The Lateisha Green Murder Trial: Final Trial Blog Post

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This is legal intern Laura Vogel blogging from the New York TLDEF office, having returned from Syracuse very late Friday night.  The last day of the trial on Friday was emotional.  As you know, the jury finished deliberating and delivered its verdict.  Then, we spent several hours with Teish's family.  Finally, TLDEF Executive Director Michael Silverman was interviewed by several news sources, including the Los Angeles Times, before our return to New York City.

Jury Deliberations Conclude

When the jury was brought back to deliberate on Friday morning, they sent two notes to the judge.  The first note requested all of the evidence, which they already had.  In the second note, they asked to have Mark Cannon's testimony read aloud to them.  As the court reporter read Mark's testimony, I could see jurors nodding, sighing, and generally seeming satisfied with what they were hearing.  After the testimony concluded, the jury was escorted out of the courtroom.  Less than thirty minutes later, we were called back into the courtroom for the verdict.