NBC2'S MARISA BRAHNEY
Johnston's defense attorneys show jurors a list of 100 mitigating factors they say should sway jurors to instead give Johnston a life sentence-- implying the fickle testimony of co-defendants and other witnesses who took plea deals, makes the evidence less credible.
Sot David Brener, Defense Attorney
That testimony has been bought and paid for by the currency of liberty.
During an at-times dramatic, 3 hour long closing argument, defense attorney David Brener attempts to make jurors sympathetic to Johnston, harping on his rough life and bringing up his child he had with girlfriend and co-defendant Ashley Toye, who is serving a life sentence for this same crime.
Sot Brener
We take away an innocent child's father, so he has a mother in prison for life and a father executed in our name.