A 10 day trial? That's what you get with multi-millionaire defendants. Here in Maine, they'd try to squeeze this into a day, haha.

It's interesting that Arizona has eight person juries in felony cases. It makes it much easier to reach a guilty verdict.

So there were 5 total involved in the alleged assault, 2 pleaded guilty, 2 (the Morris's) are on trial, what about the 5th one?  Is it normal to have 2 on trial together like this?  Does anyone understand what their defense is going to be?

I am not condoning this sort of vigilante justice but this seems like a really dumb thing to be in criminal court.  You know all the guy Hood wants is some money.  Why isn't this a civil case?  Why would the DA bother with this case.  There have to be more meaningful cases they could be putting their resources towards.

"None of the allegations raised by the Defendants amount to clearly exculpatory evidence omitted by the prosecution's presentation to the grand jury," Sinclair wrote in her ruling. "The precise geographic location of part of the assault, what some witnesses saw while others did not, and differing versions of the assault from the victim and other witnesses, are not clearly exculpatory evidence that would affect the grand jury's probable cause determination. The grand jury was told that a number of witnesses observed little to nothing of any portion of the assault, as requested by the Defendants. The grand jury was told that the victim indicated that he could not say for sure if Markieff Morris was hitting or kicking him. The fact that specific photographs or line by line statements of each witness interview were not presented to the grand jury does not mean that the presentation itself was prejudicially misleading."

According to the Republic, the twins’ attorneys contend a witness told police he saw the Morris brothers in a parking lot “at least 100 yards away from the fracas,” and the testimony wasn’t shared with the grand jury. The motion also said prosecutors failed to mention Hood changed his version of the incident.

Quote from: Roy H. on September 14, 2017, 07:20:57 AM

A 10 day trial? That's what you get with multi-millionaire defendants. Here in Maine, they'd try to squeeze this into a day, haha.

It's interesting that Arizona has eight person juries in felony cases. It makes it much easier to reach a guilty verdict.

I was a juror on a high profile murder case and it didn't take 10 days.

Quote from: Vermont Green on September 14, 2017, 08:42:40 AM

So there were 5 total involved in the alleged assault, 2 pleaded guilty, 2 (the Morris's) are on trial, what about the 5th one?  Is it normal to have 2 on trial together like this?  Does anyone understand what their defense is going to be?

I am not condoning this sort of vigilante justice but this seems like a really dumb thing to be in criminal court.  You know all the guy Hood wants is some money.  Why isn't this a civil case?  Why would the DA bother with this case.  There have to be more meaningful cases they could be putting their resources towards.

The defense will probably be similar to what they raised in a prior motion:

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"None of the allegations raised by the Defendants amount to clearly exculpatory evidence omitted by the prosecution's presentation to the grand jury," Sinclair wrote in her ruling. "The precise geographic location of part of the assault, what some witnesses saw while others did not, and differing versions of the assault from the victim and other witnesses, are not clearly exculpatory evidence that would affect the grand jury's probable cause determination. The grand jury was told that a number of witnesses observed little to nothing of any portion of the assault, as requested by the Defendants. The grand jury was told that the victim indicated that he could not say for sure if Markieff Morris was hitting or kicking him. The fact that specific photographs or line by line statements of each witness interview were not presented to the grand jury does not mean that the presentation itself was prejudicially misleading."

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According to the Republic, the twins’ attorneys contend a witness told police he saw the Morris brothers in a parking lot “at least 100 yards away from the fracas,” and the testimony wasn’t shared with the grand jury. The motion also said prosecutors failed to mention Hood changed his version of the incident.

So, they'll try to create reasonable doubt based upon witnesses not agreeing on what happened, etc.

How they're going to bleed 70 - 80 hours of court time out of this, I have no idea.