are. you can t argue a misstatement of the law. the state never told the jury this is my interpretation of the law until we objected. i think that what was explained in the parenthetical. but the state doesn t i will i will state it needs clarified that this is the argument based on the law that will be charged. and the law that will be charged. to make sure we re clear about the law being charged, there was a debate about this on friday. i m not going to reignite that debate in front of the panel. pardon me, we re fine with what the court s decision was on the contemporaneousness of it. the with it being flawed. just like the defense said the right to argue what escape means is escaping whatever this
0 there he goes. this is the white truck. he s still underneath here. here comes somebody to the truck. he s right there. here comes greg mcmichael-he comes around. he gets in. then mr. albenze starts walking down the street. truck pulls out. there goes his arm. there goes his arm. where is the truck? already pulled out. already pulled out and heading down the street. all right. should you trust the statements of travis mcmichael? well, let s go ahead and first take a look at this. he told you he s not going to chase or investigate someone who is armed, and yet all he talked about was, he kept reaching into his pants, kept reaching into his pocket. well, did you think he was armed or not? then what did he tell you? this is what i was thinking. mr. arbery may have run by. maybe matt had seen him. maybe he has broken in. maybe harry english is over at 220. i don t know. maybe ahmaud arbery was caught. maybe ahmaud arbery was trying to run from the police. these are all maybes. he doesn t
0 this arm on ahmaud arbery was 25 inches, this arm was 26 inches and the barrel of the shotgun is over 28 inches. do the math. did he hit him? he did he punch him? did he strike him, when the shotgun is like this? easy, do the math. this is what travis mcmichael did. there is no fear here. there is only anger. remember, it is the standard of reasonable beliefs that the force used is necessary. do you really believe he had no other choice but to use this shot gun? is that what you really believe? no other choice. what are the alternatives? well, the first alternative is don t start this. i ll tell you something, my husband, he always tells this to our three nephews, david, ben and sam. what he says is there is some rules for life. you know what those rules are. don t go looking for trouble. because you will find it. and it is not going to turn out the way you think it is. what he s really saying is, don t be that guy who starts the bar fight and goes, let a s go t in the parking lot. i
but in case we do get it ready, we ll bring that to you. essentially what he s on the stand, the ex-husband is on the stand, and we ve got fred tecce and we also have our other guest with us as well. they re really coming down hard on the ex-husband, and they re asking him, you know, did you, did you degrade your wife, did you mock your wife, did you do this, did you do that, did you place her phone number on craig s list advertising sex, they are now trying to paint the victim as the bad guy. fred? [laughter] it s like i ll let ashley tell you, but it s criminal defense 101, try to get the jury to look at everything else in the world except for the one most important fact which is this woman wanted to pay a man five grand to kill her husband, so she picked a guy who was a bad guy because, unfortunately or fortunately, rack buys, priest rabbis, priests and nuns don t kill people for money. what the criminal defense lawyer