I don’t know how good they are, but I have seen folks commenting on the trial.
I have just been watching little bits of the trial. Seems clear that he is not guilty. Although I only saw bits and pieces, I never saw a clear outline and diagram of where everyone was in the river, when various actions took place, etc.
As far as I can tell he took his knife out and opened it while he was surrounded by the adult women and the boys. Pushed a woman back that had grabbed his arms previously and was in his face. After he pushed her back that is when he was grabbed by the throat, pushed down and fell in the water and then they started hitting him and holding him down.
After that he was able to get his arm free and swing his knife around trying to get free of the assault.
I have two questions.
The prosecutor says he lunged at the boys on the tubes after they showed a phone (after he said he was looking for a phone). Did they taunt him with it? Making him believe it was the lost phone? But even if he did lung at the tubes and hold onto them for a second, he then walks away looking for his googles. I don’t think the boys could claim self-defense after he walked away.
My second question - did any of the boys or women that attacked him see the knife out and felt that THEY were in peril, and claimed they pushed him down and attacked him in order to get him to drop the knife and remove the threat they thought he was to them?
From the laughing and taunting and yelling on the video, I don’t think the women or the boys felt threatened at all.
I think he stumbled into them.....as he said, he had sandals on and was walking on rocks and stones.
As for the knife, they didn’t even know he had the knife in his hand when he supposedly punched the bully girl with the same hand...right hand. The defense was brilliant.....hard to punch a girl with a knife in your hand and not cut her. Possible I guess but not probable.
We all know he just pushed her away to create distance as she was up in his face cursing, threatening and shouting for him to leave. His attorney was so good........”bullies like her don’t get to tell us where to go, that’s not how it works”