Good afternoon. Every time I think there has been a star witness — there’s someone who ups the ante. I am pretty confident no one will surpass the excellence of expert witness Dr. Martin Tobin, pulmonary and critical care doctor. The only way to present his bona fides and nimble presentation is to imagine a very benevolent god with universal knowledge and stunning recall taking the witness stand with a cotton grocers bag then answering questions with an Irish lilt without consulting notes. I’m unable to capture the morning other than to say, if I were Defense Attorney Nelson — I’d currently be on my second bottle of Jamesons. I can only direct you to the morning liveblog to get the best of it. I wish I could manage diary updates plus comments but I barely manage comments — and I’m more comfortable doing those.
Dr. Tobin’s charts and graphics which he had designed himself are remarkable. The most striking one showed the three cops at one moment in time on top of Mr. Floyd — vehicle removed. The graphic turned slowly 180 degrees. Just stunningly effective.
Dr. Tobin has excellent rapport with the jury, so much so, Nelson asked for a sidebar so he could object to Tobin asking the jury to use their own bodies to locate different spots on their necks. Judge advised the jury that they didn’t have to if they didn’t want. I’m guessing all couldn’t help themselves. Same with calculating your own breathing.
The afternoon should be gripping — well gripping in the way you watch someone you can’t stand because she is a horrible carbon footprint walk around court with the back of her skirt stuck in her panty hose after leaving the loo. So, that did happen. Think Kelly Ann Conway, Kayleigh McEnany, Ronna McDaniel, Ivanka Trump, Ann Coulter — too many to choose from.
Liveblog updates from gchaucer2 on the ongoing trial session are found in the comment thread.
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Previous posts in this series so far, starting the afternoon of Day Two.
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