Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Petters Trial 1st Day

I was there.

Jury selection and opening statements.

Joe Dixon's opening argument was excellent. He outlined the scam without getting into too much detail. He played a few excerpts of recorded conversations with Tom Petters dropping the F-bomb in nearly every other sentence.

Hopeman previewed the defense argument; Petters was too busy to notice because he was a workaholic and distraught over the murder of his son.

Here's the Strib article.

I have some good drawings from opening day, I'll post them later.

This one I did a few days ago from photo reference: