The judge presiding over a reckless murder trial in Mobile warned the defendant’s father Thursday about violating his rule prohibiting communications with people inside the courtroom.
warned the defendant’s father Thursday about violating his rule prohibiting communications with people inside the courtroom.
“It could subject you to the contempt power of the courts,” he said. “I could put you in jail for up to three days for what you did.” At the end of the second day of testimony, prosecutors showed jurors a series of photographs taken by a crime scene investigator. Among those images was a closeup of the victim’s body, an image so disturbing that defense attorney Richard Jaffe alluded to it during his opening statement. He called it “the worst picture you have ever seen in your life,” but told jurors at the time that it was not proof that his client acted criminally.
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