This article by CXNN seems really flawed:
[video=cnn;politics/2017/03/01/aaron-hernandez-murder-opening-trial-bts.cnn]http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/21/us/aaron-hernandez-alexander-bradley-cross/index.html[/video]
"My question to you, sir, is: Who are you really?"
So began the defense's cross-examination on Tuesday of Alexander Bradley, a former friend of Aaron Hernandez and the central witness in the double-murder trial against the former NFL star.
That question from Jose Baez, Hernandez's defense attorney, provided a telling preview of the often tense and fiery questions posed to Bradley.
FIERY questions? I didn't sense much fire in this cross. It seemed haphazard and kind of weak, imo.
"Mr. Bradley, this whole spilled drink incident is something you're completely making up, isn't it?" Baez asked.
Yes, while Baez did ask that, there is no real proof that it is 'made up.' Baez is saying that AB made that up, and in fact, AB had a run in with the victims, in a drug deal gone wrong. But there is zero evidence that anything like that ever happened. No witnesses or videos ever see him talking to or standing with any of the victims that night. So that kind of weakens Baez's accusation, imo.
"At one point in the questioning, Judge Jeffrey Locke sustained an objection to something Baez had asked. Bradley smirked at the reprimand, and Baez took note of his smile.
"You realize two men lost their lives?" Baez said.
That ^^^ admonishment by Baez probably fell flat with the jury. They have watched Aaron and Baez smiling and smirking themselves. Baez smiles most of the time, with a phony cheesy grin. So to call out AB, who has been pretty respectful and sincere and serious, seems to be a cheap shot.
In addition, Baez quoted contradictory statements from Bradley in a jailhouse phone call days before he testified to a grand jury in October 2013.
"I don't know s**t about that s**t," Bradley said in the call, referring to the 2012 Boston shootings. "They're just going to ask me about a bunch of s**t I don't know."
Bradley testified on Tuesday that he was lying in that phone call, afraid that if he admitted firsthand knowledge of the shooting he would get in trouble.
Another 'blow' by Baez that I think fell flat. Kind of hard to call that an outright LIE. AB was on a jailhouse phone. Who tells the truth on a jail call? They all know it is being recorded. And other inmates overhear conversations. He is wise to pretend he knew nothing about the crime.
I really don't think the jury is going to call AB a liar that cannot be trusted, just by that jail house phone call.
There are two other things that Baez tried to make a big deal about, that didn't work, imo.
One, he tried to ridicule AB for saying that AH had kept the gun under the hood in the engine block. Baez smirked and implied it would have fallen out, and that no one would ever do that. I guess he doesn't watch 'the First 48' ... I have seen video footage of gang members retrieving guns from under the hood several times.. I think Jodi Arias hid her gun there as well..
Baez also made a big deal like he was catching AB in a lie, when AB said he wanted to wait around 'to meet some women', and then he walked towards the parking garage around closing time. Baez seemed to imply that no one would go to the garage to meet women. I guess he has never been to a parking lot at closing time. I worked in a club and when we were finally closed out, an hour after closing, there would still be guys and girls, hanging by the cars, trying to set up places to go hang out...
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Aaron Hernandez's attorney: Key witness made up spilled drink story
By Eric Levenson, CNN
Updated 4:31 PM ET, Tue March 21, 2017
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