His defense attorney is weak & didn't do a good job at all in his summation.
He had a great opportunity to make this about the bigger case of self defense in general............all he really had to do was to ask "if this wasn't self defense, then what is?" & also to hammer on the prosecution for absolutely not proving that it was not self defense, beyond any reasonable doubt. He should have really hammered on reasonable doubt.
Sadly, he did neither.
If Kyle is convicted, then the use of self defense in virtually any scenario will completely disappear.................you will have to be beaten to the brink of death & still not be allowed to use deadly force.
It really has pretty much come down to this.
I have to believe that this is now a hung jury, which will leave the door open to re-trying him..............at least some of the jurors are afraid to acquit for fear of repercussions, almost beyond a doubt.
