The prosecution rested its case on Aug 19 after 4 days of witnesses & presentations that relied heavily on the #evidence police recovered from #RobertTelles’s home, #photos & #surveillance #video from the day of the stabbing, & a match between #Telles’s DNA & #DNA recovered from underneath #JeffGerman’s fingernails.

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The trial saw #RobertTelles take the stand against the advice of his attorney. During a winding, narrative testimony delivered across 2 days, #Telles accused those he clashed w/while in public office of framing him.

In the months before his death, #JeffGerman had written about Telles & his office, chronicling an alleged affair between the public administrator & a staffer & the tension that ensued among employees.

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