Popcorn Shooter Trial Day 9: Reeves Testifies, Prosecution Train Wrecks on Cross, & Defense Rests

Law of Self Defense - A podcast by Attorney Andrew F. Branca

Yesterday was the ninth day of testimony in the murder trial of Curtis Reeves, the retired Tampa SWAT Captain who shot and killed Chad Oulson in a local movie theater in January 2014 after the two men had a verbal altercation that became physical. The defense presented only a single witness, whose testimony consumed the entirety of the jury’s day—defendant Curtis Reeves, himself. Over the course of the day, 79-year-old Reeves was subject to a full two hours of direct questioning by Defe...