The defense did a good job on the closing statements. The prosecutor of course pointed out other aspects that made me question whether Miu’s actions were entirely self defense. The prosecutor made it sound like after the initial attack on Miu and him slashing and stabbing his attackers in order to get away, Miu left the immediate area and then returned to knife another guy (maybe the guy taking the video?).
I have not watched the entire trial.
I need to search and see if anybody drew a map of the site and a timeline reconstruction of events as it is pretty confusing. The defense mentioned upstream and downstream a few times, but I couldn’t tell where the boys were in relationship to Miu all the time.
Of course it isn’t like a traffic wreck where they can map out the skid marks and stuff, but I’m very spacial oriented so that would help me. Hmm - without a sketch map and timeline, I think me personally would have to say there was a reasonable doubt that he intended to kill everyone that was injured, or the teen that was killed.
In the middle of watching the boy (Dante) that Miu stabbed where the defense said Miu left and then returned. Miu had defended himself against the others and was standing again after being held under the water and punched.
Dante had been pushed away by another boy who told Dante to “stop it” (presumably yelling, maybe pushing or punching). Dante said his back was towards the melee and then he heard screaming. Dante turned around and said that Miu was 6 feet away from him and Miu approached him and stabbed him once.
To me, that doesn’t sound like Miu leaving and returning and seeking out Dante in order to stab him like the prosecutor’s closing arguments said. I haven’t heard anything else about it, but if I was Miu I might think “Oh - geez, that guy is turning around to attack me again.” And of course I am just taking Dante’s word that Miu approached him and not the other way around.
“I need to search and see if anybody drew a map of the site and a timeline reconstruction of events as it is pretty confusing.”
That’s what I was thinking. There were a lot of dancers on the dance floor, and it was very confusing...especially since a lot of the video was shot in vertical mode. Too much is left out on the right and left. A map (to scale) would’ve been helpful.