Brendan Banfield

Just the moment, your reaction when the judge started asking Brendan Banfield questions, and we knew he was about to testify, but she had to go through this process, and it was just something to know what was coming.

Yeah, my heart was pounding to have her make sure he knew his rights, that he did not have to testify, that the jury would be directed by her to not hold that against him.

And so he just kept saying, yes, I know this, and yes, I want to testify.

And in my 30 years of covering trials, I have never seen a defendant accused of murder take the stand in his own defense.

This is a double homicide.

So this has turned into a he said, she said.

And so he is getting his story officially on the record.

That back and forth goes on.

He takes the stand and robes the the prosecution has been really.

And I wonder how she's going to come across.

We should talk to an expert about it.

But she has been interrupting and objecting and objecting and sometimes objecting.

In not the kindest of ways, it's her tactic or whatever, but I wonder how that has been coming across to this jury.

Yes, I would use the word relentless.

That's kind of how she comes off and to the point where it's so disruptive that you can't even follow what the testimony is going to be or should be or...

And you start to get frustrated because she keeps interrupting.

And even though she may, and most of her objections were sustained, they were only a few were overruled.

So the judge was validating her, but still it's annoying and it's irritating.

So I, you know, and she, her voice, there's just something about her tone that is slightly sarcastic and like, aha, like I told you so, like I know better than you.

So she's got this tone about her on top of it that adds to the annoyance.