Rickey Edwards is representing himself at a capital murder trial. He is accused of shooting to death his wife and stepson in Grand Prairie.
Rickey Edwards prepares to question a witness on Thursday, October 5, 2023, in Criminal District Court No. 2 in Fort Worth. Edwards, accused of shooting to death Portia Williams-Edwards and Kameion Kitchen on May 3, 2020, in Grand Prairie, is representing himself.Rickey Edwards’ first case was a doozy. Edwards launched his legal career by representing a defendant accused of capital murder in a double homicide with a fairly damning set of facts.
, 46, Edwards struck his wife on the forehead and threatened her during an argument. She telephoned her father and son to tell them of the assault. Her son drove to the 7000 block of Monet Lane and a house into which Williams-Edwards and her husband had just moved. Like most pro se defendants, Edwards often flounders in his evidence presentation and seems unfamiliar with the requirements of criminal procedure. At times his lines of questions of witnesses do not reach an evidentiary point. Judge Wayne Salvant has given the defendant wide latitude, though he has occasionally become irritated on the relevance of the defendant’s questions, particularly at bench conferences.
During a confounding moment on Thursday, Salvant, Edwards and prosecutor Robert Huseman discussed the existence and relevance of metadata within crime scene photos. On direct examination, Williams was asked whether Edwards met Portia Williams when they were working at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport .In a meandering opening statement, Edwards told the jury he loved his family and listed a series of circumstances and emotions but did not connect them or explain how they might legally justify a killing.He noted a mental illness stigma among Black people without making clear how that phenomenon was at play in his case.
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