"They wasn't there. I was. I know what happened, and I know what didn't happen," said accused-sniper John Allen Muhammad during his opening statement.
He was there.
That will be the buzz persisting in the background of any defense Muhammad's lawyers offer the jury.
He was there.
Muhammad's defense against charges he killed Dean Myers is back in the hands of his court-appointed attorneys now. With the guilt phase of the capital trial expected to last another five weeks, Muhammad's two-day stint representing himself was insignificant in terms of length. Yet its impact was huge.
The task for Jonathan Shapiro and Peter Greenspun is not so different than it was before Muhammad fired them, but an already difficult task now seems Herculean.
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