More Yella Beezy defense closing arguments | FULL

All right, Mr. Vesey, are you ready to speak? Yes, Your Honor. Go ahead. Okay, folks, I want to also thank you for your time, and I want to thank you for your attention. You here does not go unnoticed. This system does not work unless you're sitting here. And the state has a burden to prove this case beyond all reasonable doubt. And that burden is a high burden. They've got to resolve this case and prove each and every element beyond all reasonable doubt. And it starts right here. My client is cloaked with the presumption of innocence, and it never removes. And you don't lower that bar for anybody. Because if you lower the bar, you gotta lower it for your family. You're gonna lower it for your children. And you're going to lower it for yourself. God forbid you're ever sitting in this chair. This is a capital murder. And the state has brought you a lot of speculation. And at Bordyre when they said, hey, we're going to show you this puzzle with all the pieces, some of them missing, it's not your job to put the pieces in the puzzle. It's not your job to interpret language and text. It's not your job to speculate. You know, it's real easy to sit around and throw a lot of bad character evidence. We call it propensity evidence. Let's play a song. Man, if Stephen King was sitting in that chair, he'd get to that film. This is music. This is art. Moe Three was a great artist. One of the best. And my client's a great artist. One of the best. And they were making money. There's no motive to do anything to each other. They were making money. And if you look at... Look at the song and listen to it. It's music. If you want to look at some text, you all little ass kid fam, you so immature, that ---- sad. That same black crying, talking about his kids getting kept from him. That same black can't get his kids only if he want to put it on the social media, lame ass clown. We brought you this defense exhibit 32. Jocelyn Jackson. That's not a song. That is the feud going on in this case. Second paragraph. Lame-ass little boy. You don't get it? Wait, wait. You get my kids when it's convenient for you, but I'm going to show you mad, miserable-ass something? I don't give a **** about none of that crying ----. You done tried to make me look like a bad person? Tired of being nice to you? You got some growing up to do. You want to be? You so motherfucking bad want to have a problem so motherfucking bad when ---- can be so smooth, lame-ass kid. But no more being nice on God. Cry out your bitch Facebook. I don't care about no hoe. She sat up here and said, I don't follow them on Facebook. No woman wants to sit there and put the father of their children under the ground. But you know what happened on 11-11? She was telling Barnes... Right over there, she was telling his partner, Jabari Howard, she didn't know she was being interviewed, he wished death on me, he stuck a gun on me, he's with me. And we struggled through the assaults that she didn't want to admit, when she'd been bitten in the face for talking to somebody on the phone. And you know what's odd about this? The state didn't bring Anderson. He's retired. Where is he? They bring Jackie Northup over here to talk about Devin Brown's DVRs. And they said, hey, Special Agent Northup, how was your retirement? You think they can't get Anderson down here, who was the first person to talk to Devin Brown? The first person to sit there on video, on video, in an interview at the Homicide Department and talk about those assaults and talk about where he was and talk about what he was doing. Why did they bring Anderson down here to do that? Because they wanted to bring Barnes, who was wearing two hats, who gets up here and says, yeah, I reviewed his interview, but I don't recall maybe one saw. Toby asked him, hey, do you think you could have had the money? He's a good dope dealer. He's a low-level guy. But why do we have to bring out the fact that Devin Brown called Kiwan White 46 times? Between 11.10 and 11.11, over a 12-hour period, he's not just somebody giving a location. He's the recipient of this feud. He comes back and says, what are you doing, girl? Gee, I guess we're going to try to play basketball again next year. He's trying to deflect her. She says money. She says money. And you all knew she sat up here right from this witness stand right here. And knew there was a feud because Melvin Noble, Moe 3, had put his chains on her kids and put it all over the internet. And I played you the video. We played you the video. Why do we have to play the video? Why does the defense have to fill the gaps? Why? Because it doesn't fit the narrative of the state. You can go watch that video. Because what they're feuding on back here are these children. And I submit to you, in 2017, this investigation showed Moe 3 was talking to Jocelyn Jackson. And if Anderson was on this stand, he would tell you that. It's not your job, ladies and gentlemen, to fill the gaps. Why does the state say, hey, you know what, this phone data is right on point. But when we bring up a point, hey, you know what, that phone data isn't too good. Why does the state say, hey, you know what, under oath, fly a guy down here from California, Alabama, 27 days, they set up a 27-day trip, Marquis Conway set up a hotel for 27 days and moved around, and then we have to bring you, bring you to fill in the gap? No, it's really only three. It's really only three, and then it got extended, because when this event went down, the city went crazy, and you heard from this guy, who told you? Here are the records, and here's what's going on, and I'm just a marketer. And when the prosecutor picks up the piece of paper, she's not talking to my client. That's not his phone number on that text. She's talking to the executive. Take that and look back. I'm going to object your honor. Those are directly from the defendant's iCloud messages. It was a group chat, and that's what came out on the testimony. It was a group chat with the defendant. Thank you. The jury will remember the testimony. Argument of counsel is not evidence. The only numbers on there, on that, and he knows it, are California numbers, and they say we need to talk to him. I'm also going to object. It's not a California number. It's a New York area code. You're right on that. That's the only time. I'm not going to tolerate the counsel talking to each other. We're going to argue that. He's right on that. I'm wrong. I'm not the jury. The jury will recall the testimony. argument counsel of defense I stand corrected, 917 is New York, 917 is New York. But folks, when you're listening to a story, you gotta trust the testimony, it's not me. I'm a lawyer, I'm not evidence, these people right here are lawyers. They're not evidence. So when they say we believe and we know, they don't know. They weren't there, Barnes wasn't there. What these people show you from this witness stand is what you judge this case on. And let's talk about some of those witnesses. Prosecutor says, Cedric Bradley, he signed a plea agreement. But the next thing she doesn't tell you he signed a plea supplement that says, okay, I'm going to work with the government. I'm going to cooperate with the government. And the plea supplement is the benefit where you get your sentence reduced if you cooperate. And the police supplement tells you that the government is the one who determines your truth. And when I cross-examined him and talked about his truth, as you recall, when he met with Barnes, Barnes and United States attorneys, because Barnes was investigating murders, he denied any knowledge of murders. He said he didn't talk to anyone about murder. And this part about keeping it in the street to the code, he told you in 2023 when he sat down with the government, you don't just go sit down and have coffee with the government. They expect you to cooperate because he wanted to get a deal. And he wasn't keeping it in the street. He wasn't keeping it to the code. He told you he signed that proper agreement in 2023. And this stuff about him being on point, about getting shot in the rear, a reverse proffer is when they show you the evidence. This stuff has been all over the internet, the video, the discovery, everything that he has already seen, the government showed him the case. Mr. Guinta, you have five more minutes. Thank you, Your Honor. Cedric Bradley's working a deal, and the only way he can avoid life from the Kauffman County judge is if somebody picks up the phone and takes it off the judge's bench and cuts a deal with the DA. That's the only way that works. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't have a whole lot of time and this is a case where this man's life, you've got it in your hands. You cannot lower the bar for the government. You are the gatekeeper of this system. If you don't do your job, it doesn't work. They have not proved this case beyond a reasonable doubt and you must acquit my client because that's what the law says I want to thank you for your time.