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Been watching the courtroom and i understand there was some drama today. that they have now brought in the jury and the judge is instructing the jury. are they moving on? yeah. they re moving on. alex jones lawyer has objected to jury instructions they signed off on several days ago. the judge is completely defeated and over it with alex jones lawyers so they ve moved on to that and she is currently as we speak reading jury instructions to this jury. this morning they brought on a witness, the plaintiffs brought on a witness to talk about alex jones net worth which is in the hundreds of millions of dollars according to this witness. we really did not know anything about his net worth until this week when that phone you just brought up leaked that showed he made upwards of $1,800 a day sometimes in 2018. that probably went up. we also learned very quickly when he was taken off facebook and twitter and youtube he has said for years this has cost him so much business, has ruined his ....
adrienne broaddus has more from minneapolis. reporter: kate, good morning. court began promptly with the judge reading jury instructions, following those instructions, closing arguments, starting with the prosecution, who has to bear the burden of proof. prosecutors focusing in on potter s training, specifically the training with the taser. she became certified to use the taser back in 2002 and in order to continue carrying that taser she had to be recertified every year, in some cases, scoring perfect scores on her training. by contrast, the defense maintains this was a mistake. potter did not intend to pull her gun that day. she was reaching or thought she had pulled her taser, pointing back again to the body camera video where potter shouts, taser, taser, taser! poltder, as you all know, took the stand in her own defense on ....
That defendants are not required to testify. so in reference to this case i don t think it will necessarily make a difference and probably was the right decision in a case like this. jon: we see the judge in a live shot right now. he appears to be reading jury instructions. those can often be confusing for jurors. yeah, except this is a very straightforward, one count, involuntary manslaughter, jon. most of these jury instructions will be common stock jury instructions. both sides had to agree on specific words for involuntary manslaughter. defense to involuntary manslaughter. the judge apparently said, jon, each side will have 90 minutes to argue. which means, other than maybe having a break for lunch, this case probably will go to the jury sometime this afternoon pacific time. jon: the defense argument seemed to boil down to the fact that michael jackson liked his propofol so much he turned it on himself and may have overdosed himself ....