Re: Dunn convicted of attempted murder; hung jury on murder in 'loud-music' trial
His account is of what happened.
It is also the account which the prosecution has to disprove or show wasn't justified. Which we already know she couldn't do.
But if you want to go down the road of self serving statements, then we can point out that Davis's friends who lied, all gave self serving accounts.
That Christopher Leblanc gave a self serving account, just as Shawn Atkins did as well.
So you have nothing but your own imaginative invention of the boys' action to the contrary of what were being testified to in court in order to prop up and sustain your failed argument.
His account is of what happened.
It is also the account which the prosecution has to disprove or show wasn't justified. Which we already know she couldn't do.
But if you want to go down the road of self serving statements, then we can point out that Davis's friends who lied, all gave self serving accounts.
That Christopher Leblanc gave a self serving account, just as Shawn Atkins did as well.
You falsely present the impression that Dunn's account of what happened that night was a proven fact of what actually happened. But it's not.
In a self-defense case not only the prosecution has to disprove or show Dunn's killing was not justified, the defendant also has a burden to show that his account is truthful, reasonable by reasonable person standard and also not contradicted by physical evidence, witness testimony or his own inconsistency.
But, we know how Dunn had lied and perjured himself so many times while under oath. If he was truly acting in self-defense, there was no need for him to lie about calling a LEO buddy for advice and wanting to turn himself in but in actual fact was apprehended by the Jacksonville police officer few hundred miles away the next day. Also there was no need for him to lie about having told his fiancee regarding Davis pointed a shotgun at him when his fiancee testified under oath that he did not.
So, if he was willing to lie about his buddy and his fiancee that didn't directly pertain to his shooting at the crime scene and subject them to possible perjury charge what else was he lying about to save his own skin when he was giving his account of what happened that night during the argument that resulted in the shooting?
But we know most of his accounts are self-serving and unbelievable.
Take for example Dunn portrayed himself to be very polite by asking the boys to turn down the music and sincerely thanking them while describing two menacing-looking black men sitting in the back seat scrawling at him. He said he didn't want any confrontation so he just sat in his car eyes front and window up even after hearing Davis said "F^^k that guy!" followed by music being turned back up.
He didn't want to ask for any more favor because he didn't want any confrontation. So, he claimed he paid no attention as he could hear the guy getting louder and louder talking to other guys and getting more agitated and spewing racial slurs.
For a guy who claimed not paying attention and being deaf on one ear, he claimed to have heard amid the loud music Davis said, "I should KILL that M-F!".
Yeah right. How believable can that be for any sane person to believe that a teenager who was having a good time stopping at a gas station to get some gum to freshen their breath while going mail hopping trying to get some chicks to lay was going to work himself up into a frenzy unprovoked simply because a guy asked him politely to turn down the loud music which he didn't want to comply and the guy asking politely didn't ask anymore or provoke him in any way but simply eyes looked straight ahead and window up?
How believable can Dunn be about how polite and non-confrontational and calm he was that night while complaining about loud music that bothered him in the face of menacing-looking black men scrawling and throwing racial slurs and expletives at him when it didn't take him very long to throw back snappy retorts at John Guy, the prosecutor, who was merely doing his job by asking him some simple questions relating to that night?
Yet, the ones who were polite and calm at the cross by the defense were supposed to be the ones menacing-looking and unreasonably out of control foul mouthed thugs as Dunn would have you believe?
Now, remember Thomson on the stand admitted that the music "was pretty loud" and that when he turned the music down Davis told him "F*** that; turn the music back up," so he did. Why would he even admit to the music being loud and Davis saying the expletive at all? Why couldn't he have done what Dunn had done by describing Davis as a very polite and non-confrontational little angel?
Now, just base on this alone, tell me who is more believable? Not to mention the overly dramatic acting lines attributed to Davis by a semi-deaf Dunn that sounded so artificial for a self-serving purpose.
Next, Dunn claimed he saw Davis bending forward and picked up something with both hands with yet another Hollywood make believe drama line, saying, "Yeah., I'm going to f^^king kill you!". Yeah right, it's not even funny
It just defies logic. Davis didn't own a car nor was he known to even have a gun or a shotgun. If he did, the defense would have dug it up long time ago or at least found some high school students who knew about Davis.
So, he and the other three boys were going to mall hopping looking for girls and having a good time that weekend with a Durango borrowed from Tommie's aunt and Davis decided to bring along his shotgun to hunt for some chics?
And Tommie, while on felony probation, was all gung-ho about that not to mention there was no leg room in the back seat for the two men sitting behind let alone putting a chic in between? And they were just going to leave the shotgun in plain view while going about mall hopping and hunting for girls?
It doesn't even make any sense they would have a shotgun with them that night in a Durango with no leg room and no place to conceal a shotgun while they go out to have a good time hunting for girls, who I'm sure you'd find very enthusiastic about seeing a shotgun pressing against their legs on the way to merryland.
Or are you confused between hunting chics and hunting wild turkey birds?
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