie over the KR case!
@melaniedavenport4869
2 ай бұрын
I would love some history of his previous marriage.
@LovetheLed
2 ай бұрын
He admitted in a text that he had kicked her in the back
@AttorneyMelanieLittle
2 ай бұрын
On their honeymoon...🙄
@twinkletoes6290
2 ай бұрын
2:59:46 I’m a retired ballerina. Not sure why any ballerina, or any professional dancer, would be complaining about having to move for a contract w a company they’ve been accepted into or for a contract to dance in some other sort of performance (Broadway, musicals, Rockettes, Cirque du Soleil, etc, etc)?? Let alone be making such a big deal about it, trying to claim it was a “hardship” and “difficult” to such lengths in an article. It’s quite literally expected of you and you know you absolutely will have to move all around the country and even world for training, auditions, getting accepted into a professional company or getting a contract w an already existing performance/show/etc, for touring , etc. Which you’ll continuously do throughout your career. Specifically, in ballet, we start moving around the country (or even world) when we’re about 11 years old, moving for the summer to attend what’s called a “Summer Intensive Program” (SIP), where you train at another professional ballet company, getting more experience, diversifying & strengthening your training and starting to build up your résumé & CV!! Just a few years after that, you’ll not only move to attend SIPs, but you may pursue and be accepted into a pre-pro program at another company (at this point, you’re pre-pro and will be in your pre-pro program at the ballet company you’ve been training w at home). Where you’ll move for a year round program, the program will go from about late August to May or June the next year, just like high school and college. This is also to get more experience in training, train w different ballet companies, teachers, coaches, etc, getting even more serious in your training, diversify and strengthen your training, experience, performance experience, as well as your résumé and CV. Depending on what your experience was, what other programs you may have been accepted to during audition season (or getting an invite to their year round pre-pro program straight from a SIP you were doing w that company), if you’re happy and wish to stay there for another season or if you want to go somewhere new, you can stay w the same year round pre-pro program or end up deciding to go somewhere else, which means moving there for their program. In the end, you could have and should have trained w multiple companies for your SIPs, moving each time, as well as multiple year round pre-pro programs. So from about age 11 onward, a pre-pro ballerina will most likely not be living at home and will be moving around for various SIPs and year round pre-pro training programs. If the ballet company you normally train w wherever you live has a good year round pre-pro program, you might end up staying home and going there. Though, you’ll still be moving for SIPs and you really should try to get at the bare minimum one year in w another year round pre-pro training program to diversify & strengthen your training, performance experience, who you’re studying under, possibly even studying a different style of ballet, and really strengthening, diversifying and beefing up your résumé and CV to be impressive and stand out from the crowd at all the cattle call auditions you will be attending! Once you’re looking to go pro and get a contract, you will most certainly be moving. You’re going to take any opportunity and contract you can. Ballet is not a profession where you get to pick where you live or decide you’re going to stay and continue living where you grew up and where your parents live. If you have a reputable ballet company in your area, you could audition and possibly could get in, esp if that’s where you started training and have spent some good time w them. But it’s not a given you’re going to get accepted and get offered a contract! You most likely are going to have to move. By that point in their career, they should be so used to moving all around for training and jobs that it’s become second nature, something they expect and are totally prepared to be doing multiple more times…….esp if they want a job and contract!! As far as not getting paid, yeah, that’s a problem. BUT, it totally depends on what their contracts were and I haven’t seen one to know the details of what each dancer, based off the position they were offered (corps de ballet, soloist, principal, trainee, etc), was offered in their contract (which there are things other than just pay…..things like how many free pointe shoes the company will provide to them, if they will - which a brand new small start up company most likely won’t, shoe stipends, if you’re getting health insurance, partial coverage or having to pay for your own, etc etc). You’re really not going to be getting paid a lot in a brand new company that’s just being formed and will most likely have to work another job. Esp as a brand new company starting out isn’t going to be a full time job like other established companies are. I am shocked that they were trying to start off a brand new company w 40 dancers right at the beginning! Wtf!! That’s the size of a standard ballet company that’s existed for awhile!! Most small companies that are brand new and just starting off are much, much smaller and are thus very limited in the beginning as to what sort of performances they can do. They have to put the time in, build a reputation, continue to get endowments and investors and slowly grow over time until they can reach that point. They were smoking ballet crack that they thought they were going to start off right out of the gates w 40 dancers! I mean, COME ON!! It really sounds like Ashley wanted and expected to just snap her fingers and have a well established company materialize out of thin air! It’s incredibly unrealistic and impossible to do, esp if you’re not completely loaded and I mean LOADED!! But so far as the dancers having to move, my response as a retired professional ballerina is “yeah….and??” bc they should be totally expecting and be more than willing to move for a contract!!
@4Mr.Crowley2
2 ай бұрын
Melanie I am with you on the prosecutor trying to portray Ashley as a spoiled child (they never criticize the older man who decided to marry a woman thirty years younger) who needs her mommy when in fact she was experiencing horrible morning sickness and it’s a legitimate and serious medical concern. Kate Middleton was in the hospital for some time when she was pregnant as she was experiencing terrible morning sickness. Then the prosecutor stating that “he was not coming at her” is the usual prosecutor thing of stating “facts” that we can’t know. The shot was from side to side, which could very easily mean that he turned or was in motion when the shot was fired. It does NOT tell us that he was leaving the scene (as they initially claimed - that she shot him in the back, which is false). This prosecutor is not making a smart decision here to ridicule Ashley in a mean girl manner. I really hope the defense hires a legit DV expert to explain that DV isn’t just “choking” or “hitting” - maybe a Laura Richards type.
@melaniedavenport4869
2 ай бұрын
Melanie, I have a great mantra. I do not acknowledge attention seeking behavior.
@Classic-Ov3rThinker
2 ай бұрын
If she is faking she needs to be in Hollywood!
@laurac2424
2 ай бұрын
If anyone in the jury has had any experience with family court either themselves or through friends and family, or even co-workers, I think they will see the State’s opening regarding the family court matter disingenuous at best and complete balderdash at worst. I feel like, incredibly unfortunately, almost all of us have dealt with or know someone who has dealt with a former partner who had tried to retroactively weaponize the family court system when they don’t get their way. It’s almost more distasteful when you hear the story through a third party who you know, knows exactly how the family courts operate and just how ugly people get during these types of disputes. I have not finished the States opening, but so far I am wildly unimpressed, not Lally level unimpressed where we have seemingly dishonestly and complete lack of of theme/storyline/continuity of events or thought, but the overall feeling of dishonesty is there and that typically doesn’t play well with jurors, I also think a female attorney may have been a mistake in this case with this opening. Because of this attorney comes of as disingenuous because she is a women, it may not be fair, but the state absolutely picked her as a strategic choice, I just think it seems like a bad choice. As a woman, I don’t believe this woman at all, and I would be more apt as a layperson and a juror to be more forgiving to a male juror for potentially not understanding some of the things this woman is speaking on. Ugh with every word I hate it more. I have no idea about the facts of this case, that state way we’ll prove beyond a reasonable doubt the defendant’s guilt, but this is an abysmal opening statement. It doesn’t seem like a roadmap of what the evidence will show, but more of a character assassination on this defendant, and it comes of as completely tone deaf, borderline offensive to all women who are actual victims of domestic violence… big yikes when you know how important an opening statement is to a jury. I’ll be interested to see if the defense capitalizes on this.
@diannestickney8197
2 ай бұрын
Slippery snake named Tommy
@christinegalhardo6506
2 ай бұрын
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HUG EVA. POOR GIRL❤
@libwool2580
2 ай бұрын
Why would they show uncle the text messages between them?
@cyndilagasse991
2 ай бұрын
moms don't usually choose to be a single mom unless the guy sucks and we don't :decide" we are too sick or get to choose to induce labor weeks early
@Blue-Mondays
2 ай бұрын
Cousin Tommie has such smooth and detailed answers, he sounds very well prepped for testimony.
@geoffpoole483
2 ай бұрын
It's common practice to prepare witnesses for testifying; in the case of Tommie it's very obvious.
@Susie-C-J
2 ай бұрын
The state attorney is on another level of off-putting! I wish I was a fly on the wall with those jurors looking at this woman “sharing” why the defendant is a horrible person. 🤯
@nancyrolfe3033
2 ай бұрын
Have to say it bugs me that the prosecutor appeared so dismissive about emotional, mental & spiritual abuse….unless physical it’s not abuse? If he was a covert malignant narcissist it’s difficult for others to see them as a dangerous perpetrator and of course she would do whatever she could to pacify him especially when he has visitation rights. Sorry to go on a rant….This prosecutor’s opening statement wouldn’t “set right “ with me if I was on the jury. I could name several things that “add up” to me IF it was covert abuse. I don’t know anything about this case!!
@geoffpoole483
2 ай бұрын
I think it helps the prosecution's case to downplay the abuse.
@pattiwassman8703
2 ай бұрын
I truly believe if Karen Reed had been able to keep her facial expressions like this ladies she would have had many more supporters... Facial expressions and attitude matter
@LovetheLed
2 ай бұрын
Everyone was ripping this defendant for her “demeanor” also! What, if anything, does resting innocent face look like?
@kiwichicki
2 ай бұрын
Being authentic matters. Karen is mostly stoic nonetheless but authentic.
@LovetheLed
2 ай бұрын
@@lhr8833 so sad
@cyndilagasse991
2 ай бұрын
would love more details about how he became widowed
@charlii73
2 ай бұрын
"Thank you wrong Benefield" to me says he meant to text some other Benefield not she married the wrong one. He was thanking her for her response then letting her know he didn't mean to text her
@G.I.N.N
2 ай бұрын
Prosecution is going through witnesses today at lightning speed. 😂
@CurvaciousXOXO
2 ай бұрын
Is there a reason why we can’t speed the video up to watch it? I have playback speed options but when I tried to play it a little faster to catch up quicker, it doesn’t give me any sound. I am a YT premium member
@elettraatride657
2 ай бұрын
So Melanie has already decided what the evidence will show. I don't like when people refuse to take any side at any point of the trial, but when it's at the very beginning it shows a bias that makes me not trust your judgement. She's under a presumption of innocence, they have to prove she's guilty, but we should at least give them the chance to do so.
@hawthorneantilles6755
2 ай бұрын
This is a new case to me. So far not impressed w/pros. Sounds like more character assassination & spin so far. But want facts.
@susanknight9144
2 ай бұрын
Too bad KR couldn’t listen to a bench argument
@terrimarie2106
2 ай бұрын
This will be my 1st time to admit this in my outloudly I am a survivor DV And now a damn strong survivor I had to choose to do something, that I would have never done Otherwise. I found out I was pregnant after filing for divorce. Did you know you cannot get a divorce while pregnant. My choice to survive for my earlier marriage now involved aborting y child. I have had to live with this every since. His abuse was drug induced hostage beatings that lasted for days, including publicly with many witnesses. Can you or anyone else imagine forcing a child with that life?
@dellasandor4281
2 ай бұрын
Thank God for defense attorneys- that cop...Cops have a small community. He knows if he pulled up to her home- TWICE, within 2 yrs. This jury is NON-WOKE! Aint having any bullshiz IMO. Thank God!
@ktisdel1
2 ай бұрын
so sorry Karen weiss i suffer too from fibro
@makesmewonder6497
2 ай бұрын
I read that the jury is composed of mostly woman over 60? If that's the case, then perhaps they have experienced family/friends who have suffered domestic violence. It's not always about the physical bruises, and a camera will not capture the emotional, spiritual & financial damage.
@amberdawnthemjohnsons9908
2 ай бұрын
@AuntBB2 I’m basically the only parish isn’t considered a “River Parish”. You are James/Charles/John? I’m #225
@hawthorneantilles6755
2 ай бұрын
I was just finally reading up on this on websleuths. Not sure what to think yet. Why did they get together? Motivations on each side. His seems obvious.
@bernadetteconsilio
2 ай бұрын
Why only 6 jurors?
@cyndilagasse991
2 ай бұрын
if she thought he had money why did she have to use her cc to pay for the reversal?
@CatherineMorlock
2 ай бұрын
I don’t like this prosecutor’s tone nor insinuation of Ashley being less than
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