D4vd’s Defense Team Says Evidence Will Show D4vd Is NOT The Killer As CSAM Evidence Comes Out

28:26And she says, but I'd certainly like to see what the legal authority is that counsel claims it has before I make any other statements. Blairbrook argues it's an entirely one sided narrative regarding what the prosecution believes they will seek to admit in court at the preliminary hearing or what the prosecution claims will be the testimony in a preliminary hearing of witnesses. we do have a very real concern about the amount of white hot focus of attention on this case for the last seven months and specifically in the last two weeks and we are very much concerned with guaranteeing david the right as he is presumed innocent in this courtroom as we sit here today the right to a fair trial and we believe that this brief if not sealed will harm and compromise that right the judge sides with beth silverman the people you know that she will not be sealing the brief hitting on the fact that LA County is the most populous county in the entire nation.

29:14LA County routinely has high profile cases, including celebrities and quote, this case is not unique in that aspect. And I know Ms. Burke, and this is not to undermine your own characterization of extreme media attention in this court's experience. This media attention is no different than the court has seen in other high profile cases. wow wow as for her saying that the people's brief is one-sided she's like well yeah it's the fucking people's brief not the defense's brief she says it's their brief just like any filing by the defense would be one-sided in the sense that it would be a proponent of the defense position naturally it's going to be one-sided basically why would the people put in your two cents the defense is like okay fine we want to quickly get a preliminary hearing and we want a lot of this discovery right now Blair Burke was saying this is like before she kept pushing it back she's like from the media reports apparently there have been four months of secret grand jury proceedings we believe that Mr.

30:16Burke is entitled at the earliest opportunity to an open preliminary hearing and the proceedings not be done in secret so we are asking for a preliminary hearing to be set at the earliest possible date on the 10th day So this is like, they keep pushing it back and back and back. And they... Wait, so they wanted a quick in that moment. And then they keep pushing it back after that. She also states that she wants discovery, that they have no discovery, basically. Quote, we have been given almost no discovery thus far. We've received a three-page follow-up report, no autopsy report, and a copy of the complaint.

30:49And we would ask the people respectfully to produce discovery at the earliest opportunity. Beth Silverman is like, your honor. as I indicated to counsel. There's approximately 40 terabytes of discovery in this case. Moreover, in order to obtain the transcripts from a grand jury investigation. So she's like, Blair Burke is asking me for grand jury transcripts. Counsel has to file a motion. She knows the way the system works. She's not doing it? So she's like saying, oh, I didn't get the grand jury transcripts. And Beth is like, you didn't fucking file a motion to get him. She didn't say it like that.

31:21Yeah, yeah. So Beth is like, she doesn't know what she's doing. Yeah, she's like, she knows the way the system works. I'm not able to gather those. They have to be provided after the court orders them released because it was an investigation. Second of all, if counsel plans on going to a preliminary hearing within 10 days, it is unlikely that there will be very much discovery provided within that period given the voluminous nature and how long it's going to take to copy into drives. In addition to that, the coroner's report was sealed in this case in order to prevent it from hampering truthful testimony from witnesses that testify at the grand jury, which is kind of interesting to think about but wait why is it interesting oh yeah like how would anybody know so they're implying they don't want someone potentially know the state of or how she died how she died to tell a lie or match okay wow or it could be like the i guess the tv shows where nothing has been released and someone's like yeah he stopped i didn't know he stabbed her and they're like who said she was stabbed you know something like that so does david's team seem like under prepared or just don't from what i saw i know i think i'm sure i'm sure blair burke is on her shit and it seems like with every hearing she's more on her shit okay but if he's paying that much i mean at that point like get brian steel in there as well like it's just she doesn't seem to be as quick with all these little things yeah yeah yeah because usually when you are paying that much money the defense i mean you're expecting them to be sharper than the prosecutors no offense right because like these are the top top level yeah yeah they're making the big bucks yeah that's why they get millions millions of millions yeah like you're expecting they're gonna run circles around the prosecution yeah but wow okay not saying prosecutors are not as intelligent they're just overworked they got a lot of cases going on they're underpaid they're overworked so the prosecutors are like you guys want a preliminary hearing and you want all the discovery i'm telling you right now you're not gonna get that because there's so much evidence, it's going to take longer than even 15 days to get you the evidence that you want.

33:47Throughout the investigation, we've accrued approximately 50 terabytes of data. Over the last approximately month, maybe five weeks, Robbery Homicide Division has been trying to upload their entire investigative file through a system that the county purchased for the DA's office, where we're all supposed to be able to share information with defense counsel directly. After approximately four and a half weeks, five weeks, only 30 % of the LAPD's case file has been uploaded and that is using multiple computers. There is a voluminous amount of digital data in this case. She also gives us an idea of what kind of evidence there will be.

34:17There are police reports and documents from the LAPD, from the Sheriff's Department, from the CHP. There's body-worn video. There are numerous forensic reports including DNA trace evidence, field investigative unit services, chemical processing. There are property reports. There are vehicle reports. There are arrest and booking reports. All of those things we are going to endeavor to turn over hopefully tomorrow afternoon. Overall, Beth Silverman seems super confident. David's team seems a little less confident. There are a lot of interesting moments where David's team seem... Okay, maybe like it just takes a second for them to get into the groove of things, but there's this moment where the defense requests the judge to unseal the search warrants.

34:55We'd ask that we'd orally move to unseal them so that the court can issue an order so that like we're just asking through mouth the court is like yeah I'm not sure I can issue just a general order to unseal search warrants without specific case numbers I don't have a problem with issuing an order but I think I would need to have the specific and by case number it wouldn't be this case number Beth Silverman talks to a detective and she's like okay I'll get you all the warrant numbers and later Blair Burke is like by the way I brought you this five terabyte drive for you since you told me last time in open court that the one terabyte drive I gave you wasn't enough.

35:33Wait, wait, wait. Okay. So previously, previously Blair Burke gave Beth Silverman a one terabyte drive, okay, which like is notoriously not a lot. Like this is one terabyte. There have been FOIA requests that we've done where they're like, send us a fucking one terabyte drive. And it's like police reports, right? So I'm assuming in this case it's massive and they're sending a one terabyte drive okay she knows there's yeah 50 50 terabytes so then she sends a one terabyte drive and beth silverman in open court is like what did you think you were gonna do with that like what are you what do you want us to do with that that's nothing we need a lot more than that like you're you keep asking us for discovery and you give us a one terabyte drive so then she's like by the way i brought this five terabyte drive okay she's like waving it around i think now they want specifically before this prelim it seems that the defense clearly want the icloud data beth silver this is icloud from david's icloud account they want that what that's what they want and by the way the ccm is not going to be on there um we're going to get into that in a second but they want the icloud data whatever's on that icloud i don't know it is on iCloud photos probably photos voice memo maybe notes apps these days people have been doing lots of notes apps he seems like the type to do that yeah so they're like we want the iCloud data beth silverman was like that iCloud data in totality just the iCloud data is probably like eight eight terabytes which this has been again misspoken in the news and on Reddit of like, oh, it's eight terabytes of CSAM.

37:11It's just eight terabytes of iCloud data. And none of the CSAM is going to be on there. Obviously they can't just like hand over CSAM like that. So Beth Silverman is like, okay, we'll get your fuck ass five terabyte hard drive out of here. She doesn't say it like that, but more or less she is like, absolutely. I will say absolutely under no circumstances. Did she say that? I'm just making things up. It just sounds like that. Okay. She's like, I'm sorry. Just so councils aware, And I'm sure the court knows this. We cannot place an item that is larger than the capacity of the drive you provided us on two different drives.

37:43She's like, legally speaking, we don't do this. I can't split up evidence. So if the iCloud data is eight terabytes, I can't put four on this one and four on the other one. You got to at least give me a 10 terabyte drive and I can put all the eight terabytes in that 10 terabyte drive. So basically, get your fuck ass five terabyte drive out of here. Is that not? And Beth Silverman is like, it cannot be split. These are direct transcripts. not the fuck ass five terabyte drive but like the rest of it Blair Burke says so Beth Silverman says it cannot be split I heard that for the first time today we will do that and deliver it tomorrow she's like I'll get you your 10 terabyte drive tomorrow and she says great and also going forward I've been informed that when you give up a hard drive it needs to be sealed in other words you know you give us an open box we need a sealed hard drive like in the original packaging okay so yeah yeah yeah wow yeah i did think yeah i don't know maybe i'll see her in her full glory soon i guess but i there are it's interesting it's just interesting oh and speaking of the ccm so the ccm evidence the way that they do it is at least in this county is they're going to put it on a law enforcement computer that ccm will be placed in the courthouse in a very specific room that only the defense and the prosecutors can access and the defense will have to go there and view the ccm or an expert will have to go and view the ccm on that specific computer they can't bring it back they can't have it on their devices because even just having it on a device is illegal even if it's for work right so yeah which i mean blair bork knows that and she's like yeah absolutely so it's not a problem i'm just saying it was a part of the conversation yeah because i guess there were some concerns of like maybe david would like to see certain things right now netizens think that this the defense probably will not be insanity it doesn't seem like there can be even a viable insanity plea which I mean hardly ever works to begin with but there's just so many times you can see he's in the right state of mind protecting his tour protecting his music performing a lot of people think that the defense will be that Celeste OD'd and that he is just responsible for freaking out and getting rid of her body or trying to get rid of her body in the autopsy report it looked like she tested positive for drugs being in her system.

40:26Those were presumptive positives. So this is the initial basic toxicology, which is just like a basic thing that they do for all the autopsies, but how a lot of things could come back positive because of other compounds that are found in the body through the decomposition process, such as meth, MDMA. But when they did further testing, those came back not detected. Other things that were found in her system were low amounts of ethanol, basically alcohol in her system, which we all know is naturally formed during the decomposition process. So really, there doesn't seem to be drugs in her system that the defense could point to and say, see, she OD'd.

41:04I think the only thing the defense really has is everything the autopsy doesn't say. So the autopsy says the manner of death is homicide and by two penetrating wounds. But it doesn't say who's holding the knife, right? So it doesn't say it is a knife. if it doesn't say it's David holding the knife. So I think that's going to be the main focus. I don't necessarily think they could even point the finger at anybody else, but I really don't know what the defense is going to be. These are just speculations. I just can't imagine what the defense is. As for did David's family know, that's been a huge topic of conversation because the court document states this is the pre-preliminary hearing brief that Blair Burke wanted sealed.

41:46Throughout 2024, the victim spent a significant amount of time with the defendant, including summer weekends at his home in the Hollywood Hills and traveling with him to Las Vegas, London, and Texas to meet his family. People cannot grasp the concept that David's parents believed that she was of age. She clearly doesn't look of age in any photos and videos that I've ever seen of Celeste. She clearly looks like a minor. Online sentiment agrees with that. The family have reportedly been very, very close with David. It seems like, I mean, there's footage of his sister going up on stage. There's alleged videos and photos from the concert at the Fonda Theater where Celeste is sitting with his parents in the VIP section.

42:29One comment writes, apparently David was telling people she was 19 and a college student at USC. And maybe that flies with his friends. Like maybe that is okay if he's brought to a huge house party where the lights are dim and everybody's drunk and you're just like, oh yeah, this is my girlfriend. She's 19. I don't know if people would question in that context especially if it's like a very passing greeting of like hi i think if you hung out with celeste multiple times you would know she's a minor like that i just can't wrap my hand around the fact that someone could argue that they don't know but i don't know if you see her in passing maybe now if you're bringing someone home to your parents and you say she's 19 and she's a student at usc his dad is an attorney his mom is a teacher I can't imagine that they would believe that.

43:14I just don't see that happening. You know, high school, middle school teacher? Is it? I don't know. But I mean, she has children around that age. Yeah. That's crazy. It doesn't make any sense to me. Yeah. She looks so young in all of her pictures. I know people are probably going to try to do the whole adultification thing of young girls. where they're like, she's mature. She looks 11. I just, I don't know. I don't know how they could even possibly believe that.

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46:33They did know, however, that David was at least being investigated before his arrest because they were subpoenaed to the grand jury hearings earlier in 2026. And that's part of why the information got leaked that there was a grand jury investigation into David, because all of this is sealed. So it gets leaked in two big ways. So the first of them is that David's parents and his brother Caleb, the three of them, Caleb is now 18, they fight the subpoena. They're in Texas and they file a petition of habeas corpus contending that the trial, that the court's order summoning them to testify in California violates due process.

47:07So this, this is public. So like they have to reference the grand jury investigation and they have to reference that David is the target of the investigation. That's how people found out. Yeah, so that's how they're like, oh, we can confirm for sure there's grand jury investigations into David. Because otherwise it's sealed. And then Neo gets arrested. And it's kind of like, okay, now we can definitely confirm again once more that this is happening. But they did end up going? No. The families? No, yeah. They've still been fighting it out in court. Okay. Yeah. So the DA's office fought telling the judge in Texas.

47:44I would say if a car with a dismembered, decomposing body is registered to your home address, because David's car was registered to Texas, you should expect to be questioned by the authorities about that. And that's what this is, Judge. I'm asking you to find that the family witnesses are necessary and material, and I'm asking you to find that it will not cause them undue hardship. as for the Burke parents their attorney argues on their behalf if the DA needs parents to testify then they have no case in my opinion they're just doing that for harassment purposes if a proper subpoena was issued they would have already spoken they the attorney has stated that the Burke family has been somewhat aware that an arrest was a possibility which is kind of crazy um yeah which side note David also transferred two of his Houston houses to his a trust under his mom's name i believe his mom is the beneficiary of the trust that was back in september of last year so he moved quick with that really quick wait september the body was found in september yeah and within like 10 days he moved the house to his mom both houses and you know must be in the work already then yes maybe if i'm not mistaken that's a very lengthy process to move a house title deed whatever to a trust to like move ownership i'm sure you have to get i don't know if he has a Mortgage.

49:06Like lots of people are involved. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He for sure started that before. Or got it done very quickly. Very quickly. Right. But it seems like that was a huge priority then at that time is all I can say. Wow. But through the attorney, the family has made a statement stating, the parents are sad and disappointed that David was arrested. However, they fully stand behind him and believe he is innocent. They fully support him. Caleb, this is David's 18 year old brother. He was seen in that video with Celeste and his little sister at the Fonda theater. He has unfollowed David on Instagram since David's arrest.

49:45He takes to a story to write all pedophiles and rapists should die period. So that was kind of the very first statement that he ever made during the grand jury investigations because he also filed a habeas corpus to not testify in front of the grand jury people thought that he was probably on the same sentiment that david's parents were on which is they're going to stand by david but then he posted that and so people were wondering okay well clearly this is in the context of everything happening it seems like he could really only be talking about david right is what people were thinking then he was also seen liking comments like justice for celeste now after david's arrest though around the time of david's arrest caleb starts releasing more music i will say that he didn't just kickstart his career after david's arrest this is not like a new thing which i do think would be very problematic he has been releasing music for a long time for like the past three or four years he actually went under a different stage name so he went from being Caleb with a V.

50:51So C-V-L-E-B. That was his stage name, similar to like David. But then he changed it to Karakova to further distance himself from his brother. So he released two songs. One was titled Sex, which kind of sent the internet off on a witch hunt of people accusing Caleb at best being insensitive, at worst being involved. There were a lot of accusations being thrown about. Caleb Burke has since come out to state, quote, I've been wanting to say something for a while, but I have to be careful about what I say. This is an ongoing legal matter. I don't want to make this horrible situation about me. I want justice for Celeste and her family.

51:32I've seen people say that I knew what was going on and was protecting my brother. This is not true at all. I have not lived with my brother for years and was not very close with him. We didn't speak often other than when our family was brought on tour or he was visiting home. I was around Celeste a few times when I was 15. I did not know her well and I did not know her age I think I will say maybe more believable when someone is 15 to not be able to identify I think I give a lot more grace in this situation versus his parents yeah I mean I'm like you're 15 you probably don't know either right he continues people have been posting a video showing me backstage with her at one of David's concerts when I was 15 and I've been waiting to address it for a while.

52:16So when this video was circulating, some people were even thinking, what if Caleb and Celeste were dating? And like there were so many weird internet theories, which turned out to be entirely false. But he writes, people have gone as far to say that I was sneaking her backstage, which is not true. She was already at the show and the video takes place after the show had already ended. In the video, we were sent to grab something from a fan that was in the front of the stage and we are walking back. News companies such as TMZ, Daily Mail, and others have started saying that I'm taking advantage of the whole situation to promote my music and that I am just now launching my music career.

52:53That is not true at all. I've been releasing and posting music over the last three to four years and I took over a half-year hiatus due to what happened. I changed my online name from Caleb to Kova as I did not want to associate myself with any of this. I have not once mentioned the situation or my identity on the new accounts. So on Karakova, he never mentions that he's David's brother. TMZ even reported my aging correctly saying that I'm 20 when I just turned 18 in November. I had scheduled my first release under the new name before any of this became a headline again, and the song came out two days before the arrest.

53:27This project, the music, videos, and songs were already in motion long before any news coverage around my brother resurfaced. My intent has never been to use this to bring attention to myself or my music. this is the whole reason why I started over from scratch. My decision to continue releasing music is not about using any of this for attention. Music is my life. And after stepping away from months because of everything that's happened, I want to build my own path. Netizen reactions have been mixed. There are two groups of people. They're very divided. One group who believe that Caleb, David's brother, is being incredibly insensitive and tone deaf.

53:58With one person writing, even if Caleb had no malice in releasing music, at best it's still incredibly disrespectful and demonstrates a complete lack of empathy towards Celeste and her loved ones. I keep seeing comments following his statement along the lines of, he shouldn't have to pause his life, or there's never going to be a perfect time to do it, and find the lack of empathy towards Celeste and her loved ones absolutely abhorrent. No matter how you spin it, even if he had nothing to do with this case, he is someone who is way too close to this case for this to be anything but in bad taste.

54:26Anyone who says, quote, there will never be a perfect time is being willfully ignorant. Are you telling me there is truly no better time than right fucking now? One comment responds, justice for Celeste. I disagree though. If my brother killed somebody, what does that have to do with me? I didn't do it. Y 'all need to remember that David Anthony Burke is the murderer, not David's family, not Celeste's family, not David's friends, not Victoria Mendez, which is the fake name he ordered supplies in. It was David. Be mad at him. Another perspective reads, first, nobody in this case deserves more sympathy and empathy than Celeste and the Rivas Hernandez family, but people should really give Caleb a break.

55:00He is not the same person as David. Just because his older brother made a terrible decision does not mean that Caleb should have to suffer. He's already disowned him on Instagram stating that he thinks all rapists and pedos should die. He basically voiced that he wants death for his own brother. Consider how Caleb is feeling, what he's going through right now, and he's human too. Imagine how difficult it would be to find out that your older brother, who you idolized and drew inspiration from, is not at all who you thought he was. Then while trying to process that, you're constantly being criticized and hated on just for being related to him.

55:29Can we please try to have some more empathy here. He's 18. The dude is barely even an adult. One person comments, agreed. He denounced his brother's actions and it's obviously not his fault. It's gotta suck to have that shame and stain on the family. And of course, you'd give your family member the benefit of the doubt until you saw evidence to the contrary. We didn't even find out anything till just a few weeks ago. I doubt he knew any more than we did. Predators are professionals at lying and hiding their behavior. Their families want to believe the best of them. So it's even harder for them to accept.

55:56If he was defending him in spite of the evidence, it'd be a different thing but he isn't his life and character shouldn't be ruined due to his brother's shitty choices my heart goes out to him because having a family member turn out to be a pedo and a murderer is a different kind of loss one that you can't even really grieve without being looked at funny by the general public it's gotta be overwhelming af and i hope he has support beyond the parents who might be in denial for all we know at least he came out and spoke on where he stands with it which took a lot of spine in my opinion another comment disagrees though writing but just saying if he wanted to, he could release all this shit later.

56:30It wouldn't have been the end of the world. One person writes, I think the problem with the whole discussion of Caleb is that people are blurring the lines of this is tone deaf and poorly timed and this proves malicious intent. That's why some of this starts feeling like a bias-driven witch hunt. The standard becomes impossible to satisfy. If he releases music now, he's capitalizing on the tragedy. If he waits two years, people would probably say he only waited for the backlash to cool down. If he speaks publicly, he's manipulating sympathy. If he stays silent, he doesn't care. Once literally every action is interpreted in the worst possible light, it stops being about fairness and starts being about emotional projection.

57:05And to be clear, I completely understand why people are disturbed by the timing and the lyrics, given the context of this case. The optics are awful. But this feels gross and insensitive. It's still very different from this guy is intentionally exploiting a murdered child for his career, his musical career. One is a reaction to optics and emotion. The other is a serious assumption about someone's motives with no direct evidence behind it. I will say, I think the part that stuck out to me is that out of everyone on David's, I don't want to say side, but people that were closer to David than Celeste, that have publicly spoken out, his brother seems to be the most transparent and straightforward with condemning David.

57:44His own brother. And I think that you can tell from the videos. And again, this is not me saying, oh, David's brother deserves all of our sympathy. you can tell from a lot of the videos he definitely looked up to his brother is he what is he well established at all does he have no oh so he's okay barely having okay barely i mean he doesn't outright condemn his brother but he basically does you know and so it seems like this is the most transparent response that someone from close to david has put out like far better than even Neo in Asia who are older than Caleb and also were not related to David.

58:26As for Celeste's family, they told Rolling Stone that they are in unfathomable pain. There were rumors circulating that Celeste's parents were accepting money from David to hide the relationship. There were numbers thrown about anywhere between$9 ,000 a month to$15 ,000 a month that they were receiving this payout, that they were being financially supported by David. They have flat out rejected that rumor stating, I mean, Celeste's dad says, I have never had any contact with this guy and we haven't received any money from him or anyone in this family. The Hernandez family attorney states, I had the heartbreaking responsibility of informing the Rivas Hernandez family of the horrifying allegations in court that David Anthony Burke stabbed Celeste, stood by while she bled to death, used a chainsaw to cut off her limbs and bought a burn cage with the plan to incinerate evidence.

59:13Delivering the news was the most difficult thing I've had to do in 37 years as a lawyer. He states for the family, the Rivas Hernandez family is absolutely devastated by the findings contained in the medical examiner's report involving the horrible and gruesome death of their beloved daughter. Those findings have caused profound emotional pain for the family. They respectfully ask for your privacy, understanding, and patience as they process this information. There are no words to express the indescribable pain the family is experiencing right now. They still have bills to pay and jobs to go to every day.

59:42all they want is time to grieve and heal in another statement that's been released by the family they say we would like to thank the LAPD and DA's office for their hard work we'd also like to thank the people of Lake Elsinore for all their support Celeste was a beautiful strong girl who loved to sing and dance every Friday night was movie night and we spent wonderful times together we love her very much and she always told us that she loved us we miss her deeply and all we want is justice for Celeste some people don't like Celeste's family some people don't like the statements that they put out some people didn't like that specific statement writing why do you feel the need to mention that she always told you she loved you is this so no one thinks she hated you guys some people are saying it's almost like an admittance of guilt she told us she loved us so we were attentive and loving parents i do want to note that celeste was reported missing the second time the police did open an investigation into the family deputies interviewed everyone at celeste's family home and they found no evidence of child neglect so they concluded their investigation writing since they They were unable to locate Celeste.

1:00:42They were unable to determine if a crime had happened. Wait, this is during the time? Okay. And I mean, I think there could be a lot of factors. There's no evidence. There's TikTok repost. There's random statements from people who claim they were friends with Celeste. There's TikTok reposts that allegedly Celeste made in an account. and even that's really hard to verify where she might have liked things that insinuated that she had a rough home life but I think having a rough home life is leagues away from having neglectful parents that played some sort of role in not protecting you enough. I think in a perfect world every parent should protect their child in a way that they can't go missing that they cannot be groomed but that's a very perfect world and there could be a lot of factors of why they don't even feel comfortable going to the police.

1:01:40I think people have, some people have drawn the speculation that Celeste's family didn't really bother to continue bothering the police about Celeste going missing because they didn't care. I don't think that's the case. I mean, you're also talking about a time that's heavy with probably ICE presence. Immigration status could also play a role. Socioeconomic status definitely plays a role. I mean, she was missing for so many months and no one was, the police weren't really looking for her. So even if they had gone to the police every day, which we don't know if they did or did not, we don't know why the police weren't looking for her.

1:02:19Maybe they have already had dealt with the police and they know the police is not gonna look for Celeste because, I mean, they didn't. They didn't look for a girl who's missing from a socioeconomically not a stable background. I'm sure if this was a missing girl from the Hollywood Hills, they would have looked for her. I think there's a lot of nuance that maybe we need to factor into this case and I think out of everyone that the netizens should attack Celeste's family is probably last on that list London however has been a huge issue the preliminary brief has stated that Celeste traveled to London with David and traveling to London has been heavily just a point of contention because you cannot travel to a foreign country without your parents without some sort of form being signed usually every country has different rules she did have a passport card that was abandoned in santa barbara and found remember you know the isolated highway stretch so did her parents know that she was going to london was something forged was it not like well i guess that's been a huge point of contention because london is brought up we don't know if david had gone to london multiple times but recently he was talking about working on the withered album writing the album and he says that he went to london to write the album so just another london connection but he says quote i went to london with three of my friends and we made a song every day for two weeks i love london because of the gloomy aesthetic and the gloomy vibe and environment that london has there's barely any sun there and i love that because the music i make is really sad so in the two weeks i made a song every day and i came out with half the album and then i went back to houston for another two weeks and i made the rest of the project on my phone just off a piece you know that people sent me with some things that i made so if that's the case maybe this is the london trip in question and if that is also correct it seems like celeste may have helped write a lot of the music and that is bringing more lyrics up into discussion there is a whole interlude remember of celeste's voice what seems to be celeste's in this new album, the String Theory Interlude.

1:04:27Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So the dots seem to all be connecting here. I do think that with Celeste's family, we can't really be so rigid with our thinking. I think this is, out of all the places, to have some level of understanding. DA Hockman says, I had the chance to meet with some of the family members of Celeste, and their grief is uncalculable as to what happened to their daughter. What they have demanded, what we have assured them, is that the DA's office working with LAPD will give them the proof beyond a reasonable doubt on who killed their daughter, on how their daughter was killed, and bring that killer to justice.

1:04:59That killer that we have now charged is David Anthony Burke. But one person still writes, I have no sympathy for them. They had one job, which was to keep their kids safe. Another writes, They chose to be a parent, then refused to even do the bare minimum. It amazes me that there are people having sympathy for these parents. It's disrespectful to that little girl that no one was protecting her. The devil doesn't always need an advocate, so stop with the old, they tried BS. David is just one person. There will always be sick fucks like him around. It's up to the parents to watch and protect their child.

1:05:27That is why they need to be charged and made an example of, so maybe the next time a parent will think twice. A lot of people think that's a bit harsh with someone responding, I said it before and I'll say it again. Whatever Celeste's parents and family did or didn't do, they're facing the consequences of it now by having lost their daughter and having to face the murder. To me, that's punishment enough. You guys have a right to your own opinions, but as for me personally, I don't feel good about rubbing it in. And as for David's family, they're facing the consequences of their own too. Others write, they see their daughter hanging out in nice houses and getting taken care of.

1:05:57He had to have been buying her clothes, nails, or whatever most predators do. And they thought, wow, she's having fun and she's safe. It's easy to place blame. And yes, they should have done more. But also David shouldn't have murdered her and she would still be alive. I just think there's a lot more places to be angry about right now. Prosecutors have yet to decide if they want to pursue the death penalty. the defense has like I said requested the preliminary hearing be pushed back to June late June and as of right now he is in the LAPD 77th street jail he's in the same facility as Nick Reiner who is accused of killing his parents David is also being segregated away from the other inmates due to his fame and notoriety he gets a shower every other day he gets a phone call the same day that he showers so every other day so it's a really big day for him shower days a couple hours of recreation time a week by himself.

1:06:47I believe it's about three hours a week. He's not on self-exit watch, but he's alone. They think that something could potentially happen to him due to his status. There also could be more charges headed David's way just because, I mean, the CSAM, that could be a state charge. That could be a federal charge. Typically, it's the feds. And specifically for CSAM, I mean, Beth Silverman really emphasized it too. In the court hearing, she uses the words, He also had an iPhone and that iPhone, as it's been reviewed, contained a significant amount of child pornography. And under the law, child pornography cannot be retained without there being certain orders in place.

1:07:24I've consulted with our high tech division, which also handles cases involving child pornography. The protocol, unless the court chooses to structure something different. And she goes on to state that they're going to put it on a law enforcement device in the courthouse. But she's like really honing in on the CSAM. so that's why people think yes it's to emphasize how deplorable the evidence is that they found but also maybe there are extra charges coming his way but if those charges will follow i guess is another question and i guess the big question is what's going to happen at the preliminary hearing i don't think it's going to be explosive in the sense of i don't think they're going to bring in star witnesses and all these other people i mean i might be proven wrong i think a lot of it is going to be law enforcement so in preliminary hearings things are a little bit different so you can actually bring in law enforcement and they can testify on what would normally be considered hearsay in a trial so in a trial you can't sit there on the stand and say this person told me this interesting but in the preliminary hearing because it's a preliminary hearing a police officer can say his friend neo told me this that's an example you know when i was talking i interviewed this person and they told me this so hearsay is allowed in preliminary hearings when it comes from law enforcement officers interesting yeah so you really that's why a lot of preliminary hearings you have in smaller cases you'll have like one law enforcement officer who's like okay so i investigated this case this is what i was told by this person then i went here they told me this and then pretty much that's like the whole witness yeah yeah but it's gonna last a minute right like yes i mean judging by the way things are moving so beth silverman says she can get it done in like four to five days four to five days yes but that's not factoring in the defense also examining you know but also we don't know because she was also there was lots of scheduling happening she was like i already told my witnesses cancel your vacations and blair burke keeps changing the timeline so we're gonna hear some firsthand yeah we're i think we're going to get a lot of information i think that preliminary brief yeah i think we're gonna get a lot more information and i think a lot of the questions in these few episodes are gonna get answered in the preliminary hearing it's like just to hear that there's 40 terabytes of yeah like evidence i cannot imagine how much is how much they've gathered oh and another thing just to clarify some talk on reddit and online deputy da beth silverman stated that she plans to set a trial date within the next 60 days i have seen some people confusing that with saying that we're gonna go to trial in the next 60 days i think that's just setting a date yeah and that date is probably gonna be years from now that is if there is a trial i i mean i think the judge is obviously the preliminary hearing is going to go in favor of the prosecution there's going to be a trial but that's if david doesn't plead guilty yeah is that a possibility you think i don't think so i don't think the da is going to give him any sort of plea deal that he would like um another thing there's like politics involved so d.a hockman was recently elected and there's you know this is his career as with all da's and he definitely needs to prove himself he has some not great wins under his belt already some criticism under his belt so i mean this is a huge case i don't think they're gonna give him a good plea deal that he would take yeah and i just don't see him pleading guilty i mean i could be proven wrong but usually people like david don't plead guilty because i mean what would he get out of pleading guilty he'd rather probably just take his chances it's not like he cares about if he's going into debt paying for his attorney or his parents are going into debt paying for his attorney wow okay but yeah so i will keep you guys updated once the preliminary hearing starts and obviously with the future trial, when and if that occurs.

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