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Originally Posted by JoshGirls Josh
all the way up to declining to testify. that is guilty to me.
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Did he "decline" to testify???
How do you know he didn't want to testify? He certainly talked to the cops (remember, he was the one who called them in the first place). And he went back and explained the entire sequence of events with the cops on VIDEO right after it happened with no attorney present.
He didn't even have an attorney until the media stirred up race (they probably thought he was white and didn't realize he was Hispanic at the time).
My guess is that the defense attorneys saw no reason to put him on the stand. Why do that and let the prosecution try to make him look bad?
The goal is to WIN the trial. Not lose it by doing something dumb.
And putting GZ on the stand (or ANY defendant) is dumb because it allows the prosecutor to pick you apart. And trust me...a good lawyer WILL pick you apart even if you are innocent as a baby.
Didn't anybody here ever watch Matlock or Perry Mason on T.V.?
