Thursday, September 3, 2009

Stinson Trial Has Opening Statements


"Barbaric" or "nonsense..."
Take your pick... those are the two points-of-view in the first day of the Jason Stinson case arguments...
((Stinson's wife, Monica-pictured, was in the media room, thanks Matt Stone/Courier-Journal))

Jason Riley of the Louisville Courier-Journal gets to sit through this one...

Commonwealth attorney Leland Hulbert:
“When he took his last steps on the field, Max was still doing what Coach told him to do — running... He ignored him, never got within 10 feet of him.”

Defense attorney Brian Butler:
“It was the most exaggerated account of this you will ever hear,” he told jurors, calling the prosecution of Stinson a “runaway” train that has been mishandled from the beginning, spurred in large part by exaggerated media reports and overeager prosecutors. “This has been nothing but a witch hunt by these people,” Butler said, pointing at the prosecution’s table.

Fox41's Stephon Johnson was in the courtroom and tackled the idea of the jury pool- composed of 5 women and ten men...

Catch live coverage of the trial here, thanks to the Louisville Courier-Journal
Here's the 911 call to Louisville EMS

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