Max Gemma

He was using it to do coke off of.

The women painted a picture of him being pretty quick to use this knife for any variety of tasks.

He had a lot of issues.

Attorney Robert Caliendo.

In the fall of 2016, he was in the throes of as bad a drug problem as you could have.

There were a number of reasons to think that Mr. Ruggiero might not be the person you want to hang the hat of a murder conviction on.

And why is that ring so important?

The ring had a sizable dent in it.

And if you conclude that he hit Joseph so hard that he dented it, that certainly is a fact that we would want the jury to consider, and it certainly speaks to who might have committed murder and who might not have.