Kevin Reddington Clashes With Judge Over Holdout Juror’s Reasonable Doubt

And in addition, and finally, I would ask that you not just give them, as I described it yesterday, a soft inquiry. Will you listen to my instructions? I would ask that you specifically direct their attention to proof beyond a reasonable doubt and re-instruct them on that forcefully. I think I did that yesterday, didn't I? Yes. You did it yesterday, you did it soft, you didn't do it forcefully, and I'm asking that you do it forcefully. What do you want me to do? Get a brass band? I read the instruction as written by the SJC. The fact that I perhaps didn't give it my full inflection, I'm sorry about that, I'm not an actor. I've just given the instruction. Well, my point, Judge, simply is that you're kind of glossing over the issue. The issue is this juror will not, according to that note, apply the law of reasonable doubt. And that's why I've requested, you know what I've requested, so I know my objection. But just in case the record's clear, I am specifically not glossing over this issue. I have thought about this issue long enough. I know the defendant objects, but the characterization that I'm glossing over it, trust me, that's not the situation. I've been thinking about this for quite a while. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to just give that instruction, as I said, that they have to follow my instructions. I'm not going to reiterate the reasonable doubt at this point. It may come to that again as we go through it. And I'll try and give this with more pizzazz than I gave yesterday, I suppose. But so with that, we'll bring the jury back in. And I'll ask the questions, I'll give those kind of, that instruction, and we'll send it back out.