Prosecutors wish to put homicide defendant Karen Learn’s protection staff on the stand, in line with their up to date witness checklist.
The brand new checklist submitted Thursday features a whole of 91 witnesses and ends with a brand new part known as “Counsel for Defendant” that lists Learn’s three trial attorneys: Alan Jackson, Elizabeth Little and David Yannetti. The unique checklist launched final week had 86 whole names.
“This is a hard-fought fight and the lawyers on both sides are getting a little rough,” Jack Lu, a retired state superior court docket decide who’s an adjunct college member of each Boston School and UMass Lowell, advised the Herald.
He stated including trial staff legal professionals to a potential witness checklist is “not unheard of” however he’s undecided he ever encountered it in his judicial profession.
Particular prosecutor Hank Brennan including his trial opponents to the checklist says “Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore,” Lu stated.
“This case is unbelievable and always just one more thing,” he added. “It shows that Brennan plays to win … (and) is keeping his options open.”
Lu stated the possibility of Brennan truly calling them is “quite low.”
The up to date witness checklist got here Thursday, which additionally featured one other all-day pretrial listening to that confirmed either side’ thinning endurance with each other.
“I suggest that we take the personal attacks completely out of this … both sides.,” Norfolk Superior Courtroom Decide Beverly J. Cannone stated simply earlier than the lunch break. “Leave all the attacks, all the falsehoods, leave it all the aside. Let’s focus on the motions.”
