PROSECUTION PORTRAYS DALLY AS A SCHEMER.Byline: Don Holland Daily News Staff Writer Distilling six weeks of testimony, prosecutors in the Michael Dally murder trial described him Wednesday as a depraved de·praved adj. Morally corrupt; perverted. de·prav  ed·ly adv. womanizer wom·an·ize v. woman·ized, woman·iz·ing, woman·iz·es v.intr. To pursue women lecherously. v.tr. To give female characteristics to; feminize. who conspired to kill his wife so he could pursue his obsessions with sex and drugs  This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.Please help recruit one or [ improve this article] yourself. See the talk page for details. without a costly divorce. During her closing argument, Deputy District Attorney Lela Henke-Dobroth told the nine-man, three-woman jury that Dally felt trapped in his marriage ``like a caged animal.'' The prosecutor also recounted a fight between Sherri and Michael Dally, when he threatened to take their two young sons with him if he left her. His wife retorted `` `Over my dead body, Michael Dally,' '' Henke-Dobroth said. ``And that came to pass, and that's why we're here.'' Dally, a former supermarket clerk from Ventura, is charged with murder for financial gain, kidnapping kidnapping, in law, the taking away of a person by force, threat, or deceit, with intent to cause him to be detained against his will. Kidnapping may be done for ransom or for political or other purposes. and conspiracy in his wife's brutal 1996 slaying. If he is convicted of these charges, prosecutors have said they will pursue the death penalty. His lover, Diana Haun, was convicted of those charges last year and is serving life in prison. Earlier this week, the judge ruled that the jury may also consider a lesser charge of being an accessory after the fact, if the panel finds that Dally helped Haun cover up the murder. During the first day of closing arguments, Henke-Dobroth recounted how one of Dally's former lovers, Sallie Lowe, testified that the defendant tried to manipulate her into killing his wife in 1991. ``He wanted the same thing from Diana Haun that he wanted from Sallie Lowe and didn't get,'' said the prosecutor. ``Make the body disappear and you won't be prosecuted. That's what he told Sallie Lowe.'' Lowe's testimony bears too many similarities to what happened to Sherri Dally for it simply to be a coincidence, said Henke-Dobroth. Prosecutors also presented a time line showing a series of rendezvous See Bonjour and TIB/Rendezvous. 1. rendezvous - In Ada, the method of synchronising the activity of different tasks. 2. rendezvous - Query language, close to natural English. ["Seven Steps to Rendezvous with the Casual User", E. between Haun and Dally in the hours leading up to Sherri Dally's abduction Abduction Balfour, David expecting inheritance, kidnapped by uncle. [Br. Lit.: Kidnapped] Bertram, Henry kidnapped at age five; taken from Scotland. [Br. Lit. and murder. Without information from Michael Dally, how would Haun have known to arm herself with an ax, don a disguise and wait in a shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into parking lot to accost Sherri Dally, the prosecutor asked. ``The only person that Sherri Dally and Diana Haun had in common that could give that information is that man right there, Michael Dally,'' said Henke-Dobroth. While police investigated the case, Dally repeatedly gave investigators false or misleading information and bogus leads to throw police off-track, the prosecution said. The defense says the prosecution's case is entirely built on circumstantial evidence circumstantial evidence In law, evidence that is drawn not from direct observation of a fact at issue but from events or circumstances that surround it. If a witness arrives at a crime scene seconds after hearing a gunshot to find someone standing over a corpse and holding a and that Haun acted alone. Closing arguments for the defense are expected to last most of today. The jury may receive the case as early as Friday. |
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