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I walked around the side the building.

Mr. Minton and defense team go over the
facts. It’s a contentious relationship, how they sue
people to silence them. He hasn’t been sued. Nobody is
suing him. Yet he has financed -— I am sorry, he has
given money to a family to continue a lawsuit, which he
has no interest in. He has no legal interest in that
lawsuit, other than it is against Scientologists. You
can consider that when you consider of the parties here.
Motive. He is there to stir them up. No doubt about it.

It’s hard to argue self—defense when
you’re the one there picking the fight. It’s hard to
argue self-defense when you are the one there picking the
fight. Mr. Minton even admitted on cross examination
that he did not have to hit him. He did not have to hit
him. When he hit him with that video rolling right up to
his eye, how was Richard Howd a threat to Robert Minton
at that time?

The judge is going to read you a jury
instruction on self—defense. I want you to think about
that. He had to reach out to hit him with the sign. He
didn’t hit with his hand. He had to use an extension of
the sign to get him. The Defendant, Robert S. Minton,
must have reasonably believed that such conduct was
necessary to defend himself against the eminent, eminent