Prosecutor: "You don't know, as you are sitting here today, what Mr. Rosenbaum was thinking, do you?"
Richard McGinniss: "Do you mean at the time of the shooting?"
Prosecutor: "Yes".... "Or at any time in his life." You have no idea...what Mr. Rosenbaum was ever thinking"
Richard McGinniss: "I never exchanged words with him, if that's what your question is."
Prosecutor: "So your interpretation of what he was trying to do, or intending to do, or anything along those lines was complete guess work...Isn't it?"
Richard McGinniss: "...Well, he said 'fuck you' and then reached for [his] weapon."
BOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!* This has to be the greatest reply I've heard in such a long time.
Well, he said 'fuck you' and then reached for [his] weapon."
You can't make this shit up. It is so fantastic.
Well we have this thing, the 5th amendment, that prevents you from being compelled to testify against yourself.
Prosecutor usually wouldn't call defendant as a witness because they can just not answer any questions and then the defense could ask them whatever questions they wanted to help their case.