Sarah Alvarez
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So there were two witnesses who testified about Rashawn and guns.
Both of them are now police officers and both of them are also, they were Pata's best friends and are still very, very close to the family.
One of them testified that Rashawn said something to the effect of, big bra, I got my 38 on.
Mind you, Rashawn's number on the team was 38.
So who knows?
That was his jersey.
Also, he was not friends with it.
Like even this guy admits that they weren't really buddies.
So don't know why he would be saying such things to this person if he was saying these things at all.
And then the other person who testified, Dave Howell,
also a police officer, also friends with the Padas.
He basically said that Rashaan had shown him a gun at some point.
And this happened in the context of someone else's dorm room where that person didn't see anything, didn't hear anything.
And then he said that, so he said that he believed it could be, I believe, a smaller caliber firearm, but he could only even tell
What kind of gun he thought it could potentially be based on his police experience 20 years after the fact.
Looking back on that, he now knows that it was this gun, which happens to be consistent.
Yeah, so it would appear that it was five to one, five not guilty, one holdout who, according to reporters who were able to speak with this person, and I'm not sure who this person is, but
they wouldn't move based on a gut feeling and they weren't willing to discuss that gut feeling with the rest of the jurors once they had made up their mind.
And I- Yeah, to be clear, we do too.