Robert Runcie is seeking for his perjury charge to be thrown out, with an attorney for the outgoing Broward County Public Schools superintendent arguing in court Wednesday that prosecutors haven’t specified what he is accused of lying about to a grand jury.
they ll have to see. what was interesting was the way this question was drafted. after all that we ve been through is essentially one yellow legal pad that the judge hands the defense and prosecution. you have rich mantei and mark o mara both hovering over that pad and both writing in different hands a little bit of the question. it goes to the judge. she reviews it, reads it to the court, makes sure that george zimmerman understands it then she rewrites it in her own handwriting because she was afraid that the jurors might be confused by two styles of handwriting and that s what went back. so all of this is basically over a very short sentence structure, but that could have very crucial meaning and we wait to find out if the jury is going to continue to deliberate. they asked for dinner. they re eating it now. we just have to wait. yeah, and marty, i think it s important also to point out that the judge said, listen, i want
if he wants to adlib the closing argument, terrific, but i know he doesn t want to miss anything. he may be making a few notes to follow, but he has not been present in these arguments today. the defense by the way has been able to really tear some of the state s witnesses right up. right in front of a live audience. they have been discrediting them or doing a pretty good job of turning the arguments around to suit them although you will see other people say not at all. those witnesses were strong for the prosecution. did the prosecution team of bernie de la rionda and john guy in the center of the screen and rich mantei, did they do a good job in presenting the case and picking witnesses and getting the narrative out or did the witnesses end up boosting the case for the other side, the defense? have a listen to what don west was able to do with what was really considered to be their start witness, the prosecution s star witness, a friend of trayvon martin, rachel jeantel and her testi
being perpetrated upon the defendant. is that correct? i m not clear what mr. mantei is referring to now. if you were to look at the state s suggested instruction, the third paragraph down, we re talking about the third and fourth paragraph, it requires for the justifiable use of deadly force, for the for the defendant to prevent imminent bodily death or imminent death or great bodily harm to himself while an attempt to commit some type of enumerated defense upon him. we re not asking for that instruction. we don t think that it s the issue in our case. i ve drafted an instruction i think specifically addresses the legal issue before the jury and properly sets out the standard that the jury should apply. let me just make sure i have this correct. that the defense is not wanting
the court didn t address that argument in the joa. and i don t know if the court intends to draft an order specifying why the state, in the court s opinion, had met it s burden. however, what mr. mantei just said isn t the law. not even close to the law. and it s not factually support ed by the witnesses that he claims now he can use to support this notion of provocation. celine bahador, if the court will recall, for the first time ever, came up with this story in court there was some sort of vague movement from left to right, which would suggest in some sort of vague way that people, not necessarily trayvon martin or george zimmerman, but somehow people she thinks might have moved in a direction toward this in the direction of and we know where her house is. it s the third one down.