did or didn t take the stand. he has decades worth of criminal baggage, alleged to be a mob criminal. i think the prosecution would have been salivating at the opportunity to cross-examine him. can you see him trying to explain away 19 murders. but he likes to top, stood up in court and said yous didn t give me fair trial, and he said they wouldn t let me talk. is that potential for appeal? him making the statement it s involuntary is a sham. his attorneys certainly advised him its his constitutional decision to take the stand. the judge advised him of that. he didn t want to take he stand and that s obvious. he might be just saying this to create a circumstance cause atmosphere or set up some time type of appellate issue pause the evidence is so overwhelming against this guy. trace: had to love the pictures in court that made him seem like this sweet guy.
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in rakes ice coffee, drove around for several hours with rakes in his car, and then dumped his body in a remote location. we re told the office of chief medical examiner has not yet completed all the tox tolling tests as needed to determine the cause of death. a jogger found the body of steven rakes on july 17th in a wooded area in lincoln, massachusetts, west of boston. there were no visible signs of trauma. he had no identification. no cell phone, and no wallet. but he was poisoned we cyanide in his iced coffee. now on to the trial for whitey bull. the reputed mob boss, back in court today and revealed he will not testify in his own defense after his lawyers rested their case. bulger told the judge, withouts the jury present, that the decision was involuntary. bulger also told the judge and this is a quote i didn t get a fair trial, and this is a sham. and do what yous wont with me.
the 83-year-old was speaking, the widow of the man he is accused of murdering yelled, you re a coward and here s what the widow and the alleged victim s soon had to say son has to say after the court proceedings. first claims he has immunity, which he thinks gives him the right to kill all these people, and not only he blames an unfair trial. going to take a lot of secrets to the grave with him. he is the only one who knows how high up in the fbi the corruption goes. the prosecutors charged that bulger participated in nearly 20 years in the 7s and 8s as a lead are of boston s winter hill gang. terrifying boston for decades. he tide not a testify, says it was involuntary because he did not get a fair trial. does that hurt his defense? i don t think it would have made any bit of difference if he
administration, if be just pull out of iraq and afghanistan and declare the war on terror over, ask congress to rescind the authority for the war, that will tame our adversaries, whether it s al qaeda or the muss almost brotherhood. apparently not. does it all circle back to benghazi. al qaeda wouldn t go after them. is there some where in the ranks saying that they didn t go after us so maybe we strike again? that s right. and one of the people that believed to be involved in the terrorist attack spoke to a u.s. news organization and said i ve never been contacted by the fbi so al qaeda thinks we re back pre9/11 and they can act with impunity and we may send up a cruise missile but not a serious strategy to defeat lahmists. do you predict more? we re on the defensive and you ll see more of this. christian whiteon, good of you, thank. to texas now, and on the eve of the trial of the accused fort