aggiehawg said:
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Hawg, seriously… how can you say definitively he was just using the rifle to fling him off the porch and wasn't seriously trying to take it? It's speculation, you could just as easily speculate he was trying to take it and failed or slipped and the shooter was able to maintain control. The constant here is that Read said, "You better use it MF or I will take it from you and blow your….presumably head off but it was garbled." And as you stated grabbed the rifle. He said he was going to take it and use it, and then grabbed the rifle, but we are to believe he wasn't trying to take it? He said what he was going to do.
Observational skills. Read, bigger much stronger guy than Carruth. If Read was after the gun, he would have hung on and a real struggle over the gun would have ensued, with both them having their hands on the weapon. If Read had a bad grip, he would have tried to get a better one, if taking the gun away was his true intent at that moment.
That didn't happen, ergo Read apparently released his grip on the weapon once Carruth was stumbling away backwards.
A jury could disagree with that take, obviously but that's what I see in the video. Especially the slowed down gif of the video from inside the house, I posted earlier. In slo-mo, it becomes much clearer, to me at least.
Let's come back to this point for a second.
Carruth's attorney was the one who put out a statement characterizing Read's flinging Carruth away as Carruth was a "Scarecrow" Now while true that attorney statements are not evidence, the chances that that phrase comes into evidence because someone else repeats (hint: Christina Read, the ex) is more likely. Clients tend to pick up on buzzwords they hear or read their attorney says. Witnesses can aswell.
The implication being that if Chad Read really intended to take that gun away from Carruth, he could have easily done so since Carruth is as weak as straw filled farming trick to keep birds away from a crop.
Of course, the opposite could be argued as well. That Carruth really is a soy boy weakling and was always afraid of Read. But would Carruth not bristle at that? Sitting at defense table in full view of the jury? He comes off as an excitable type, to me. Not sure he could sit there and hear his own lawyer portray him as the guy always getting sand kicked in his face in a old Charles Atlas ad.
Reason number one that defense attorneys should keep their mouths shut other than saying their client is innocent and look forward to being vindicated, period. Never ever tell the prosecution their theory of the defense. One never knows what can come back to bite you in the butt.
