has been consistent<\/a> since opening statements: His client is a liar.\n <\/p>\n\n Sanft told jurors that Davis\u2019 admissions \u2014 beginning with a 1998 police interview and continuing through proffers, podcasts, a documentary series and his 2019 memoir \u2014 were a nearly two-decade work of fiction, summarized on a slide in all capital letters during openings: \u201cBULLSH*T.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n He argued time, corruption and a \u201clack of actual facts\u201d would be a central challenge. He called the work of the detective who took over the case \u201cbiased, sloppy and incomplete,\u201d saying he \u201cbackloaded his work,\u201d and pressed repeatedly on a question he returned to all trial: why wasn\u2019t Davis charged years earlier?\n <\/p>\n
\n Sanft rested his case in under two hours after calling just three witnesses.\n <\/p>\n
\n He brought two former Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers to the stand who stood guard at Marion \u201cSuge\u201d Knight\u2019s house the night of the shooting, as well as a Las Vegas homicide detective who was present for one of Davis\u2019 proffer interviews with law enforcement in 2009.\n <\/p>\n
\n Former homicide detective Dan Long was present at the 2009 proffer interview and testified he intended to write an arrest warrant afterward, saying there was \u201cplenty of probable cause\u201d \u2014 but the district attorney\u2019s office declined to charge.\n <\/p>\n
\n After court Thursday, Sanft said he was glad the case is close to being done, as he and his team are \u201cexhausted.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Speaking on what he plans to say during closing statements, he said, \u201cI think it\u2019s exactly what I said in my opening, so it\u2019s not like it\u2019s anything different. It\u2019s just more of what the evidence has shown, instead of what the evidence will show.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defense Attorney Michael Sanft\u2019s theory has been consistent since opening statements: His client is a liar. Sanft told…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-601701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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