(22 Aug 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Las Vegas – 21 August 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Draskovich, defense attorney:
“You’re honor final witness is Mr. Robert Telles. I’ve confirmed with Rob Baron. We’re going to ask the court submission to allow him to testify by narrative.”
2. Telles sitting in court
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Draskovich, defense attorney:
“The defense calls. Mr. Robert, Telles.”
Clerk: “Please raise your right hand. You do solemnly swear the testimony you’re about to give this action. Tell me the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?”
Telles: “Yes” Clerk “you may be seated”
4. Telles sitting in court
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Telles, defendant:
“Again, I want to thank you for being here and that. And right now I want to say unequivocally, I’m innocent. I didn’t kill Mr. German, and I’ve got a lot to share with you all."
6. Wide, court room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Telles, defendant:
“The medical examiner testified about how Mr. German was murdered. And, you know, I, I had to see pictures of Mr. German’s body, you know, in preparation for the case. And it’s, obviously it’s ugly. But when the medical examiner testified, it’s the first time I’d learned how Mr. German was murdered. You know, you know, I think it’s the way that he was murdered. Speaks to, I think, something or someone who knows what they’re doing. You know, the idea that Mr. German’s throat was slashed and his heart was stabbed. You know, I think that’s, you know, I don’t know if anybody could just do that without some kind of training. That’s some kind of expertise. So, I mean, and I’m not I’m personally not combat trained. I have, you know, and none of that.”
8. Telles waiting while on stand
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Telles, defendant:
“Somebody framed me for this, and I believe that it’s Commerce Realty, and I believe that it’s for the work that I’ve done against them.”
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
A former Democratic politician accused of killing a Las Vegas investigative journalist who wrote articles critical of him took the stand to tell his story to a jury that will decide whether he goes to prison or goes free.
Prosecutors rested their case Monday after presenting 28 witnesses and hundreds of pages of photos, police reports and video evidence against him.
Telles is standing trial on a murder charge in the stabbing death of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German. Telles has pleaded not guilty and denies killing German. But he hasn’t said during multiple media interviews what he was doing the day German died
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