wednesday, where he told the court he did not want to testify and wanted the charges dropped, judge pamela white ruled thursday that the few sentences he muttered out, which were picked up by a recording device, would not be allowed into evidence. testimony thursday came from a wide range of witnesses, including a crime scene technician, a journalist from the baltimore jewish times, who exclusively interviewed the brothers about the incident, and a neighbor who says that he witnessed the initial interaction between at least one of the brothers before the alleged assault. however, when cross-examined, the same never admitted that he originally told police right after the incident that he could not identify the people in the car. the neighbor also testified that he heard who he thought was eli ~ teenager "you do not belong here." but the defense pointed out in a statement to police that he told them "you should not be in this neighborhood." the brothers are accused of beating an african american teenager while on neighborhood patrol. they claim it was in self- defense as they were confronting what

opening statements are expected to saturday in the morning before pamela white. >> all right a cold night. especially north and wet of baltimore. check it out. north not including the city but the northern half. also, carroll into frederick. frost concern toward daybreak, protect the plants and a freeze warning. now temperatures not so badw. he are still nine above freezing even way out in oaklandw. have a ways to drop and cloud cover keeping us from dropping off as sharply as we may have. you can see the big storm swirling up north of niagara falls up into eastern tanner canada and we are still catching clouds but we think skies generally clear. temperatures will drop but then a nice warping trend. 68 by four. a nice looking spring day. things will change by thursday. the details on that coming up. >> all right. science, a sign sweep going on. workers taking down unsightly signs that don't meet code along rolling road. they will talk more about what they call sign pollution on this very spot tomorrow afternoon. >> the hammer hit -- an adult video store is told to stop showing movies. aft

judge pamela white constantly had to tell them to raise his voice and speak into the microphone, but he would only bowed his head and mumble and sometimes wipe away tears. the defense attorney expressed frustration over this to the judge. >> we cannot do our job unless we can hear what the witnesses to accurately cross-examine in know what the testimony is. what the testimony is. >> there was also a problem with the grandfather. the judge asked him to leave the court. on his way out he went up to the witness and told him to speak up. the judge was furious. this once again let the defense frustrated. >> it is important to preserve the reliability of the testimony that people not to give signals to witnesses or communicate with them during their testimony. >> an afternoon testimony, more drama as the victim was called back to the stand and refuses to testify. the judge ordered him to testify and finally spoke up, saying i do not want to go through this. in my heart, i do not want to testify, i just want to drop the charges. did end upre judge excusing the victim from the case. we are e

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