Overview
- At the 21st session on Friday the defense formally attacked key timepoints in the prosecution's reconstruction and filed requests for fresh technical checks such as a witness car movement profile and a re-examination of cell‑tower data.
- The court temporarily set those defense requests aside and told the prosecution and other parties to submit written responses ahead of the next hearing in roughly two weeks.
- Family and social‑service witnesses, including the victim's maternal grandmother, gave emotional and at times inconsistent testimony that the defense highlighted to question parts of the alleged timeline and the suggested motive tied to the defendant's relationship with the boy's father.
- The prosecution's case remains built on a chain of circumstantial evidence — phone records, photos and witness statements — while the defendant remains in pretrial detention and is scheduled to testify personally for the first time on August 24.
- The trial will continue into September with the court's upcoming rulings on the contested evidence likely to shape whether the defense can undercut the prosecution's chronology and motive reconstruction.