Driveway Shooting Trial: Defense Opening Arguments

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4 ай бұрын

Kevin Monahan is accused of shooting and killing Kaylin Gillis in April 2023. A car she was a passenger in turned into his driveway by mistake.

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@davidh8924 4 ай бұрын

When your case sucks and your client sucks and your lawyer sucks and everything sucks. 😮

@TwistedSix85 3 ай бұрын

Lmao true dat

@JD-oj5nd 3 ай бұрын

If you mean the defense (opening) you're sure right! 😆. This is the worse! He's made the case for the prosecution. I'm just getting started on the trial...can't wait to see where this goes.

@badazzmaro 4 ай бұрын

Defendent: "Better call Saul" Mom: "We have Saul at home" Saul at home...

@JD-oj5nd 3 ай бұрын

😅🤣😂

@TheHenok30 3 ай бұрын

The warning shot falls into the category of discharging a firearm, which is a crime, and because the perceived threat of deadly force is distant rather than immediate, the warning shot fails to qualify as self-defense. Self-defense is a response to an immediate threat of grievous bodily injury or death.

@yossarian6799 3 ай бұрын

They weren't callling for directions... they were calling for "re-inforcements." Here's a tip, defense team: it does't help your client if you include his deranged paranoia in your opening argument.

@paulamcdonald9318 3 ай бұрын

So the gun shot twice on its own?? Come on!

@fedos 3 ай бұрын

The gun will go off for no reason, so you can't blame the guy if it goes off twice while he's aiming at a car full of people.

@sephen131 2 ай бұрын

Right, those pesky shotguns always firing on their own. Last week I had a revolver that kept jamming on me 😂

@bizzzzzzle Ай бұрын

@@sephen131they do, happened to my grandfather, was hunting with a friend, dude was falling, dropped the gun, went off and put buckshot in my grandfathers knee

@HatakexXxKakashi Ай бұрын

@@bizzzzzzleyeah but did the ground rack another shell in and try to finish the job

@jdpazmino2010 Ай бұрын

Exactly… there’s no way it pumped another shell and shot another shot “accidentally”

@jamesoblivion 3 ай бұрын

First sentence of of his mouth, 'This was a terrible accident,' referring to his client firing two shotgun slugs at a car, and I'm already laughing out of embarrassment for where this ridiculous defense is going.

@DonnaLena1 2 ай бұрын

The Fox News defense

@sephen131 2 ай бұрын

His family said the Fox news was making him paranoid, and ironically they said that Fox news promotes making viewers into "victims" 😂

@Redspeciality 3 ай бұрын

So the guy is a biker himself, but he sees one motorcycle and to him it’s a band of marauding bikers coming to attack him, who calls for reinforcements? This attorney is shameless.

@betfig3804 4 ай бұрын

Terrible defense.

@ocean694 4 ай бұрын

I think any reasonable person would not believe you need a team of 2 SUVs and a motorcycle to break in.

@DonnaLena1 2 ай бұрын

Especially when the entourage drives up in full view and then immediately turns around and tries to leave

@HatakexXxKakashi Ай бұрын

Well how else are we going to pull off our Tom Cruise inspired flash mob in your living room come on man you're killing me Smalls

@Broseph4245 4 ай бұрын

This is easily the best video quality of any courtroom proceeding on KZfaq 🤣

@challanger275 4 ай бұрын

Guilty

@dawnatkinson7704 4 ай бұрын

I know there have to be defence lawyers but boy some of them are so slimy...this is indefensible. He should have plead guilty. Why on earth would someone brandish a gun that is unreliable and shoots on its own?!

@crand20033 4 ай бұрын

He is trying to say those vehicles posed some kind of threat to him but I doubt they stopped at all.

@DonnaLena1 2 ай бұрын

This defense lawyer looks like a snapping turtle who crawled out of the woods next to the defendants house

@sephen131 2 ай бұрын

@@DonnaLena1 hey don't bring turtles into this, turtles are baddass

@bizzzzzzle Ай бұрын

Out of all the things you call out, that’s the worst. Gun is reliable till it isn’t…

@cristlejohnson4900 20 күн бұрын

One of the situations defense can be good is when they defendant is innocent or the cops were bad and rights were ignored etc. There are cases when the defender is the good guy and when the prosecutor is. It really just depends on the side they are on.

@snikt2121 3 ай бұрын

This may be the worst opening statement of all time

@user-qo3jh9mn1t 2 ай бұрын

Just what I was thinking. I also think I would have tried to stop him.

@joehawkins9122 2 ай бұрын

That’s his job though, some one has to pretend they believe

@philipmclaughlin9636 23 күн бұрын

I always think of the defense opening statement as the rebuttal after the State Of The Union Address

@bladudemovies 2 ай бұрын

This is definitely one of the openings of all time

@DiddlyD-xx2ih 2 ай бұрын

Yup, this attorney made some interesting choices

@willtcox 2 ай бұрын

When he says, “Calling for reinforcements.” I would have laughed out loud in the court room and not listened to another word this guy said.

@senorbeast09 2 ай бұрын

12:05 "And he bangs the gun, and it goes off **cough cough bullsh't** 🤣

@hudsonkamagy2641 2 ай бұрын

wat a crappy attorney 😂😂😂😂!

@badman4life2rip 3 ай бұрын

Anyone drawing on their common senses would say, you ler off a warning shot .. and the gun "accidentally" went off the second time. Where are the spent shells ? Why couldn't the spent shells be found ?.

@adrianblade5015 3 ай бұрын

The gun goes off by itself next to our bed it can also load itself cmon man WOW

@sephen131 2 ай бұрын

Saw a shotgun load itself outside a bar back in '86 Right hand to God. I ain't never seen nothing like it since

@holz_name 3 ай бұрын

I don't know the law, but being dump is the same as being reckless with evil intend. Bringing out the gun and unlock the safety and even shoot is being reckless with evil intend. Having a faulty gun is dump and is also evil intend. It's your gun, you hold it in your hand therefore it's your responsibility that the gun doesn't shoot anybody. It's your responsibility to make sure that the safety works, and your responsibility that the gun doesn't fire if it bumps somewhere.

@amosbarrow3802 2 ай бұрын

If the shotgun is defective and can fire on its own…why in the world would you keep it beside your bed?

@crand20033 4 ай бұрын

I have no doubt he was just pissed off about being woken up and decided to shoot one of the cars to show them he didn't want them coming around his house.

@iamherefortheshow699 3 ай бұрын

He needs to work for the prosecution 😅😅😅😅

@ezhz6623 2 ай бұрын

Wtf is this lawyer? I'd be mad if he was my lawyer

@ronniesapp4469 3 ай бұрын

Why didn’t he call 9-1-1 immediately once he felt he was in danger ? Instead of getting a gun ??

@BlackLiesMatter 2 ай бұрын

Kevin Monahan probably argued multiple times in the past that guns don't kill people. Instead, people kill people, but now, all of a sudden, he claims that his gun killed the victim. You can't have it two ways.

@andrewevans5041 2 ай бұрын

I had no idea what sound a motorcycle makes until this lawyer demonstrated it for us lmao

@Harry-Manback Ай бұрын

Lmao I'm glad someone else pointed this out. *hears motorcycle pull in* "GOOD THING IM A BIKER MYSELF AND CAN DISTINGUISH THE SOUND FROM A CAR!!!"

@user-qo3jh9mn1t 2 ай бұрын

The attorney provided the very definition of depraved at the end when he told of an old, scared man with a gun he knew to be defective. A heinous disregard for the value of human life. What else could you call it? Using a gun like that goes far beyond recklessness.

@ronniesapp4469 3 ай бұрын

Even if he felt danger when he heard the roaring cycle coming his way he culda called the police?

@Mikeandlucy1 3 ай бұрын

So can somebody tell me how, if he fired the gun twice, once when "he stumbled and thank god no one got hurt" and once as a warning shot into the air, when does the defence suggest the victim get shot

@SocietyIsCollapsing 3 ай бұрын

I haven't watched this yet, but in the opening statement he said that, too. He's claiming he shot the warning shot into the air, and during the stumbling is when the fatal shot happened. His "thank god nobody got shot" remark is what he's claiming the murderer was thinking at the time.

@Will21st 2 ай бұрын

the defense attorneys body language tells me even he himself is not buying the crap he is peddling... he seems wholly unconvinced by his own arguments, which is why he comes across extremely poorly...

@MrModikoe 3 ай бұрын

what a load of bs..

@sherryvan4627 4 ай бұрын

Guilty.

@abirod41 4 ай бұрын

A terrible accident? , yeah right.

@hudsonkamagy2641 2 ай бұрын

the gun will self fire then reload n fire itself... meanwhile your only job is to point it towards a bunch of teens...yea crap!

@Ocrilat Ай бұрын

The thing is, a defense attorney is only as smart as his client. This opening is delusional, but so is his client...and the client is in charge of the defense. Kevin Monahan absolutely believes that this story will sway the jury to acquit him.

@martinmold1051 Ай бұрын

Drama lessons.

@jdpazmino2010 Ай бұрын

I’d give the defense lawyer a break, he’s just doing his job to a difficult case that is clearly lost from the beginning 🤦🏻‍♂️

@bbingtube 2 ай бұрын

The worst opening defense I’ve ever heard ffs

@runeshadow 3 ай бұрын

"A blackened heart". 😔

@blueskysummit6153 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, why does he keep saying that? He needs to come up with a different description. Clearly, the defense lawyer is an idiot.

@krisritton3912 3 ай бұрын

Arthur Frost is a terrible defense attorney...

@marsspacex6065 3 ай бұрын

A terrible lawyer who is so annoying

@theetruth4267 2 ай бұрын

Can you please? Thank you!

@phillipthomas118 Ай бұрын

Wow maybe I should become a lawyer,this has to be the worst opening statement I’ve ever heard & I would’ve fired him on the spot !!! Your Honour I would like to represent myself please 😂.

@user-qo3jh9mn1t 2 ай бұрын

I lived in the woods in rural Alaska for ten years. I now live in rural California. I also have lived on a property in the middle of nowhere in Northern California. I have had cars, motorcycles and four wheelers come on all these properties at night. I had guns. I had a twelve gauge shotgun by my bed. No way in hell would I have fired that gun without verbal contact. Oh, I’m old too. Not so old that I can’t tell a teenager when I see one. And I would never keep a gun that fired on its own.

@crand20033 4 ай бұрын

His wife was a truly a jinx for him.

@MatthewDePasse-sm9qf 2 ай бұрын

I’ve always been amazed by court room stenographers. How they can type so fast while following along.

@Gravy_Master 2 ай бұрын

Do you know about the special keyboards they use that can output an entire long sentence with only 3 or 4 individual keys pressed? It’s super fascinating!

@Drew_goo 3 ай бұрын

HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA such a funny case literally using “people don’t kill people, guns kill people” HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@itskaraelizabeth 2 ай бұрын

So it fired on its own…twice… yea ok

@Ocrilat Ай бұрын

A band of marauding bikers...driving SUVs?

@cabc8528 3 ай бұрын

Why do you continuously call them old? In your sixties is not old. Age-ist, call for an acquittal! Race ism applies here. 🤪

@Redspeciality 3 ай бұрын

What are you talking about? The defense attorney calls his client old so you think the murderer should get off?

@Gravy_Master 2 ай бұрын

Are you attempting to have a conversation with the lawyer in the video?

@blueskysummit6153 2 ай бұрын

Going for either leniency or sympathy.

@cabc8528 2 ай бұрын

@@Redspeciality sarcasm escapes you

@thomasreynolds3805 Ай бұрын

Jeez! It must just suck to be a defense lawyer in a case like this! You literally have to bend logic to defend a jerk like that...look at him, he doesn't believe the words coming out of his own mouth!😅

@jdpazmino2010 Ай бұрын

Exactly 😂

@nofucksgiven8125 2 ай бұрын

I take the gun cycled another round into the chamber without anyone pumping it? It just ejected the spent shell on its own? This lawyer is an embarrassment