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Post by Hari Seldon on May 1, 2019 13:01:27 GMT
Just curious, but was anyone else bothered by the jurisdiction issue when the killer was killed, or has everyone just given up on justification for NCIS to be handling a case? Since the court ordered NCIS to 'forget' the guy had been a person of interest in their case, his murder should have been 100% in the hands of the local police department. They would have been stretching it to even ask to be kept in the loop on the investigation.
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Post by nas on May 1, 2019 18:37:08 GMT
actually, couldn’t you apply that question to the original crime from 30 years ago?
the boy who was killed wasn’t Navy - his father was...
so why was NCIS brought into the case in the first place?
🤔 maybe I’m misunderstanding the situation...
also, I just don’t understand why that murder case got tossed because the DNA evidence was inadmissible...
the Judge stated that the evidence was supposed to have been “destroyed years ago”... what!?!
I thought that’s how many cold cases are solved today because DNA from evidence collected years ago is now able to connect the perpetrator to the crime...
again, perhaps I misunderstood...
I recorded the episode and was watching it late last night, so maybe watching it again will clarify it...
I’m also having trouble connecting how the “murder of the murderer” is connected to the “dirty” SecDef investigation - and how the now “shot dead Fed”, Wesley Clark, and Mallory are involved...
I know I wasn’t so tired that I didn’t understand - the whole storyline just seems really convoluted... [giveup]
nas
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Post by Hari Seldon on May 1, 2019 19:47:54 GMT
actually, couldn’t you apply that question to the original crime from 30 years ago?
the boy who was killed wasn’t Navy - his father was...
so why was NCIS brought into the case in the first place?
🤔 maybe I’m misunderstanding the situation...
also, I just don’t understand why that murder case got tossed because the DNA evidence was inadmissible...
the Judge stated that the evidence was supposed to have been “destroyed years ago”... what!?!
I thought that’s how many cold cases are solved today because DNA from evidence collected years ago is now able to connect the perpetrator to the crime...
again, perhaps I misunderstood...
I recorded the episode and was watching it late last night, so maybe watching it again will clarify it...
I’m also having trouble connecting how the “murder of the murderer” is connected to the “dirty” SecDef investigation - and how the now “shot dead Fed”, Wesley Clark, and Mallory are involved...
I know I wasn’t so tired that I didn’t understand - the whole storyline just seems really convoluted... [giveup]
nas The DNA was on file because the killer had been falsely accused of another crime in 2003 and cleared by comparing his DNA to that case. The state of Maryland has a law where the police are not supposed to keep the DNA of people when they are cleared of the crime it was collected for (privacy issue). The Maryland police violated this law and entered the DNA into COTIS. This is how Kasie got her match, but since the DNA was not in COTIS legally it was treated similarly to an illegal search and seizure.
The connection to SecDef is the bailiff who killed the killer was doing a paid hit ($3million). They found the account with the money and were able to trace it back to having come from the $250 million account Clark had discovered belonging to the SecDef. So basically, the SecDef is at this time believed to be funding some vigilante justice with this big bank account. Just at the moment, something in the preview from next week (and I'm not sure what) has me thinking it might be someone working for the SecDef running the thing without the SecDef knowing.
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Post by nas on May 1, 2019 20:17:37 GMT
thanks for clearing up those points, Hari...
sometimes I think those “technicalities laws” are just plain wrong!
they allow criminals who are clearly guilty of the crime to walk free...
imho, that just ain’t right!! 😖
the one question I had at the beginning of my post still stands:
why was NCIS involved in the original murder 30 years ago? the murdered boy wasn’t Navy - his father was...
shouldn’t that case also have been under the jurisdiction of the local LEOs?
I don’t think I’m gonna go rush to rewatch this episode; it’s just got so many holes in it it’ll probably give me a headache...
nas
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Post by jessielee on May 1, 2019 22:02:08 GMT
actually, couldn’t you apply that question to the original crime from 30 years ago?
the boy who was killed wasn’t Navy - his father was...
so why was NCIS brought into the case in the first place?
" The Naval Criminal Investigation Service [NCIS] is a worldwide federal law enforcement organization whose mission is to protect and serve the Navy and Marine Corps and their families."
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Post by nas on May 1, 2019 22:51:05 GMT
o.k. - did not know that...
thanks, jessielee!
nas
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Post by luckysmom on May 2, 2019 2:15:13 GMT
I liked the episode and it will be interesting to see the tie in to the Sec of Defense.
I liked that they sent McGee as an inside man. But I find it hard to believe that someone as tech savy as McGee would have left a session "open" so it was so easy to see he had been trying to access information. It bothers me when the writers portray the agents as kind of stupid or careless.
I liked that the judge threw out the case when he had too, as distasteful as it was. In a million years I could not imagine being a defense attorney and watching someone obviously guilty walk. I guess you just have to believe in the process that ensures everyones rights are protected. And that the judge helped out when he could within the law.
I am glad that is wasn't either the father or the sister responsible.
I am with you nas - I think the connection between the baliff being paid from the Sec Defense bank account was a little hard to follow - him funding some kind of vigilante justice makes the most sense...
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Post by scotchrox on May 2, 2019 3:09:55 GMT
"Does NCIS have a break room?" Are they reading this board? I doubt it but it’s not a locked board so I guess someone around the production could know about it. It must be NAS... She pretends to have sun stroke from living in Phoenix for so long and
saying crazy crap to throw us off the trail that she is really a writer on NCIS...
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Post by nas on May 2, 2019 4:09:39 GMT
huh? 
what you talkin’ bout, scotchrox?nas
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