Testimony, Day Nine

Larry Morgan has withdrawn from Jamal Woods defense team. The defense has reopened their case and Larry Morgan is their witness.

Morgan has taken the stand to rebut what he says Dr. Adel Shaker told him over the phone that was different from what Shaker supposedly said on the stand.

Morgan says he called Shaker on Saturday, Feb. 7. He says there were "red flags" in Shakers testimony.

Concerning observations during the post mortem of Turner. He talked about the immobilisation, the process to stop flow of blood from turner. Shaker noted that in his examination that he discovered small metal coils with fabric in the coils that were put in Turners neck to stop the bleeding. He says Shaker told him a better way to have done that would be with a suture. He says a intern would have known to use a suture instead of a metal coil. He says Dr. Shaker told him that the ER doctors had written turner off and were treating him like they would a dead horse.

He says that Dr. Shaker indicated to him, that the procedures done at Huntsville Hospital, were a contributing factor to Thurston Turner's death. He says Dr. Shaker told him that the gunshot to Mr. Turner would not necessarily be fatal to Turner.

He says Dr. Shaker changed his testimony, because he was afraid the state would be mad at him.

His is under cross examination.

Morgan says he just wants to represent his client. It doesn't matter if he wants to get him cleared of the charges or not.

The prosecution has begun their closing arguments.

Larry Morgan, who had been one of Jamal Woods' attorneys, is now sitting in the back of the courtroom as a spectator.

Also, the charges have been ammended. The attempted murder charge involving the shooting of Tim Reliford, has now been changed to first degree assault.

Shauna Barnett is doing the closing argument for the prosecution.

She has finished. Alan Mann is now doing the closing argument for the defense.

Mann says that his job is not to make the jury like Jamal Woods. It is to tell them that the state has not met it's burden of proof to prove capital murder. Murder maybe, but not capital murder.

Rizzardi says beware of traveling salemen who try to sell you snake oil. The defense is selling you a bill of good.

The prosecutor says the Defense tried to pick on the victims.