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Gojo has yet to weigh in on the current situation.

It is so hard to believe that, after debating a little over 10 hours, the jury was irrevocably hung!  I guess they don’t run juries like “Twelve Angry Men” any more. 

Still, I have to believe that the prosecution didn’t present their case as well as they could have.  The insurance policy was never mentioned.  Surely greed is a motive that the jury could understand.  Then, there was the sweater.  They didn’t emphasize that the important thing is that it wasn’t in Jason’s luggage.  They didn’t actually emphasize a lot, except for Jason’s infidelity.  And really, people…spouses are unfaithful all the time, without committing murder.  I don’t know…it just seemed like the prosecutor didn’t bring her “A” game.

So, there’s going to be a retrial.  I hope.  Because Jason Young killed his wife.

There are some plusses for the prosecution.  They have Jason locked into a story.  Now they just need to disprove it.  They also know what didn’t work. 

So, let’s go!  Let’s get this thing up and running again.  Michelle and Ryland deserve Justice.

We shall see.

One more thing, Scout. I really wish you would publish the name of the bitch who wants to talk about my daughter. I’m got people looking, but you could hurry the process along. Thanks. –Gojo

Now, ain’t dis nice!

Gojo and his daughter put themselves smack dab in the middle of this case from the very beginning!  His daughter was the visit control officer for the Young clan when the Fishers visited with Cassidy.  His daughter was touted by his very own self as a counselor who was going to help Michelle’s child get through the horrible aftermath of her father’s actions. 

In short, Gojo, you AND YOUR DAUGHTER deserve everything they get on any board extant where this case is being discussed.

Your history of threatening people whose opinions you fear goes back to the early days of the investigation.  You tried to get reporters fired from news outlets.  You succeeded in getting one poster fired from her job, and attempted the same with others.

Wow!  I just had a thought…did you ever come after me?  Oh well, probably not–after all, I’m not a heavy player in this case, just an opinionated curmudgeon.

Here’s one of the posts Gojo is so pissed off about:

“Ain’t Gonna Be No Trial” became the mantra of the Gojo-man.  “Ain’t Gonna Be No Trial.”

I wonder how many times he had to say it over and over in order to fall asleep at night.

“Ain’t Gonna Be No Trial.”

Well, Gojo, here’s your trial.  We got to hear Meredith, Linda, Heather, Pat, and the Golden Boy, himself.  Four hours, Jason defended himself, answering questions tailored to the prosecution’s assertions.  Some of his answers were pretty stupid.  The twig in the door, frinstance.  Uh huh.  Did he not realize the jury would see those photos?  Is Stretch Armstrong Jason’s alter-ego?  And what about the cigar thing?  He must have known that lie could be easily disproved.  Especially since one of the provisions of the Cassidy agreement was that she would not be exposed to tobacco smoke.  Please!  Still, he was all boyish charm, wasn’t he?  Facially animated, gesturing…I could see the salesman, and he did a damn fine job of hawking his purported innocence.  The fun part, though, is that nobody is buying.  It’s just not credible for a man to say he loves his wife, while systematically boinking every woman in sight.  It was funny (in a sick sort of way) when the comments on the boards ran to, “OMG…ANOTHER ONE????

“Ain’t Gonna Be No Trial!”

Right,  Gojo!

Oh.  And then, the trial was going to exonerate Jason.

I realize that the verdict is not yet in but, really, people! 

I mean…who else is there?  Gojo and others tried to make the case for Meredith as the possible killer, as well as unidentified strangers.  The latter makes no sense at all…the overkill indicates some intimacy between the victim and the killer.  It takes that to produce enough anger to do that much damage.  I think we all understand that, hence the attempt to smear Meredith, as the only other person close enough to Michelle to inflict that much damage.

Seeing Meredith on the stand should have allayed anyone’s concerns about her sincerity and honesty, especially in contrast with Jason’s sales pitch.  No longer can Gojo sustain the Jason-Moral-Mountain-Man image.  He sent his wife an anniversary card virtually from the arms of his mistress!  How very loving, Jason!  He had sex with at least three women outside of his marriage.

He lied and lied, and lied.  I am so glad he got on the stand.  I’m glad his mother and sister did, also.  We may have got a glimpse into the psychology of this family.  This jumped out at me…Jason was allowed to tease and terrorize his sisters, which Pat chalked up to “love.”  I have to ask, what kind of love is this, that is expressed in cruelty and abuse?  Because that’s what it is.  It’s verbal, psychological and emotional abuse.  Love, my ass!

But, I digress.  The trial.  Personally, I think it’s probably never a good idea for the defendant to taked the stand, unless he can be completely open and honest…i. e.., innocent.  This one, for all his boyish charm, was not particularly convincing. 

I’d love to see Eyes For Lies’ take on Jason’s performance. 

“Ain’t Gonna Be No Trial.”

I strongly doubt there will be an exoneration.

Wait and see.  And wait.

Saturday night and no party!! Why don’t you young people
shut down the computer and party?

Don’t know which Surfy is on tonight. The smart one must
have got a laugh-out-loud kick when the hotel guy looked at
the landscaping rock the cop showed him and said, “Yep, that’s the one.”
I know the cops didn’t have one of them lava sniffing dogs with them….
they would have bragged about it. How many lava rocks were
out there?

–Gojo
As one poster pointed out…nowadays we can post from the party!  Isn’t it amazing that discussion of a trial can be more important than partying?  I can just hear it…music, the clinking of glasses, the murmur of conversation…and there is Surfside or Wyn or Janetruth glancing through the comments on her phone and typing in a comment between canapes.  When a non-crime-obssessed guest asks, the commenter will say…”It’s my broker,” and the other guest will nod understandingly.

This conceit of Gojo’s that there are two sides to Surfside6 goes back quite a long way.  Because she looks at both sides of any given question, Gojo actually likes some of her thoughts as expressed in her comments.  When that happens, of course he is reading “smart Surfy.”  Whenever she says something he can’t argue, he claims he’s talking with the “other one.”  he fails totally with the lava rock.  Lava rock being somewhat soft (for a rock), it could well have some sort of mark left on it from being crammed in the door.  It’s not as if it’s obsidian!
I doubt the defense is through with Mere yet. Don’t you reckon
they will recall her?

–Gojo

You really need to quit beating that dead horse, Gojo.  Meredith (not Mere, Meredith) has nothing to say that will help Jason’s defense.  He discarded any hope of that when he gave his daughter up to her without bringing out all the things you claim about her at the custody hearing.  Did you notice in her testimony that she was SURPRISED that he did that?  She was hoping to achieve visitation, and she got the whole banana because Jason was not willing to open his mouth in defense of his rights as a father.  Now, if his defense is going to claim that Meredith had something to do with her sister’s murder, your boy has some ‘splaining to do!

Ah, but I did advise you not to embrace fully
those clever twisted cop theories. Much more to come
that no one has told you.

By the way, I haven’t seen you comment yet about the
Living Will. Is that something your lawyer bud forgot to mention?

Now let’s go find a party!!

–Gojo
Still obssessing over the party thing, Gojo?  How about you hang up your dial-up connection, turn off your Windows95 and go watch some Lawrence Welk on the VCR?

While I have no doubt we are going to hear things no one has ever told us, I don’t think they are what you think they are.  You are still spinning decidedly unclever twisted Gojo theories that don’t make sense.  Remember, we have been telling you for years:  The truth makes sense.  If it doesn’t make sense, it’s not the truth.  As for Jason and Michelle’s Living Will, PLEASE look up the legal rules on Living Wills.  The clause that would have sent Cassidy to live with Heather would have applied ONLY if Jason and Michelle were both deceased.  Why is this fact so difficult for you to grasp?  Jason is not dead.  You did figure out that part, right?  The living Jason made the decision that keeping his mouth shut was more important than retaining custody of his daughter.  He in fact, permitted her to be handed over to Meredith; the very same Meredith that you STILL seem to think has something that will help in his defense!

Please try to keep a grip on reality, Gojo, no matter how tenuous.

I reckon you’re misleading some posters, Scout.
Your list is not “evidence”. A bloody finger print
on the closet door, on the shower wall, on a door,
on the murder weapon—That would be ‘evidence’.
I don’t know how to help you to label the totality
of your list. Just leave it as is I reckon. To avoid
embarrassment, you should not wed yourself
too closely to this list of “stuff”.

–Gojo

Gojo, Gojo, Gojo.  You never give up, do you?  Hang on a mo…let me get Scout’s impressive list to which you are referring.

• Affair with Michelle Money…not damning by itself, but goes to motive
• Other incidents of womanizing and infidelity…ditto
• Hushpuppies footwear impression…one small brick in the wall
• Franklin footwear impression…ditto
• Murder weapon…last I heard, this had not been found, but if they can figure out what’s missing that could have killed her, it’s another brick.
• Deck boards – does shoeprint match Franklin shoeprint?...if it does…hoo boy!
• DNA from print surrounded by blood spatter on wall…this is extremely significant.  If (for instance), he leaned on the wall for leverage as he hit Michelle, and blood spattered over the hand or whatever he braced himself with…he’s toast.
• DNA from jewelry box…no stranger DNA?  Just where is the missing jewelry, anyway?  With the weapon and his clothes?
• Jason’s closet ransacked; Michelle’s untouched; cash in new wallet allegedly stolen…I don’t believe in the cash in the new wallet. 
• Cassidy clean…yup.  No stranger would have done that.
• Cassidy’s bloody footprints in bedroom and bathroom but not in hallway…ditto.  Somebody carried her from bedroom to bath.
• Cassidy’s bloody socks in bedroom…ditto.  Puts Cassidy just where Jason didn’t want her.
• Dog – where was he; what condition? Meredith says “freaking out.”…can’t wait to hear her testimony about that.
• Pancof-PD prescription cough medicine in Cassidy’s room…Gojo discounts this, but that’s only because he’s not a mother.  No mother leaves medicine where a child could get it.
• DNA and medication from oral syringe in Cassidy’s room…remember Pat saying that Jason told her he had given Cassidy diluted adult medications?  Uh huh.  If he felt he had to tell her that, it’s going to be a problem for him.
• No forced entry…brick in the wall.
• Garage door unsecured…ditto.
• Blood trail…I have actually forgotten about this.  If someone would refresh my memory in a comment, I would appreciate it.
• Coach purse document – timed out eBay auction…lamest of the lame excuses.
• Clean up – in the house, outside?…looking forward to hearing what evidence is presented about this.
• New York Times delivery person sighting of SUV…fits the timeline, no matter what Gojo says.
• Gracie Bailey Dahms’ sighting of Jason buying gas at 5:27 am…this is very significant.  It puts Jason in between Hillsville and Raleigh, and gives the lie to his claim to have been in the hotel all night.
• Security video from Hillsville Hampton Inn…no matter what they say about how he was just walking TOWARD the door, there is logically no reason to walk toward a door if you’re not on your way out through it.
• Key Card usage and lack thereof…one usage.  Uh huh.  Another brick.
• Rock in exit door…ditto

 Tampering with security camera…coincidence?  I think not.

Phone calls – Michelle Money…couldn’t stay off the phone with her, could he?  Except for those few lost hours…

• Phone calls – Pat Young…28 calls–and then, nothing.  What the hell does a 30-something man have to say to his mother that takes that many calls?
• Phone calls – Michelle Young…someone will testify as to whether his calls to Michelle were consistent with his normal pattern.
• Phone calls – Meredith Fisher…the “fluke,” remember?
• Ignored calls – Linda Fisher…consciousness of guilt.
• Cell phone pings and power on/off…ya can’t ping when you’re not on.
• Fuel usage inconsistencies…brick in the wall.
• Late departure and stop in Hillsville (halfway to meeting)…ditto.
• Late for meeting…why?  Inquiring minds want to know.
• Hyper and nervous demeanor…ditto.  Not to mention going off on Grace Dahm.
• Shorts and T-shirts in luggage; lack of appropriate clothing…he really, really didn’t expect to get all bloody.
• Change of clothes at midnight; clothes never found…this is also huge.  The clothes in which he left the hotel never did turn up.  Why?
• Missing Hushpuppies; other shoes purchased at same time found in Jason’s storage unit along with cream-colored sweater he wore on 11/2/06…I’ll bet real money they are with the clothes, missing jewelry and weapon.
• Objects seen in Jason’s hand in Hampton Inn video…gloves, maybe?
• Contradictory statements to friends about reason for stopping in Hillsville…if you’re gonna lie, it’s best to be consistent.
• Search terms on computer – “anatomy of a knockout”, “ischemia”, “head trauma knockout”, “right posterior parietal occipital region”, “divorce”…computer searches take down so many killers.
• Testimony from Shelly Schaad regarding Jason’s demeanor, dress, and behavior before leaving home…looking forward to hearing this.
• Shelly Schaad’s testimony regarding phone calls she overheard between Jason and Michelle Thursday evening…ditto.
• Impromptu side-trip to Brevard when Jason’s friends were expected to arrive for NCSU Homecoming weekend…another inconsistency.
• List of items reported missing by Jason Young via Pat Young…pearls?  Please!  No random druggie steals pearls.  Too difficult to tell if they are real…
• Failure to cooperate or inquire about investigation…no matter how you spin it, it exudes consciousness of guilt.
• Marks on Jason found at NTIO…coincidence?  Once again, I think not.
• Fight at Wedding…I’m dying to hear the skinny on this.  And who locked whom out of the hotel room?
• Trip to California…no matter now it is spun, it’s aberrant behavior.
• Hostile email from Jason to Michelle…that was very cold.  Points to motive.
• Public fights between Jason and Michelle…a “volatile relationship,” indeed.
• Jason’s public mistreatment and verbal and emotional abuse of Michelle…ditto.
• Disparaging talk by Jason about Michelle and his marriage…ditto, ditto.
• Jason’s email to Camp Illahee girl claiming to be unmarried…that Jason!  Isn’t he a rascal?
• Carroll Anne Sowerby’s visit the week prior to the week of the murder; problems between Jason and Michelle at that time…suspicious activity, pointing to motive.
• Ring-swallowing incident…ditto the rascal.
• Jason’s drunken party incidents and problems caused in marriage…he was such a prize, wasn’t he?
• Therapist; issue of divorce?…this testimony will be interesting, to say the least.
• Jason’s emails to Kim after the murder…all that stuff about the fuss dying down and blowing over–what husband of a murdered wife wants that?  Consciousness of guilt again.
• Behavior toward Michelle’s family after murder…ditto.
• Abandoning Raleigh home…ditto.
• Failure to file claim for Michelle’s life insurance…huge.  Nobody takes out a cool mil in insurance and then doesn’t claim it.
• Moving on; not attending memorials or contributing financially to funeral or headstone…truly a prince among men.
• Trolling for dates on Internet using pictures with Cassidy…so cute.
• Refusal to allow Linda Fisher to have contact with Cassidy…Just WHAT was he so afraid Cassidy would tell her?
• Giving up custody of Cassidy…also huge.  No father does that without a very pressing reason.

Many of these things can be individually explained or spun away, but, together, they will lock Jason Lynn Young up for the rest of his life, no matter what the moot one says.

I was wrong. And I reckon sometimes it’s good to be wrong.
Without a trial, Jason would have this case hanging
over him for the rest of his life. No way to “get on
with his life”. I reckon we all want Justice
for Jason’s wife and baby. I came here for that.

–Gojo

“Ain’t gonna be no trial.”  He said it over and over, on any board that would let him post.  “Ain’t gonna be no trial.”  So now that there actually IS going to be a trial, he still wants us to think his Golden Boy will be exonerated.  Spin, spin, spin, Gojo…

Let me put it this way, Scout: I think Brad Cooper got shafted
by that jury. I reckon the same thing might happen to
Jason, too. I hope you will ask me again after we see
what the persecution has to say. So far, I only know
part of the evidence.

I just heard that the judge seems to be a no-nonsense guy
who will keep the lawyers on task. Good to hear.

–Gojo

Cooper got “shafted,” did he?  Does Gojo think that every husband convicted of killing his wife got “shafted?”  Cooper defended himself in the Wrongful Death Suit.  That gave the prosecution six hours of video that could be (and was) used against him.  The man was convicted by his own words and actions, Gojo, and not “shafted” at all.  Or are you one of those who thinks Nancy Cooper deserved to die?

By the way, if you are considering approaching
any of the Brevard friends, I advise against it.
You’re not too well-liked. Somebody might
whip out a basketball.

–Gojo

This is, of course, a reference to the  “NC Wanted” cameraman who was pegged with a basketball when filming an attempted interview with Jason during a basketball game in Brevard.  The infamous “You came here for THAT?”  quote dates from then.  As an aside, has anyone been keeping track of Gojo’s threats?  I know of one poster at Friction Powered who lost her job because of Gojo, and a few more who felt very threatened.  Plus a couple of reporters felt the heat.  Gojo was a veritable threat factory for a while, there.  Good to know he’s consistent in some things…

Law enforcement will screw you. Don’t forget that.
The right thing to do is to protect yourself and force
the cops to search diligently for the killers. In this case,
law enforcement settled for the easy arrest.

–Gojo

O geez!  Still on that old kick, eh Gojo?  You couldn’t be more wrong.  The police did search diligently.  That’s why it took three years to arrest the killer, and four and a half to come to trial.  Are all Mountain Men so paranoid?  Does that come from years of dodging “Revenuers?”  Did they get your still, Gojo?  Is that why you have to protect yourself?
Say, Scout, IF Jason is declared not guilty,
would he be able to return to court and have
the judgment about the $15 million and about
his daughter reversed? Maybe we have a lawyer
reading here who can tell us.

–Gojo

Gojo, Jason had an opportunity to defend himself in both the civil trial and the custody case, but chose not to.  There might be an opportunity to appeal, but he won’t get an automatic do-over.

However, as Jason is guilty as hell, this particular point is moot.

All your points are moot.

You are moot.

Repeat after me.  “Gojo is moot.  Jason is toast.”