Elliot Williams
speaker
443 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 26 Jun
Elliot Williams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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One morning, they went into court and taped out a model of the train car on the floor of the courtroom.
They brought in four of the meanest-looking Black guys they could find and dressed them up in dirty jeans and white T-shirts and had them represent the four young men
Think of all of the various factors that would have been at play.
But all it was was a taped out model of the car with four mean looking black teenagers grabbing and tugging and shoving and pulling the model Bernard gets.
But the damage was done.
The jury saw what the defense wanted them to see, which was four young black men beating up a white man.
And that's it.
The defense made the decision, a very risky one, but said that this was a frightened man.
And even though he's openly confessing, he was unambiguous and I intended to murder these men and to make them suffer as possible.
Those were his words.
But because he was scared and out of his mind, that meant that we should discredit the words that come out of his mouth.
It was very risky, but ultimately the strategy paid off.
The legal reason goes back to this question of reasonableness.
The law in the state of New York says one can use deadly or lethal force if he reasonably believes he's about to be a victim of a robbery.
And after doing that analysis, the jury felt that Goetz was reasonably afraid.
And they think that
What they were simply doing was applying the law, saying in a rough environment, in a rough city, this individual was reasonable in his belief that a mugging might have been imminent.
And the question was, is reasonableness subjective in the sense that if you genuinely feel scared in your heart, that's enough.
I feel scared.
Therefore, I can use deadly force or objective.
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