If granted a new trial, Perry’s defense team intends to show a video of Foster where he admitted he carried an AK-47 to “intimidate puss–s who did not share his beliefs,” th…
requested a new trial on Tuesday — four days after a jury in Austin, Texas found him guilty, reports said.
Perry — who served a tour in Afghanistan and was stationed at Fort Hood, about 70 miles north of Austin — fired his weapon while he was on the clock for a ride-share company. No one else was in the car at the time. Lawyers also tried to show jurors three other incidents where Foster stopped cars on the public streets by using his girlfriend’s wheelchair.
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