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hammering of his brain by the drugs. it was drug-induced violence, the doctor told the jury. drug-induced murder. back in the courtroom, angie listened to this. and upset, would not be quite the right word. it was laughable almost. and just that you can how much money they had to spend to find this guy who s going to say exactly what the defense wants. him to say. were you afraid the jury would buy it? of course, you re always a little afraid cause it s scary to think that he could potentially get off with an insanity plea. and the more he talked, the more it was it was frustrating to sit there and listen to him. you walk into somebody s bedroom with an assault rifle.
so they re expecting to hear some real dirt on rick gates. and if they ve already heard it all already, if the defense questioning just sounds like it s repeating what the prosecutor already said, it really takes a lot of the thunder out of it. and that s why prosecutors do it. we called it fronting. and that s what prosecutors do all the time. jennifer, do you agree fronting works? oh, absolutely, absolutely. because, you know, you got to get it all out there. you don t want any surprises on cross. they ll beat him up for a while about you re a liar, you re a criminal, blah, blah, blah. but they ve heard it all before. at some point, if they get too aggressive, then the jury starts to feel sorry for your cooperator. and that s really the last thing the defense wants. so they have to be a little careful with that. renato, what do you think gates is going to talk about tomorrow? he is back on the stand tomorrow. he wasn t really on the stand for all that long, a couple of hours to
questioning just sounds like it s repeating what the prosecutor already said, it really takes a lot of the thunder out of it. and that s why prosecutors do it. we called it fronting. and that s what prosecutors do all the time. jennifer, do you agree fronting works? oh, absolutely, absolutely. because, you know, you got to get it all out there. you don t want any surprises on cross. they ll beat him up for a while about you re a liar, you re a criminal, blah, blah, blah. but they ve heard it all before. at some point, if they get too aggressive, then the jury starts to feel sorry for your cooperator. and that s really the last thing the defense wants. so they have to be a little careful with that. renato, what do you think gates is going to talk about tomorrow? he is back on the stand tomorrow. he wasn t really on the stand for all that long, a couple of hours today. what do you think we can expect? i think the prosecution is going to walk through all of their evidence with gat
yeah, it was during testimony from one of the witnesses where the prosecutors were asking questions related to rick gates. i think in an effort to move along, the judge said, well, you re going to have rick gates here testifying, so why don t we just move along here. when rick gates comes in, you can ask him these questions. the prosecutor, i think without thinking, just quickly said, well, we may or may not call him. certainly that signaled to a lot of the reporters in the room, well, whoa, this is the first time we re hearing that gates may not be coming in. as you said this morning, i think seeing some of the news reports, the prosecutors came in and wanted to make it very clear to the judge and to the defense team, yeah, we do intend to call rick gates, and that could happen, as you said, tomorrow, as early as tomorrow or monday. and gates of course had come under some pretty withering criticism, this idea that he might not be such a reliable witness. yeah, certainly i think