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Once a jury is selected, testimony is expected to last two weeks. On Thursday, a Los Angeles judge ordered both sides back to court on June 2 to begin jury selection, reports Rolling Stone.
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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.The murder trial of Nipsey Hussle’s alleged killer is finally set to begin next month.Įric Holder, the man suspected of gunning down the rapper, will face a jury in the high-profile case, which was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. “Unless Rimpau gets picked up,” McKinney said after court.įollow AP Entertainment Writer Andrew Dalton on Twitter: Ĭopyright 2022 The Associated Press. Prosecutors have just one more witness before they rest their case, and the jury could have it soon. The defense has acknowledged that Holder shot Hussle, but says there was no premeditation and he is not guilty of first-degree murder. Others have been far more hesitant and tight-lipped on the stand, though several eyewitnesses have identified Holder as the shooter, making it unlikely the absence and silence of other witnesses will do much damage to a powerful prosecution case. Nicholson was given extra security, and was escorted through a special entrance for her two days of testimony this week, in which she appeared to speak freely and confidently, showing no reluctance. McKinney emphasized that the threat was not about her testifying, but about her role in Hussle's death. “Everybody seems to think that from coming to court, they are going to be subject to retaliation.” I’ve found that a majority of people are reluctant to come to court or talk to law enforcement,” Washington said. “I’ve investigated many cases that are outside of the scope of gang cases.
In follow-up questions from prosecutors, Washington downplayed the gang aspect. Jansen continued, “Several witnesses in this case have said they did not want to come to court, and they felt that their families would be in danger, right?" “I do believe it is common, yes," Washington said. “I’m asking about gang cases,” Jansen said. “I wouldn’t limit it to gang cases," Washington replied. “Typically in gang cases is there a reluctance to testify?” Jansen asked. On Thursday, Jansen sought to pin the hesitancy on Holder and Hussle's ties to the Rollin' 60s street gang. “You don’t want to testify about what happened?” Deputy District Attorney John McKinney asked him. He then declined to identify Holder as the shooter. “I don’t know nothing, don’t see nothing," Kerry Lathan, who was wounded in the shooting, said on the stand last week, refusing to identify himself in surveillance video that was played for jurors. Even Hussle's friends and fans, and people hit by Holder's gunfire, have been reluctant to talk in the public venue. The shooting took place in a predominately Black South Los Angeles neighborhood where both men and most of the witnesses grew up, and where mistrust of police and courts runs deep. It was a conversation between Holder and Hussle on the subject - in which Hussle told Holder there were rumors of “paperwork” suggesting he'd been talking to authorities - that prosecutors peg as Holder's motive for returning minutes later to gun Hussle down. The taboo against “snitching” has pervaded every part of the trial of Holder, who is charged with first-degree murder in the 2019 death of Hussle and with attempted murder because two bystanders were struck with gunfire.
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