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Jonathan Majors is seen leaving court on December 8, 2023 in New York, New York.
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New York Criminal Court Judge Michael Gaffey, who is presiding over the trial of Jonathan Majors, approved the release of evidence to the media on Wednesday, and the defense rested for the man. played after one day of testimony.
Closing arguments are expected to begin Thursday and the jury is expected to begin deliberations. Majors is facing four counts of assault, harassment and disorderly conduct after police responded to a 911 call on March 25.
The evidence presented Wednesday was all that prosecutors used during the trial, including photos taken by Grace Jabbari, the former partner. of Majors, the dark wound on his finger and a cut behind his ear after the accident; the 911 call Majors made after the operator found Jabbari in her apartment and said she found him “unconscious”; body-cam footage of police entering the apartment and footage of Jabbari and Majors on the street outside their private car, including video of Majors, “throwing back” or “dropping Jabbari in the car, as the prosecution argued. and the defenders.
The evidence also included footage of Jabbari chasing Majors down the street after the car was parked, which Jabbari said in his earlier testimony was to get answers about the texter. The leaked audio includes a recording Jabbari said he made in the Majors during an unrelated argument in September 2022, where the actor admonished Jabbari for drinking and told him to be more like Coretta Scott King and Michelle Obama. “My anger, my badness… all that said, I’m a great person. a great man. I am doing the best, not only for me but for my culture, and for the world,” he said.
All of this was previously shown to the six-member jury, discussed in testimony, but not made public.
Prosecutors say the March 25 incident began around midnight when Majors and Jabbari were driving home from dinner in Brooklyn and noticed a text message to on Majors’ phone saying, “Oh, I want to kiss you.” Jabbari said she was holding the phone when Majors removed her finger from the phone, grabbed her hand with his right hand, twisted her hand and then hit her right ear.
Majors’ team alleges that Jabbari was the instigator in the car, pointing to a torn button on Majors’ shirt, and they allege that he was unharmed, pointing to the fact he went dancing at a club after the incident and proposed. the injuries could have been found there or in the apartment after. Jabbari said he went to the club at the invitation of passersby on the street, who he asked for help, then sought solace from the aftermath of the incident.
After the incident in the car, Majors stayed at a hotel and then returned to his home with Jabbari the next morning. Majors called 911, saying it was “suicide attempt, I think,” according to the tape released Wednesday, and said she was “unconscious.” When asked on the tape what exactly happened, he said “I don’t know.”
“He was my first partner. We broke up. I came back. He sent me humiliating text messages. I stayed in a hotel last night. I came home this morning. I knocked on the door. I have been in the apartment for about 20 minutes. I knocked on the door. I couldn’t get inside. I finally went downstairs and asked the porter to help us. And they let me in by hand,” Majors said.
After giving 911 information about Jabbari, the operator asked what he should do while waiting for first responders. When asked if he knew if he hit his head or fell, Majors said, “No. I think I saw a hit behind his ear.”
In his testimony on the stand, Jabbari said he returned to the apartment he shared with Majors in the early hours of the morning and shared with him, as he ended the relationship. He said that he could not sleep because of the pain of his injuries, he took two sleeping pills and later passed out in the bathroom, staying there for several hours.
She awoke to police standing with her, who she later said she only knew because Majors had returned home and called 911. She denied any self-harm. Jabbari was later taken to hospital, where he was assessed for his injuries and evaluated by a psychiatrist, for self-harm.
In testimony on Wednesday, Elan Ruspoli, Majors’ agent from WME, took the stand briefly and testified that he spoke with Majors on the morning of March 25 and that the actor sounded “unconcerned” sadness” and “anxiety.” Other witnesses called by the defense included an emergency room doctor, who did not treat Jabbari but testified about the nature of his injuries, saying for example, he did not see “evidence of a strong explosion” in the ear” while looking at the photos of the injuries, as well as Det. Ronnie Mejia, who arrested Jabbari in October.
Majors did not testify in his defense, but as the judge told jurors, he was not needed and it should not be used against him.
The gentlemen appeared in court each day alongside his current partner, Meagan Good, and family members. The prosecution rested its case on Wednesday, after opening statements that began on December 4, and the defense team, led by attorneys Priya Chaudhry and Seth Zuckerman, began calling witnesses.