5/18/2023 0 Comments Flipping the bird bell![]() ![]() “And as a reminder, Mr Weekes, and the rest of the defence attorneys, your client murdered our loved ones in cold blood. ![]() “Yesterday, the elected public defender said that nobody had to endure what this defence has endured,” Jennifer Guttenberg, the mother of Jaime Guttenberg, said on Wednesday. The following day, Mr Guttenberg and his wife called for Mr Weekes’ resignation. Manuel Oliver flips the finger at the defence (Law&Crime) That just violated about every rule of professional responsibility,” Scherer also told Mr Weekes. “To try to threaten my children and bring up my children is inappropriate, go to the back of the room now. Judge Scherer then excused Mr Wheeler from the defence table, saying that he had been out of line and the defence’s behaviour was inappropriate and unprofessional. “Judge, I can assure you that if they were talking about your children, you would definitely notice it,” Mr Wheeler pushed. Judge Scherer shut down Mr Weeke’s remarks, saying that the victims’ families had maintained composure and made acceptable comments for the most part.Ĭhief Assistant Public Defender David Wheeler later seconded those claims, saying family members of the victims had brought up the defence’s children, while Judge Scherer said she had not registered those remarks and that she did not know what he was talking about. Mr Weekes claimed the children of the defence team had been referenced and that “nobody had gone through what had to go through.” Public defender Gordon Weekes asked the judge to intervene in the impact statements in light of the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi. The defence team attempted to argue that they were being “personally attacked” by the families during the first day of sentencing on Tuesday. Tamara Curtis laughs with convicted Parkland killer Nikolas Cruz at a pre-trial hearing (Law&Crime) Manuel Oliver, who lost his son in the massacre, also hit out at the defence, flipping his own middle finger and saying “you need to learn how to flip a middle finger.” Michael Schulman, the father of slain teacher Scott Beigel, also told the defence that they had a right to defend Cruz, but had “no right to demean ” Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter was killed in the attack, said the defence was “despicable” and “had lost their humanity” after Ms Curtis laughed with the killer like “an immature punk child.” The exchange was condemned by loved ones of the Parkland victims when they were allowed to address the defence during the two-day sentencing. Ms Davis said she could not confirm nor deny whether the exchange seen in the video had anything to do with the bar association investigation. She then appeared to raise her middle finger and rub it against her cheek before bursting out a laugh that was echoed by the convicted Parkland shooter. The trio takes turns looking at the camera before Ms Curtis gives a dismissive wave, appearing to suggest for the person controlling it to stop zooming in on the defence table. ![]()
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