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jmowreader

(50,561 posts)
Mon Oct 24, 2022, 10:32 PM Oct 2022

The defense has rested in the Darrell Brooks trial

Darrell Brooks is the individual who now stands trial in Waukesha, WI, for driving his red SUV, which now appears to actually be his mom's red SUV, through last year's Christmas parade. He killed six people and injured dozens of others.

So far: After the Sovereign Citizen defense and the Chewbacca defense didn't work for him, he's trying the Audi 5000 defense: he now claims the throttle body on his car malfunctioned and kept him from stopping. That didn't go over very well either: the prosecutor looked up the car's VIN and discovered there were no active recalls on it.

Tomorrow comes closing statements. After that, Judge Dorow will issue jury instructions - this is predicted to take at least a full day - and then the jury will recess for the five minutes it will take to find this asshole guilty on all charges, an hour to get pizzas delivered and eat them, and another hour to drink coffee so it doesn't look like they only deliberated for ten seconds on each charge.

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The defense has rested in the Darrell Brooks trial (Original Post) jmowreader Oct 2022 OP
I didn't catch the details, but apparently he tried to pull a "Oh, I can't hear you" gambit on the RockRaven Oct 2022 #1

RockRaven

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1. I didn't catch the details, but apparently he tried to pull a "Oh, I can't hear you" gambit on the
Mon Oct 24, 2022, 11:35 PM
Oct 2022

videoconference with the judge at one point in the trial, and the judge called him on it by deciding he had declined his opportunity to do whatever (after confirming with others who were in the room with him that they could hear the videoconference perfectly fine).

In a long episode of FAFO, it sounded like an especially FAFO moment.

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