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Sean Carroll may have done his fellow defendants a disservice when he broke down on the witness stand Monday; his emotional testimony provided a standard of grief that the other officers couldn't quite live up to. On Tuesday, Kenneth Boss and Richard Murphy took the stand, and their composure - at least in comparison to Carroll's near breakdown - made them seem almost icily calm...
...Boss, who was driving the unmarked car down Wheeler Avenue the night Diallo was shot, ran through identical accounts of the incident under direct questioning and under cross-examination. His testimony had a smooth, almost scripted cadence to it - it was hard to remember he wasn't acting in a mercilessly rehearsed play. Boss, 28, recounted his partners getting out of the car to question Diallo. Moments later, Boss heard gunshots, and ran toward steps leading to the vestibule, just as McMellon, as Boss put it, "came flying off that top step, landing on the ground. I thought...
...When Boss reached McMellon again, he asked him, "Where are you hit?" McMellon responded, "I'm not hit." Was he surprised by that response, his lawyer asked Boss. "Yes, yes I was." Boss climbed back up to the vestibule, and approached Diallo. "I saw what should have been a gun was a wallet," he said. "It was on the tips of his fingers, outstretched. I yelled, 'Where's the f---ing gun?'" Then, he says, he ran, trying to figure out where he was, to get an address, so he could radio for help. The defense played the tape...
Richard Murphy, 27, took the stand after Boss stepped down, and he climbed into the witness box with the demeanor of a man who wants nothing more than to be somewhere else. Young, nervous and not as sure of himself as Boss, Murphy was the fourth and final cop to testify, and his account seemed almost an afterthought - it served mainly to emphasize his own peripheral role in the shooting: He never entered the vestibule, and his actions were far more reactive and passive than those of his fellow officers...
...magic in a shining Boston debut. And shining brightest of all is Judith Light, starring as the tough literature professor diagnosed with ovarian cancer, Dr. Vivian Bearing. Ms. Light earned national fame in the '80s with her portrayal of Angela Bower on the hit comedy series "Who's the Boss." Having undergone a remarkable transformation for her role in Wit, Light is now barely recognizable. Her shorn head, considerable weight loss and hollowed eyes here stand in stark contrast to the big-haired, gaudy TV character...