Please read the latest Jena Six post here.

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There’s most testimony about the attack/fight/altercation in this Town Talk article by Abbey Brown: Jury may get ‘Jena Six’ case today

During Williams’ cross-examination of the students, he pointed out differences in their stories. Of the 11 who testified, four — including Barker — said they couldn’t identify who first hit Barker. Another four told the jury that Bell was the one who hit Barker, knocking him onto the concrete just outside the school gym.

Three students testified that someone wearing a jacket and hood — some said it was green — hit Barker and then ran off. Those students said that because they couldn’t see the person’s face, they didn’t know if it was Bell or not.

Jessica Hooter, who said she was walking in front of Barker and his girlfriend, Kari Randal, that day, was one of the four who testified it was Bell who hit Barker.

“I heard, ‘There’s that white m-fer that was running his mouth,’” she testified. “… (Bell) punched (Barker) on the side of the head, and he fell to the ground.”

Hooter said that after punching Barker, Bell started kicking him, as did Bailey. She said there were “maybe 10″ boys there that started kicking Barker after he was unconscious. Others testified that there were 12 to 15 surrounding Barker and kicking him.

Eric Scroggs told jurors he heard a pop — the sound of someone hitting Barker — and then saw “a bunch of black boys jump on him” including Jones and Bailey.

Lacey Elliott testified that after Bell hit Barker, Jones, Bailey and Shaw started “stomping and kicking” Barker.

During Lexi Jones’ testimony, she said she saw a guy in a green jacket with a hood come from the right and hit Barker on the side. She said Jones and Bailey were “stomping and kicking as hard as they could” on Barker’s head.

Both Lexi Jones and then-Jena High Assistant Principal Gawan Burgess testified that they thought Barker was dead after seeing him lifeless with blood coming out of his ears and nose.

“He opened his eyes, and his eyes rolled back and he gasped,” Burgess said. “… It didn’t look good.”

Later Burgess said the injuries looked more serious than they actually were.

Emma Humphries, emergency room supervisor at LaSalle General Hospital at the time of the attack, said Barker sustained a number of cuts and bruises, including a serious abrasion of the eye. She noted that he also had a swollen eye.

A bloody nose, not a broken nose, is NOT AT ALL consistent with having someone “stomping and kicking as hard as they could” on your head. If these boys were being prosecuted for simple battery, I wouldn’t have much to say. A high school fight easily falls under that classification. If the people who attacked black students over the weekend were also being prosecuted, I wouldn’t have anything at all to say about this case. But these charges are outrageous, they are being applied to a select group, and the testimony is too unreliable to put these kids in jail for the better part of their lives. This is an injustice and an embarrassment to Louisiana.

According to F.O.J., Bell’s attorney isn’t going to present a defense. And he apparently made that decision without consulting his client.

Mykal told several of us during a break in the action that his attorney didn’t consult him before he decided to take a dive in this case.

Read it all. If this is true, the whole thing just got extended beyond belief, because the ACLU will certainly get involved in whatever the appeals process is.

Update: more from FOJ on Bell’s attorney and his failure to call any defense witnesses. The Defense Rests

written by Laura