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The State’s case against Kyle was nonsensical from start to finish. It was an oblique attack on the right of self-defense. A direct assault on civilian ownership and possession of firearms.
The core of this case, getting him to admit that at no point was ahmaud arbery armed, at no point did he say anything threatening. that really does seem to make it an uphill battle for the defense team. the defense team will have their closings today. unclear exactly how they will handle it. they have seemingly thrown everything at the wall. we've heard at times fairly outrageous comments from one of the defense attorneys. it will be interesting to see if there are any last-minute motions. and outside t courthouse, you can expect the vigil to continue on behalf of the family, as it has since t...
In georgia, even though there's plenty of evidence that the arbery defendants went to the trouble, got in their car and chased down ahmaud arbery, on the other hand, at the time, georgia had a very broad, liberal citizens arrest statute that has since been amended. but that law dated back to the mid-1860s. >> a citizens arrest for doing what? >> at the time georgia gave someone a privilege to go chase someone and arrest them and detain them if they believed that they were fleeing from a felony and that's why you see so much evidence in this case that the prosecution is putting in that there wa...
Exhibit 194, the night owl video. you can go ahead and take a look at 129. that's that close-up compressed sort of enhanced for coloration video that was produced, that shows the close-up of travis pulling that shotgun up. you can go ahead and take a look at state's exhibit 117. officer rash's video, you can also take a look at 124, the video from december 17th, 2019, and of course, you can always ask to see state's exhibit 315. the frame-by-frame if you want to see it. so how that works, you send a note to judge walmsley and you come into the courtroom. when you come into the courtroom, we do...
Observers' assessments. >> the prosecution goes first in closing arguments. if you could give them one piece of advice, what would it be? >> it would be to have taken a somewhat different approach than they have so far. in the outside world this case has been so much about racial animus and whether the defendants were racially motivated when they attacked and ultimately killed arbery. but the prosecution has made the defense here -- the decision here, excuse me, to put all of that aside. they did not push to introduce evidence that travis mcmichael used a racial slur after he shot ahmaud arber...