police, about six-feet tall, thin with glasses. three days later, genzler turned himself in. obviously he knew he stabbed someone but didn t know the extent of that wound. when he had learned that this person had died, that s when he contacted an attorney. genzler refed to tell police where the car was, and he also refused to give them the clothes he wore that night and the knife. what his story is, i don t know. he s never given us a statement. genzler looked very studious. he had the little glasses, tall, lanky guy. he did not look like someone you would expect to get in a street brawl, much less kill someone. but several eyewitnesses disagreed. op they have a special! so, what did you guys think of the test drive? i love the jetta. but what about a deal? terry, stop! it s quite alright.
version of events was significantly different. he said dusty harless instigated the fight by pulling him out of his car and wrestled him face down to the ground. he also said that scott davis, the so-called witness, was in fact an active participant. genzler insisted davis kicked him repeatedly, while dusty had him pinned down, but managed to get a knife out of his pocket to defend himself. he s thinking he s getting his ass kicked and he s in fear of his life and he blindly reaches back and stabs him. is it likely or unlikely? i really can t say. and that is what made the one stab wound into pretty much the center of the chest of dusty. a week after dusty s death, police found genzler s car parked in a neighborhood on the other side of the city. we were able to get dna from the steering wheel, from the gear shift and the turn signal,
did in fact see dusty harless in one brawl that she admitted. after she d been insulted in a bar, he took a guy out and beat him bad in the alley and she had heard of several other fights where he was always pretty much the winner. he s a good fighter, apparently. it was now coming out that i had not been completely truthful in my original testimonies. and the reason i had said that is because i didn t want to feed the defense any information that they would use against dusty in the case. from the beginning, david genzler described in specific detail how dusty held him to the ground. to see if this was possible, the defense consulted ned blass, a two-time national collegiate wrestling champion and member of the wrestling hall of fame. blass said that genzler s description was consistent with
genzler appealed his conviction, arguing he was denied his choice of counsel. the defendant s initial attorney, jerry blank, was ruled not to be able to represent him because of some technical issues. the court of appeals said that that denied mr. genzler the right to the counsel of his choice and reversed it on that ground. in preparing for the second trial, genzler s new defense team found something in dusty harless background that made genzler s claim of self-defense more believable. numerous witnesses came forward to say dusty harless had a reputation for starting fights. they brought people in that said my son was a street brawler. i don t know how they found them, but they did find some people that weren t really a dusty fan. in addition, toxicology tests showed dusty was legally intoxicated at the time of his
death with a 0.12 blood alcohol level. there were also traces of marijuana in his system. and the defense team discovered that sky flanders originally gave police a completely different version of events from what she testified to at trial. at one point dusty had him on the ground? yeah. i think that s when he stabbed him because dusty wouldn t let him up. sky flanders is interesting. she told police that she saw dusty in a wrestling hold, holding genzler and throwing him. but then she didn t see a lot else until she saw him bleeding. later she changed that story on the stand in the first trial and testified that it was genzler, who was the complete aggressor, coming out after him. sky also admitted that dusty instigated more than his share of fights. sky flanders did admit that she committed perjury, that he