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Defence counsel, Mr. Huckumchand for Dexter Marshall and Miss Rhondel Weever for the prosecution have already addressed the jury. The defence is asking for an acquittal on the grounds of doubtful evidence while the prosecution is seeking a guilty verdict, based on the strength of conclusive evidence.
During the trial, the jury was taken to the locus-in-quo (the scene of the crime) which was followed up by a visual demonstration by the prosecutor in her closing address.
The defence lawyer had objected to the visual demonstration on the grounds that it was not truthfully represented, but the objection was overruled.
The judge and jury at the Demerara Assizes heard that Dexter Marshall had shot ‘Lil Mark’ to death on October 1, 2010.
They also heard that the doctor who performed the post-mortem examination three days later revealed that the body bore 12 gunshot wounds.
Prosecutor Miss Natasha Backer, along with Miss Rhondel Weever, had said in her opening address to the jury before Justice George that evidence would be led to show that on that fateful day ‘Lil Mark’ had visited his mother at her home in Charlestown.
According to her, witnesses will say that shortly after leaving his mother’s home, Mark Caesar called ‘Lil Mark’ was shot.
She went on to say that: “He was not shot once, members of the jury, he was not even shot twice.” And she explained that a post-mortem examination performed on the body three days after had revealed that the body bore 12 gunshot wounds and that death was caused by multiple gunshot injuries.
One of the witnesses who testified for the prosecution was Police Firearm and Expert, Sgt. Eon Jackson.
He told the court of examining three fired .45 casings which he found to be components of ammunition that were fired by a .45 pistol and a .38 bullet, a component of ammunition which showed that it was fired by a .38 special revolver.
The trial ends on Monday when the judge will sum up the evidence to the jury and hand over the case to them for their consideration and verdict.
