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Jury is back in court, defense has just rested its case.
Judge is now reviewing jury instructions, Stauch is still reading something on a laptop as Werner goes through the instructions.
Jury instructions complete, quick break and then we are moving on to closing arguments.
Prosecution closing argument underway, Dave Young will be presenting.
In a homicide case, "you spend a lot of time talking about the defendant… I want to come back to Gannon," Young states to start closings.
“We know his body was found in Florida, if it wasn’t found in Florida do you think we would be talking about insanity," Young said. "Think about the divine intervention of Gannon's body even being found.”
Young now showing the jury Gannon's autopsy diagram to the jury "because his injuries are relevant,” not just for charges but for her “state of mind" at the time she allegedly killed Gannon.
“It’s not psychotic, it’s strategic," Young said about the 18 stab wounds Gannon suffered at the hands of Stauch, allegedly.
“If you lose your temper, you don’t get to claim insanity,” Young said. “We’re humans, we have emotions.”
Young is now refrencing how none of Stauch's family, Harley Hunt, Al Stauch and Dakota Lowery, all testified that Stauch did not suffer from a severe mental illness "You think (they) wouldn't have noticed something," Young said.
Referencing**.
Young now referencing how the defense’s own witness, Dr. Ronda Niederhauser, testified that she didn’t think Stauch was suffering from any severe psychosis when they met in December 2019.