go4two said:
From today's Missoulian in the comments about the article
Someone named Bittersweet posted this:
Paoli also asked her about a note she sent to a high school friend in Great Falls that detailed the trouble she was having with getting her mom, aunt and cousin to be on her side, and also included thoughts she was having about feeling responsible for what happened and even guilty....
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part of the note...."And now I keep thinking that maybe I did want it, and that’s why I didn’t punch him or kick him or bite him. It’s all kind of ridiculous because I know I didn’t ask for it.The more and more this goes on, the more I feel guilty about it. The whole situation makes me think I just lied."
Did the Jury get to read this letter?
The Jury is going to remember this letter!
I missed this, and certainly didn't see the note.
If true, the portrait that this young woman paints of herself is disturbing in many ways. The idea that she has fabricated an entire earlier life history of trouble, of bullying, of diagnoses, of on-going counseling -- a perpetual and ongoing victimhood at the hands of other people, her peers -- and that this narrative may have been entirely fabricated and stunningly at odds with the testimony of her parents is ... extraordinary.
That was no small difference of opinion over a minor fact. It is as though they raised an entirely different girl, with different life experiences, than the one that testified as their daughter. This is Twilight Zone quality.
The fact that her former high school sweetheart testified as to the loyalty and integrity of a former girlfriend who had, in fact, shown no loyalty to him and had lied to his face about the very incident that he was testifying about, reinforces a perception that there are, in fact, two young women involved in this debacle each presenting a different face to a different person for a different purpose.
All of this is painted against a backdrop of a young woman who sought out what at first appeared to be standard reporting protocols -- an Examiner Nurse, a Counselor, an Assistant Dean, a Detective -- and one-by-one engaged in selective reporting, emotional recruiting, relationship manipulation with the result that each, in certain specific ways, "took sides" and stepped beyond their professional boundaries is an extraordinary exposition as to the effect of a determined narrative in the hands of a capable teller.
To see her thinking that "she may have lied," and admitting it to a friend is, unfortunately, consistent with a lifetime of apparently doing just that.
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