Chris Trotter

On the second day of the trial, the state’s star witness and chief “victim”, Ben Kerensa was called to the stand. This was the 400 pound guy who had organized and led the mob to attack me, and was the one yelling at me to “GET THE F*** OUT OF HERE!” while shoving me after…

During the Ben Kerensa testimony, there came a point where Kerensa testified that he had exchanged multiple emails with police about the incident. These emails were never included in discovery. We never got copies of them. It’s odd that several other emails from witnesses who were down the block and hardly saw anything were included…

As the week went on, there were several things that left me perplexed and wondering why Chris Trotter and Jason Short weren’t doing more to fight for me. Prior to the trial, Trotter and Short told me they were going to motion for dismissal after the state’s case in chief, because they would likely not…

In the lead up to the trial, an antifa-associated terrorist group openly plotted to interfere with the trial, threaten myself, threaten witnesses, and vowed to “stop Michael Strickland” in a Facebook event page. They continued down the false trope of calling me a “white nationalist” (whatever that means), and claiming that I went to events…

Remember how I had posted about the discussion as to who would serve as the expert witness in the case who could testify as to what a person with a Concealed Handgun License is trained to do? Well, Chris Trotter and Jason Short insisted that this person be their firm’s private detective, Jason Servo. If…

After Jason Servo’s trainwreck of a testimony that could have been avoided had Chris Trotter used an expert witness who had actually trained me, the judge allowed deputy DA’s Todd Jackson and Kate Molina to present a rebuttal witness. This was partially due to the line of questioning by Jason Short with Servo, where Short…

After Officer Rasmussen testified, it was time for both sides to actually rest. For real this time. The videos were played for the judge again, each of them, from start to finish straight through. Then Todd Jackson made his closing arguments for the prosecution. Surprisingly, there were no surprises or last-second stunts pulled by them….

Despite being just convicted of 21 counts of not harming a so much as a fly, the judge did not order me back into custody. Instead he set sentencing out nearly three months and ordered a pre-sentence investigation (PSI), along with psychological exam, which was to include “an analysis of what is likely to reduce…