I'm pretty sure the grand jury did not even meet in January, all the reports I've seen report February 7-9 as the earliest session of this year.
When getting secondhand information, it takes about 30 seconds to Google the basics of the information to see if it could possibly be true. If the grand jury did not meet in January, how solid is the rest of the information? No one was "sitting on the information" waiting to make it available, because there have been similar comments in the past. I'm sure the media would have picked up on a large gathering of DiPietros and Roberts at the town courthouse, but the media is not into reporting second-hand information for the purposes of painting a biased picture of one side or the other. Supposedly, only Tori Gifford has known about the grand jury meeting, and she's been "sitting" on the information. JusticeforAyla likes to pretend to be important, but her "tip" for this latest rumor likely came from the same "source" who posted this comment on the Statement Analysis blog:
Delusions of grandeur. There goes you "exclusive" LOL. We've been hearing this routine for 5 months: arrests imminent, the grand jury is meeting, Justin's going down, etc... Put up or shut up, eh? J4A and SA have a penchant for starting rumors like this, and the next thing you know, it's being passed off as fact. Consider the source. It is also important to note that testifying in front of a grand jury is not always done to bring charges. There are investigative grand juries as well; meaning that the purpose is simply to compel witnesses to talk in an effort to further an investigation. To take this possible occurrence and spin it so that it seems like the police are sure of Justin DiPietro's guilt is a page right out of J4A's book (which is written on a 3rd grade level so that she can understand it).
To further state that police are holding off on bringing charges so that a certain investigator can question Justin is even more stupid. If Justin were pulled over in a traffic stop and taken to jail, there would be NO REASON for the arresting officer to question him. He could be brought in, and held in a cell until the lead investigator arrived. What J4A doesn't seem to understand is that if a grand jury indicts, it means that there IS probable cause that a crime was committed, and that the defendant (which would be Justin) committed that crime. They would not bring a case to a grand jury, and then wait for more evidence. That's illogical. It means that they have to do double the work. Additionally, why would the state of Maine allow a supposed killer to walk free? Don't law enforcement officials in that state owe residents the small favor of incarcerating those criminals who pose a great risk to the safety and welfare of the people?
STOP READING HERE, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO GET OFF TOPIC
I wanted to address Grace4Ayla. I will not hold anything you write against you, because by your own admission you are "bright, bubbly and full of energy one minute (for about a minute) and dazed, confused and lethargic the next."
One does not have to read too many of your writings to understand that you are also plagued with "confusion and unstable moods." Since you have no control over that, and even "powering through, using illegal substances to get by" doesn't help, I can't help but feel somewhat bad for you...
I wish you all the best in your endeavors with Junkies4Ayla and your starttheliesblog. Does this also mean that you made up the "Jenn from California" character? For a person who "can sleep all night, all the next day and again overnight only waking for food and water", you sure have a lot of time to make up elaborate lies! If you have time to do this, you can stay awake long enough to get a job. Living off the government?! pffffttttt. You tried, you failed. At life. I hope SSDI takes a look at how long you're able to stay awake to engage in your blogging activities; you could use that same energy to work a real job!
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The moral of the story is: Tori Gifford is an attention whore who would lie on her mother if it translates to blog views!
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| Key witness? Kathy Gifford may have observed a white van in the vicinity of 29 Violette Ave. on the night Ayla DiPietro went missing. |
Good day, folks!
Two points worthy of mention. Sealed indictments being held until the investigators are ready to announce are commonplace with varying reasons behind their being sealed. Grand juries have the right to ask questions and often investigators go out looking for info to answer those questions, leading to delay. So no, cases are not fully ready every time they go to the grand jury because grand jurors are people just like the investigators. The investigators may not always anticipate all of a grand jury's concerns, especially in a case like this where the facts are amenable to varying interpretations. Grand jury proceedings can take months to complete.
ReplyDeleteIf there is a parallel drug or insurance fraud investigation going beyond the Ayla Reynolds case, that would be one reason for getting sealed indictments.
Sealed indictments keep the indictment secret until the person has been arrested. That's it. They do not give the grand jury time to delay, time to continue investigating. That really doesn't make sense.
DeleteThe fact that an indictment is returned means there is already probable cause---the basis for an arrest.
So the point is that if the grand jury returns an indictment, there is NO REASON for that same grand jury to continue to investigate. The state attorneys and law enforcement can certainly continue, but if an indictment is returned, the grand jury has done their job. Sure it can take months to reach an indictment, but after that, the grand jury is done.
It is called preserving testimony. In the event that this case should take years to unfold a grand jury is also used to preserve testimony.
DeleteI think you misunderstood what I was saying.
DeleteSealed indictments can be held for a variety of reasons but I wasn't suggesting that one reason was to continue investigating an indicted party. If there should happen to be a murder case and a drug conspiracy case, for example, involving the same parties, an indictment on one might be held so as not to blow the investigation of the other. Points one and two were separate thoughts.
How is that sentence even added as an after thought? Parallel drug or insurance fraud investigation?? Really? Keep reaching.
DeleteMy comment is about Justin telling people things and those people then telling J4A. Here is a guy--Justin--that we aren't hearing a peep from. Yet, he confides some juicy information about the GJ to a friend that just happens to be a friend of J4a. It's possible, but not probable. We know the media in Waterville is lacking, but surely if there were players in the Ayla case going in front of the JG in January or February, wouldn't we have heard about it from someone other than here on a blog?
ReplyDeleteThere are too many rumors floating around on this case, getting picked up and carried on as fact.
If LE has had irrefutable evidence AND/OR a grand jury indictment against Justin for murder since January then they have been deplorably negligent in their duties - to Ayla and the people of Maine. What would they be waiting for? Someone else to get hurt? or for Justin to run off?
ReplyDeleteTori herself in comments said not to take her blog as fact so that just proves she is doing nothing but (pardon my french) blowing smoke up her supporters ass. She is not looking for Justice for Ayla!!!!! She is interested in nothing but the popularity and in the attention she doesn't even know what is fact or fiction. Take a cgood look someday at her comments it is the same handful of people commenting over and over again to give her 200+comments on a post. I have to ask myself why? Why do so many bow down and support everything tori says. She had a post about a cult well I am feeling that the only cult out there is the J4A cult. It really is almost creepy.
ReplyDeleteIt seemed to me like her blog was sort of taken over by armchair detectives and then she went along with it. I don't think she originally intended her blog to be an extension of SA. I don't know her at all, that's just the sense I got.
DeleteIs that a snaggletooth above?
ReplyDeleteTori wrote:
ReplyDelete"The only person who was not interviewed for the Grand Jury was Justin DiPietro. The only person not present at the Grand Jury proceedings was Justin DiPietro. That means the only person LE is looking to charge in this case is Justin DiPietro."
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This is a total concocted lie. Either Tori is hallucinating or she is making things up out of whole cloth because she thinks her followers are too stupid to realize she is lying.
Grand Jury proceedings are secret. There is NO WAY that Tori would have information about the list of witnesses called before a Grand Jury. She is lying.
Furthermore, when LE stated that it intended to bring this case before the Grand Jury in January, they EXPRESSLY stated that it was for an investigation of the poem that the retired teacher wrote stating that Ayla was taken out of state to have a better life. THAT is what was reviewed by the Grand Jury in January, not any homicide charges.
Thank you Alexandra, I had forgoteen about that.
DeleteHere is the article that talks about the Grand Jury investigating the poem about Ayla being kidnapped:
Deletehttp://www.pressherald.com/news/subpoena-seeks-to-track-author-of-ayla-poem_2011-12-31.html
Thank you, Alexandra
DeleteNow why would the AG issue a supenia to the Press Harold, for the contact information of the author of this poem? A poem about Ayla being kidnapped. ...Would they do that if they had evidence that Ayla was deceased?
DeleteRight around the same time that the GJ is "suppose to meet" to issue an indictment for the arrest of Justin??
How does that make any sense?
sorry...issue a subpoena...tired eyes
DeleteI think perhaps there is a lot of rumor and gossip mixed in with just a little truth.
ReplyDeletePerhaps some party's that know Justin or the DiPietro's were questioned by the Grand Jury. That doesn't mean it had to be about Ayla's case.
I believe I read that the Grand Jury heard evidence a few months ago concerning those that were arrewsted on the recent drug charges in Waterville. I've read that a few of the arrested are known to the DiPietro's. I don't know if that's true though.
Some were friends of Ashley Poilet.
DeleteIt's pretty much a given that they know each other. Waterville is a small city, a number of them are in the same age group. It's no stretch to think they knew each other to some degree. I know someone who knows them quite well & isn't involved in the drug scene at all. And yes.....Ashley Pouliot is friends with at least one that was arrested. Waterville is like that.
Deletethe GJ may not have met in January, but now we see that it DID meet in February. All involved by Justin were questioned????? More on this case this afternoon at 1:30. . . Bye Bye
ReplyDeletehttp://news.yahoo.com/ayla-reynolds-grand-jury-list-illuminating-225500015.html What do you idiots have to say about the grand jury now!
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