Good stuff in segment form on Legalinsurrection.com.
Basically, if you arre the Prosecutor and it's a Friday, you want to leave the jury with the idea over the weekend that they need to go find a rope themselves to hang the defendant. Miserable fail. I am beginning to see that GW's attorney, O'Mara, is not the blundering ass I thought he was.
Note: GW's atty referred to as MOM (Mark O'Mara)
Prosecutor referred to as BDLR (Bernie De La Rionda)
Best take-away of the day: BDLR trying to show that GW's injuries were not that big a deal, therefore he wasn't justified in shooting. MOM turned it around on State's witness getting her to admit that GW could have been killed had the beating continued. O’Mara’s biggest home run with Folgate came with his final question, however: “Medically speaking, would you say that whatever he did to stop the attack allowed him to survive it?” Folgate: “It could have, yes.” Boom.
Also, from a legal standpoint:
First, there is no requirement under the law of self defense in Florida, or any other state, that a person must suffer so much as a scratch before they can use force, and even deadly force, in self-defense. All that the law of self-defense requires is that you have been REASONABLY IN FEAR of imminent death or grave bodily harm–it does NOT require that you ACTUALLY EXPERIENCE death or grave bodily harm before you can act in self-defense.