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SerialShooter

  1. Most of the testimony today is a repeat of what was presented during Dale Hausner's trial earlier this year and last year.
  2. The jury has returned from the lunch break with one fewer person on it. Was a juror booted during lunch? I don't know.
  3. Phoenix TV station will hand over footage of Serial Shooter in his underwear http://bit.ly/oLx5G
  4. It appears that any potential mistrial will be avoided, though one juror may still get the boot.
  5. Correction: ...may end in a mistrial on *Thursday*
  6. Late development: There's a chance Sam Dieteman's trial may end in a mistrial on Thurdsay: http://bit.ly/19vXUb
  7. Testimony is almost done for the day. No surprises here. The only people still left in the gallery are journalists.
  8. Back again from the brink of death, survivor returns to the courtroom: http://bit.ly/LOx1R
  9. Phoenix police detective Clark Schwartzkopf is spending the whole afternoon detailing each crime in which Sam Dieteman was involved.
  10. Dieteman is dressed in street clothes in court today, clean shaven with a blue shirt and khaki pants. A different man than at his arrest.
  11. Defense asks jury to judge Samuel Dieteman, the second gunman in the Serial Shooter killing spree, "as a whole man." http://bit.ly/ck2gu
  12. Paul Patrick, a victim in this case, is back in the courtroom today after returning from the brink of death earlier this year.
  13. Imbordino describes a murder: "Unfortunately for Ms Cruz, the distance between the muzzle of that shotgun and her is not very far."
  14. Prosecutor Vince Imbordino is giving his opening statement. He is dry and direct, as matter of fact as anyone could be.
  15. Dieteman's defense atty asks the jury to consider more than just the shooting spree. "You must, and I ask you to, judge him as a whole man."
  16. Dieteman has confessed to 2 murders and numerous other shootings. But he has also shown remorse and cooperated with police and prosecutors.
  17. Defense attorney Maria Schaffer opens by telling the jury that her client, Sam Dieteman, "will not bring you excuses for what he did."
  18. Attorney outraged over footage of Serial Shooter suspect in his underwear http://bit.ly/2kGe1U
  19. Exclusive: Serial Shooter juror talks life, death and acquittals (Part 1 of 2): http://tinyurl.com/coarny
  20. Phoenix police Chief Jack Harris, county Attorney Andrew Thomas and prosecutors Vince Imbordino and Laura Reckart will speak in 1.5 hours.