Los Gatos trial testimony focuses on web searches done on suspect's laptop - San Jose Mercury News

Los Gatos trial testimony focuses on web searches done on suspect's laptop - San Jose Mercury News: "One night, it appeared the lovelorn Paul Garcia was searching the Internet for 'private investigators San Jose' and 'cheating spouses infidelity,' and three days later he was looking up 'How to make a Gemini woman fall in love.'
Whether Garcia, who owned a Los Gatos bar and restaurant, was so obsessed with bartender and 'Gemini' Tessa Donnelly that he arranged the killing of the other man she was seeing, or whether he was just confused about her and had nothing to do with it, will be up to the jury to decide.
But on Monday, in the fifth week of Garcia's love-triangle, murder-for-hire trial, prosecutor Jeff Rosen hoped that the testimony he presented from a computer analyst and a Los Gatos detective who analyzed Garcia's laptop shows Garcia masterminded the killing of his romantic rival, Mark Achilli. Garcia purchased Mountain Charley's Saloon and the 180 Restaurant and Bar in September 2007, seven months before Achilli was killed.
San Jose Police Sgt. Alan Lee, who works for the Silicon Valley Regional Computer Forensic Lab, testified Monday that he couldn't say whether Garcia was actually the person doing the searches on that Jan. 7, 2008 night but that the searches came from Garcia's personal, password-protected account. A witness last week testified he was with Garcia in early January -- two months before the killing -- when he saw Garcia look up private investigators, cheating spouses and GPS tracking devices on the Internet."