{"id":60,"date":"2022-06-30T13:51:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T13:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/closing-arguments-begin-in-rappers-murder-trial\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T13:51:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T13:51:50","slug":"closing-arguments-begin-in-rappers-murder-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/closing-arguments-begin-in-rappers-murder-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing arguments begin in rapper’s murder trial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LOS ANGELES \u2014 Both sides rested their cases Wednesday in the trial of a man charged with the killing of rapper Nipsey Hussle after a day’s delay because of an assault on the defendant by fellow jail inmates.<\/p>\n

Closing arguments are set to begin Thursday in the trial of Eric Ronald Holder Jr., who is charged with first-degree murder in Hussle’s killing and attempted murder of two other men struck by gunfire.<\/p>\n

Holder appeared in court with swollen eyes and staples closing a wound in the back of his head.<\/p>\n

He was punched and cut with a razor by two inmates while waiting in a holding cell to come to court on Tuesday, his barrister Aaron Jansen said.<\/p>\n

The motivation for the attack was unclear, and the issue was not discussed in the courtroom.<\/p>\n

Holder did not take the stand during his trial.<\/p>\n

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Jansen called two witnesses for the defense, including a private investigator and gang expert who tested to the seriousness of \u201csnitching\u201d that the prosecution says were the motivated for the shooting.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you grow up in the neighborhood, everybody knows the consequences of what it means to be labeled a snitch,\u201d the investigator, Robert Freeman, said.<\/p>\n