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COMMENTARY: I’ve covered trials for more than 30 years now, and I’ve never seen anything like the Lynn and Lindsey Maxwell trial.

I’ve sat through high-profile trials — Delbert Ward, Laurie Kellogg and Shirley Kinge come to mind — and more routine court appearances, motions hearings and sentencings than I can count.

This trial beats them all.

I’ve got a notebook full of leftover scraps from this trial that I think might show why I think this was so unusual. […]

A collection of photos from the trial of Lynn and Lindsey Maxwell.

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Bryan Belrad said his statements to police about the death of stepsister Erin Maxwell and the conditions in her home were inaccurate.

Belrad’s claim is nearly identical to the claim of Lynn Maxwell.  Both said there were things in the statements given to police that were not true or were exaggerations. […]

Maxwell was pressed about the statements she gave to police on August 30, the day after Erin died, and on September 11.

Maxwell has said in court that Erin “could have pushed on the hinge side of the door and it would have come right off.”  Prosecutor Mark Moody asked her why that wasn’t in the statement she gave to police, which she reviewed and then signed. […]

The firefighter who tried to save Erin Maxwell’s life described a home so foul that she ran outside and threw up, then went home and asked her husband to burn her clothes.

Debra Denery, president of the Palermo Fire Department, was the key witness on Saturday in the trial of Lynn and Lindsey Maxwell, Erin’s parents, who are not charged in Erin’s death but with misdemeanor counts of child endangerment for the conditions of the house Erin lived in.  Erin’s step-brother, Alan Jones, will be tried in September for what police say was Erin’s sexual assault and murder. […]