Your regular posts on this trial have been excellent. Thanks for staying with it. I’m hoping this “no defense defense” isn’t some ploy to obtain a mistrial.
It's probably designed to try to get a hung jury. There's no way there will be an acquittal. Agnifilo has made a half dozen or so motions for mistrial or dismissal.
Could be Raniere is setting up for an inevitable appeal. Lack of counsel? Dunno.
Agnifilo may be getting tired of it all, as Little J says. He might also be distracted due to his own legal troubles related to the indictment of Mark Geragos. Geragos' daughter, Teny, is on Raniere's team, along with former Albany prosecutor and all around sleazy defense attorney, DerOhannessian (pronounced "dare-Oh-Han-nexx-ee-an" - no kidding).
What I'm really expecting is some fireworks from the spin-off investigations in EDNY and NDNY, not to mention IRS, DHS, etc.