It’s gotten to be a blur by this point.
But briefly…
The prosecutor continued to cross examine Dr. Hasson, who was the psychologist who testified Wednesday afternoon.
When they finished that, the prosecutor called his own expert witness, another psychologist who seems to have arrived by consensus at either the name Mr. Mustache or Handlebars here on the BB. Or maybe Dr. Mustache, if you really wanted to be correct about it.
Mr. Mustache spent, no joke, probably 20 minutes running down his résumé after he sat down. It might have been even more than that. I did not actually time it, and eventually I fast forwarded over some of it. But seriously, he talked for an unbelievably long time about his own qualifications, which he seemed to think were very impressive.
Eventually, long after everyone’s eyes glazed over, the prosecutor finally started asking him questions. His goal seemed to be to discredit the opinions and findings of the two defense expert witnesses, of course, and then explain why MB did not fit the definition of legally insane, although I’m sure there’s a more complicated way to say that.
Interestingly, one of his points was that because everybody else on the farm was also very afraid of LK and RG, that meant MB was not insane to think the same thing. Which sounded to me a lot like even more evidence of a legit case of self-defense for MB.
When Mr. Mustache was finally finished, the defense attorney called Dr. Hasson back to rebut the rebuttal witness, although again I’m sure there’s a better way to say that. Dr. Hasson said that his own testing methods were perfectly valid, no matter what Mr. Mustache said about it. And he said that some of Mr. Mustache’s statements about the test methods were “a joke.”
Those were the last witnesses, so unfortunately it looks like we will not get to see enough Olympians in the courtroom to comprise a full team.
The jury is off tomorrow while the judge and the lawyers discuss all the legal details, so I would imagine there will also be no live stream of that event.
Monday morning at 9:00 AM they will start the summations, etc, and after that, the case will go to the jury.
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