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ICYMI: Jury sees additional footage of viral apartment beating of Muhlaysia Booker. Her father talked to @FOX4 outside the courtroom
Jury sees additional footage of viral apartment beating of Muhlaysia Booker (with clip)
October 15, 2019
"DALLAS - A Dallas County jury is hearing testimony in the aggravated assault of a transgender woman....
Edward Thomas' trial started on Wednesday. The state is trying to prove he caused Muhlaysia Booker pain during the violent encounter and that his hands were capable of causing her bodily injury....
Booker’s father, Pierre, reacted to Wednesday’s testimony.
“I’ll just put it like this: I hope you get right with God. Whatever the outcome of it is,” he said. “I’m going to tell you all something: I haven’t slept. I don’t sleep well at all. I miss my child.”
Testimony will continue on Wednesday.
Jury sees additional footage of viral apartment beating of Muhlaysia Booker
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Defense claims Muhlaysia Booker provoked her own beating, but state says smack talk is no license for assault
Oct 16, 2019
"...Edward Thomas, 29, is being tried in the April 12 beating at the Royal Crest Apartments in east Oak Cliff. The 6-foot-7 defendant faces a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon: his fists....
On Wednesday, jurors in Thomas’ trial watched the social media video that shows a mob crowding around the 23-year-old Booker as Thomas repeatedly punches her.
Prosecutor Robert Withers recounted in his opening statements how residents of the apartment complex started coming outside after Booker was involved in a fender-bender.
“This altercation keeps heating up and keeps heating up,” Withers said. “Muhlaysia is agitated, frustrated, walking around this group that keeps growing and growing. … At some point, this defendant walks over, puts on a pair of gloves and proceeds to assault Muhlaysia Booker.”
Withers told jurors that they’ll later hear the interview Thomas gave to a detective in which “he confesses to the assault.”
“The defendant says, ‘Yeah, I hit her. Wasn’t no hate crime, but I hit her,’” Withers said, describing the interview....
With Hawkins on the stand, the jury saw two videos that depicted the beating. One was the viral Facebook video, and the other was apartment surveillance video....
Later, jurors watched footage of Dallas police Detective Chris Evans interviewing Thomas. It was a voluntary interview in which Thomas admitted to the assault, Evans said....
The detective testified that after seeing the video of the assault, he believed Thomas used his hands in a way that could’ve caused Booker serious bodily injury or death....
Booker’s mother, Stephanie Houston, was the state’s first witness....
The trial will resume at 9 a.m. Thursday."
Defense claims Muhlaysia Booker provoked her own beating, but state says smack talk is no license for assault
(Defense attorney Andrew W. Wilkerson (right) objects as Stephanie Houston testifies during the assault trial of Edward Thomas at the Frank Crowley Courts Building on Wednesday.[Smiley Pool / Staff photographer])
(Edward Thomas waits for testimony to begin in his aggravated assault trial Wednesday.[Smiley Pool / Staff Photographer])
ICYMI: Jury sees additional footage of viral apartment beating of Muhlaysia Booker. Her father talked to @FOX4 outside the courtroom
Jury sees additional footage of viral apartment beating of Muhlaysia Booker (with clip)
October 15, 2019
"DALLAS - A Dallas County jury is hearing testimony in the aggravated assault of a transgender woman....
Edward Thomas' trial started on Wednesday. The state is trying to prove he caused Muhlaysia Booker pain during the violent encounter and that his hands were capable of causing her bodily injury....
Booker’s father, Pierre, reacted to Wednesday’s testimony.
“I’ll just put it like this: I hope you get right with God. Whatever the outcome of it is,” he said. “I’m going to tell you all something: I haven’t slept. I don’t sleep well at all. I miss my child.”
Testimony will continue on Wednesday.
Jury sees additional footage of viral apartment beating of Muhlaysia Booker
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Defense claims Muhlaysia Booker provoked her own beating, but state says smack talk is no license for assault
Oct 16, 2019
"...Edward Thomas, 29, is being tried in the April 12 beating at the Royal Crest Apartments in east Oak Cliff. The 6-foot-7 defendant faces a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon: his fists....
On Wednesday, jurors in Thomas’ trial watched the social media video that shows a mob crowding around the 23-year-old Booker as Thomas repeatedly punches her.
Prosecutor Robert Withers recounted in his opening statements how residents of the apartment complex started coming outside after Booker was involved in a fender-bender.
“This altercation keeps heating up and keeps heating up,” Withers said. “Muhlaysia is agitated, frustrated, walking around this group that keeps growing and growing. … At some point, this defendant walks over, puts on a pair of gloves and proceeds to assault Muhlaysia Booker.”
Withers told jurors that they’ll later hear the interview Thomas gave to a detective in which “he confesses to the assault.”
“The defendant says, ‘Yeah, I hit her. Wasn’t no hate crime, but I hit her,’” Withers said, describing the interview....
With Hawkins on the stand, the jury saw two videos that depicted the beating. One was the viral Facebook video, and the other was apartment surveillance video....
Later, jurors watched footage of Dallas police Detective Chris Evans interviewing Thomas. It was a voluntary interview in which Thomas admitted to the assault, Evans said....
The detective testified that after seeing the video of the assault, he believed Thomas used his hands in a way that could’ve caused Booker serious bodily injury or death....
Booker’s mother, Stephanie Houston, was the state’s first witness....
The trial will resume at 9 a.m. Thursday."
Defense claims Muhlaysia Booker provoked her own beating, but state says smack talk is no license for assault
(Defense attorney Andrew W. Wilkerson (right) objects as Stephanie Houston testifies during the assault trial of Edward Thomas at the Frank Crowley Courts Building on Wednesday.[Smiley Pool / Staff photographer])
(Edward Thomas waits for testimony to begin in his aggravated assault trial Wednesday.[Smiley Pool / Staff Photographer])
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