That death started a chain reaction that culminated in nationwide protests and a collective cry for "Justice for Laddie!"
But today Attorney for the defence Oscar Selgado told the media that the judge and perhaps the public need to push all those quote: "emotional reactions" aside when looking at the facts of this case, and who, if anyone is really guilty of manslaughter.
Oscar Selgado, Attorney-At-Law
"In my closing address that I will do, and the closing affords me the opportunity to match the facts with the law, apply the law to the facts, and so that is what I will remind the judge in my closing that there are posters all over the place with justice for Laddie, all these things to remind the judge that as the trier of fact she must divest herself of any emotion, no emotion for Laddie, no emotion for Corporal Martinez, law is reason free from passion, free from emotions so that the judge must apply only what was said in the court, and not what is seen on a television, what is read in a newspaper, not what is seen on a bulletin board on the side of the road somewhere. Only what is said in court is the evidence that the judge must consider and what she saw at the locus en co, when we visited the locus en co, and what was said in the locus en co was repeated here in court, that is why the judge brought back the witnesses from the locus to the court, so that thier evidence could be made on oath on the record and so everything that madam justice Moore will consider has been said in the court."
This stage of the hearing is finished and final submissions will be made on March 14th.
