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...shooting started. More than a case lost, however, the trial was won. Defense attorneys had deftly kept their clients from testifying to the grand jury, depriving the prosecution of testimony to mull over until the witnesses actually got to the stand. Carroll's testimony dovetailed with Judge Joseph Teresi's four-hour instruction to the jury of seven white men, four black women and one white woman. He told them they must acquit a defendant if they believed he reasonably but mistakenly thought he had to use deadly force in response to a threat. After 21 hours of actual deliberation...
Ironically, the sense of unease between the police and the citizens of Soundview that was so evident Friday night and so much a characteristic of that community did not much permeate the proceedings inside the courtroom. That, White says, presented a serious problem for the prosecution. Judge Joseph Teresi's strict guidelines and businesslike pace kept the district attorney's office from presenting evidence explicating the dynamic between the street crime unit and the citizens they were charged with protecting - a discussion that might have touched on the racially charged aspects of this case. "We can say with a great...
From the first day of proceedings, Judge Joseph Teresi quickly put that fear to rest. Teresi, an affable but extraordinarily strict presence in the courtroom, does not suffer fools - or ringing cell phones, which he confiscates - gladly. He is widely appreciated by reporters covering the trial, in large part because he refuses to entertain the attorneys' urge to hear themselves speak, and while he considers every motion carefully, the trial is moving along at whiplash speed. In a little more than two weeks, the prosecution has presented its entire case and all four accused officers have taken the stand...
...could see to the inside door in the vestibule from his seat in the parked car.) As one reporter covering the trial muttered to another during a recess, "Boss did better under cross than he did under direct." This extraordinarily docile prosecution may be due in part to Judge Teresi's stern, preemptive warnings against taking an aggressive tone with the witnesses, but at this point the district attorney's office seems strangely lacking in prosecutorial fire...
...This proposal, which was greeted with relief by the officers' families and general approval from the legal community, leaves the door wide open for Carroll to take the brunt of the blame while allowing the other three officers to escape with little more than harsh reprimands. On Thursday, Judge Teresi granted the request...