The defense argues that the prosecution has wrongly characterized a car accident as murder, and the jury must consider reasonable doubt, particularly concerning the investigation's integrity, the defendant's actual level of intoxication, and potential external factors contributing to the crash.
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may it please the court Council
Council
and you
this is a case
the prosecutor just got it before you
and talked about choices
but ladies and gentlemen I want to
redirect your attention from the choices
they claim the Danny Dawson make
to the choices that these prosecutors
have made today
members of the jury they've taken a car accident
accident
and they haven't chosen to call it
reckless driving
they haven't chosen to call it manslaughter
manslaughter
they've chosen to call an accident
a murder
and when they made that choice they
assumed a very heavy burden a burden
that throughout the entirety of today's
trial is going to stay squarely on this
table and never once move over to that one
one
this burden of proof is to convince all
of you that an accident is the same
thing as a drunken murder
not until it's possible
or probable or likely or more than
likely they have to lift the weight of
fact until you're convinced Beyond A
Reasonable Doubt
ladies and gentlemen of the jury there
are too many unanswered questions for
you to make that call today Pew to
convict Miss Dawson
it doesn't take 20 reasonable doubts or
ten or five folks all it takes is one
but we the defense are going to present three
three
three important questions we hope that
you keep in mind throughout the day's trial
trial
question number one what happened during
the police investigation
both sides have agreed have stipulated
that a black box that's supposed to
record how fast a car is going in this
case a black box that's supposed to
withstand impact of a plane crash
was destroyed
in a low-speed car accident
we're going to call an Accident
Reconstructionist to the stand an expert
witness named Leslie Roman and what Mr
Roman will discuss to you today
he said that investigation
investigation
show a police force that is now part of charge
charge
that's simply too high that there's too
many questions that the field sobriety
test you heard the prosecutors just mentioned
mentioned
may not have even happened at all
that's going to lead us to our second
question how much did Danny Dawson truly
have to drink Nothing questions
folks we admit it Danny Dawson did drink
alcohol and then drive a car we're not
going to hide that from you
in fact we're going to call the
bartender who served those drinks to the
wit stand
the bartender Jordan James will explain
to each and every one of you
that he's seen customers that are too
drunk to fly a kite
sober enough to fly a plane
and when he saw Danny Dawson leave the
bar that night he was convinced as he'll
be convinced
Annie was fine to drive
so if Danny was was fine to drive
why was there that swerving crash that's
the third question is there a reason
an explanation
when Danny Dawson crashing that car
we're gonna call it eyewitness to the
stand named London Bennett Mr Bennett
saw the whole accident take place right
on his front porch and he's going to
tell you that before the accident occurred
occurred
he saw his dog run off towards the road
just a little after that dog ran off
towards the road all of a sudden that
car parked swerves and jerks back and
you'll have to think to yourself is that
the action of a drunken murderer
what was Danny Dawson just trying to
avoid something that got in the car's path
path
ladies and gentlemen of the jury the
prosecution talked for so long about
choices he's right the choice in this
case though is not the prosecutors
not any of their Witnesses not mine
it's yours
after you hear all the evidence we'll go
back to our lives as will of a as will
all of you but today
I miss Danny Dawson's one day in court
we're going to ask you to find her not guilty
guilty
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