Who could have imagined?

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(12-04-2020, 01:39 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I enjoy asking these questions because your non-answer never fails to amuse.  Say you were the defense attorney for one of these officers and your statement above was The People's argument against your client.  What would be your defense of your client?

I always give clear answers to your questions.  You are the one who refuses to answer questions.

I suppose the only defense would be that my client was just following the orders of the training officer.

Some people have tried to argue that he died because of the drugs in his system.  I might try to use something like that, but there have been two autopsies and both attribute the cause of death to "law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression".  

The one thing I would not try to argue is that no "reasonable person" would think that a man being choked and unable to breath would die.  Everyone who saw it knew he was dying.  And they were 100% correct.  It would be an insult to the intelligence of the jury to to try and make that argument.  The jury is not going to be a blindly biased as you and your law enforcement friends.