GUILTY FL - Jason Rodriguez accused of shooting 6 coworkers in Orlando, 1 dead

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Court is back in session. State is up on cross.

This is a screen cap of the defendent a few minutes ago.

 

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We're back. Who is this atty doing the cross of Dr. Prichard?

I'm not familiar with him, Chelly.

 

[Chelly]

I sense atty is inexperienced and young. He allows the witness to talk too long restating the defense case

 

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One more, the Dr. Jeffery Danziger, physiatrist.

 

[CarolinaMoon]

Dr. Danziger. He's the one who didn't get to testify in a certain other case we all know well. Okay, how many shrinks does this make? I've lost count.

 

[Chelly]

good grief, is there no limit to the number of experts?

 

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Yay! Linda is doing the cross.

 

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Well, after that long delay, the objection was overruled and the state will be able to ask their question.

The jury has finally returned.

 

[CarolinaMoon]

Wonder if State will get in all the rebuttal tonight or if it will go into tomorrow.

 

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Next witness, Steven Rodriguez - the defendant's brother.

Edited to add - State's first rebuttal witness. (Thanks CarolinaMoon--I missed that.)

 

[CarolinaMoon]

Should never have allowed his bro to have the gun back because he wasn't having an episode. They must have known that these "episodes" could recur. They knew JR.

 

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Next witness Dennis Ahern - a Sgt. with the Orlando Police Department on the day of the shooting.

 

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The State has no more rebuttal. They approach the bench.

 

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Well, I guess that's all we are going to see today. My feed has transferred to the local news.

The jury will be back at 9:00am tomorrow. I'm guessing closing arguments will begin.

 

[CarolinaMoon]

I won't be here tomorrow for closings. What a short and sweet rebuttal. It will be fascinating to hear how the prosecution uses all those doctors' testimony to prove RJ is not legally insane.

 

[Chelly]

I fell asleep during that long break:blushing:

 

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My feed was down for a while, but it's back up again and the State is up with their closing argument.

 

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The Defense is up. The jury decided that they didn't want a break in between the two arguments.

 

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Ryan Williams for the state had a good argument--so far the defense has not.

 

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State is up next with their final 35 minutes of closing argument.