ETA: this is supposedly coming from
Phil Cross Investigative Reporter
- still looking for original transcription notes
well I am still looking but in the meantime:
Jerome Ersland Trial Notes - First day of testimony
9:03 - Jury sworn in and given a set of instructions regarding the case and evidence they will hear.
District Attorney David Prater begins by reading the criminal information filed against Jerome Ersland. The information is the method used by the state to charge Ersland with Murder in the 1st Degree.
Summary of opening statements from DA Prater:
Prater tells the jury the evidence they will hear will tell them about the events surrounding the incident on May 19, 2009. The defendant told the two women who worked with him at the pharmacy if they ever get robbed, "Don't worry, I'll take care of it."
Police will tell you they thought Ersland was a hero, but when they said that they were relying solely on Ersland's own words. What he told investigators made him sound like a hero. It was just before 6:00 on May 19th, when one of the workers allowed the would-be robbers access to the pharmacy. Jevonte Ingram walked in with a mask on and pointed a gun at Ersland. Antwun Parker was still trying to get his mask on. The women run to the back. Ersland goes to the end of the counter and retrieves "The Judge" (a handgun that shoots both .410 shotgun shells and .45 caliber rounds. He fires the gun, Ingram runs. Parker falls. This is when Ersland runs to the door, glances at Parker on the ground and then runs out of the pharmacy and continues to fire at Ingram.
A neighbor will testify she was outside and saw Ersland fire three shots down the street.
Ersland goes back in the pharmacy, puts "The Judge" in his left hand walks behind the counter and gets a .380 pistol. He stands over Antwun Parker's body and "Boom...Boom...Boom...Boom...Boom" firing five more shots into Parker's body.
Ersland goes to the phone and calls 911 saying "911, I've just been robbed and I killed a guy."
Prater continues to tell the jury Ersland's first statements to police were that both robbers were running on both sides of him and he grabbed both guns, one in each hand and fired. He said he thought he hit the one on the left, but he was still up. Ersland says he shot him again but missed the other one.
After the video came out his story changed. Ersland went on Bill O'Reilly, a national Television program, and told a different story.
Over the past two years Ersland has continued to manufacture evidence.
A month and a half after the robbery he went to a hospital in Chickasha complaining of pain from a gunshot wound. Nurses will testify metal fragments had been inserted under the skin and after x-rays, when Ersland was left alone, he took a scalpel and cut the fragments out of his arm. When the doctor came in, Ersland told him not to put that in the file, and then asked the doctor take a picture of his arm with a disposable camera.
Prater said "When he stood over Antwun Parker and fired five shots, he was not a hero. He was a murder."
Defense Opening statements summary. Statements given by Joe Brett Reynolds:
There is no dispute that Mr. Ersland shot Antwun Parker. The police and even the prosecutor will tell you that he was well within his rights to defend himself and two innocent women. But he somehow lost the right to defend himself 24 seconds later.
Mr. Ersland went to the University of Oklahoma where he earned a degree in pharmacy. He enlisted in the army where he was honorably discharged and then joined the air force and was honorable discharged as a Lt. Colonel.
((OBJECTION - Approach the bench - Sustained))
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http://www.okshooters.com/showthread.php?111034-Latest-in-the-Jerome-Jay-Ersland-saga./page13
