One of the holdups was because of covid, supposedly, and another hang up was because they had a hearing to just have it dismissed under the stand your ground law, but the judge said no. I also remember when he wanted more freedom than to just go to the store and church into his attorney's office and wanted to be able to at least walk around the neighborhood with his grandchildren and during the trial, it seems like they said he only had one grandchild.
Still waiting to see if he will testify because all of the defense witnesses have mainly been just side noise, a distraction.
His wife got caught in a couple of lies when she testified and I really wish the prosecuting attorneys would have gotten on her to make it more clear, but the experts feel the right thing was done because they didn't want to appear to be bullying his wife. Sad after the way the defense bullied Nicole Oulson.
His daughter is pretty and blonde and blue-eyed and white and all that is supposedly right with the world, but she is a chip off the old block. His defense is now basing around being old when he did it and feeling vulnerable and that his health was failing. In one breath she would talk about how he couldn't even get down on the floor and play with his grandchildren anymore and in the next breath she talked about how they had met up in Tennessee for vacation and he had driven him and his wife up there. Just before the shooting he had also driven to Ohio and back. Just because of the fact that he had to start riding a bicycle instead of going running at the age of 71 didn't seem like too much of a hardship.
I didn't get to see much of his son's testimony, but he and his dad had just recently gotten back from a hunting trip. Apparently he came in right around the time of the shooting and supposedly tried to render aid to Chad and he made the comment that he ordered the man who was going to assist him in what to do. That shows his mindset. And he is the one who was supposed to be in charge of the guns when Curtis Reeves went to court earlier to have his guns released and if they didn't feel they could give them back to him, they should just give them to his son? His son is also a police officer, but was off-duty and out of uniform so ordering people around is apparently the way their family rolls.
If this turns out to be a Kyle Rittenhouse verdict and he is set free, I will have lost all faith in our judicial system. At least Georgia got it right in their recent situation.
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