Potential witnesses are generally barred from being in court during the trial but the judge allowed them. Sounds like more grounds for a defense appeal, as if they needed more.
Anyone know how about far along the prosecution is in their presentation of their side of the case and have they mostly already shot their “big guns” regarding witnesses and evidence?
The judge could have avoided the conflict between the two rules, by simply telling the prosecution to put the parents testimony first in the line up.