Opening statements are not evidence. There is nothing more devastating for a attorney, who is hyperbolic and dishonest as to where the evidence will lead, as when the other side uses your opening to piecemeal humiliate and destroy your opening in closing argument once the evidence has been presented.
That prosecutor best hope he can prove his opening. After his bad start today, he has a tough hill to climb.
Bob I thought the prosecutor put himself on a pretty high pedestal too. However the defense attorney made some statements that made me go "huh"? Almost like he was trying to spin it as an accidental discharge and not self defense
Well I've thought of this as a justifiable homicide all along. But the defense's opening with a knock-knock joke couldn't have been more insensitive than it was. That will stick with the bleeding heart women on that jury.
What an absolute @ss of an attorney! "Idiot' puts it mildly.
