Final arguments will be today.
http://www.capitalbay.com/news/454208-hser-ner-moo-burmese-girl-7-killed-in-utah-died-a-painful-death.html
For new readers, see our previous posts on the trial of Burmese Muslim, Esar Met, who is accused of murdering a 7-year-old Burmese Karen Christian girl in the apartment building where both were resettled by the US State Department and its Utah contractors.
Apparently, the defense could find no one to testify on Met’s behalf. Gee, no one from the State Department could come and attest to his character and say how they had chosen a sane and decent man to give a new life to in America?
From the The Salt Lake Tribune:
Only one man knows where Esar Met was when a 7-year-old girl took her last breath.
Was he standing over her, as prosecutors have alleged, having brutally assaulted and slain Hser Ner Moo in the basement of his South Salt Lake home?
Or was he somewhere else, as defense attorneys have said? Gone to a bus, perhaps, attempting to navigate unfamiliar routes to the home of his aunt and uncle in Cottonwood Heights.
Only Met can answer these questions.
But on the eighth day of his trial, Met declined to testify in his own defense.
Speaking through a Burmese interpreter Thursday, Met invoked his right to remain silent, telling an 11-person jury he would not take the stand to answer to the charges against him: first-degree felony child kidnapping and aggravated murder.
Defense attorneys rested their case before 3rd District Judge Judith Atherton without calling a single witness.
If found guilty, there is no death penalty for Met because he couldn’t understand English, he would likely spend the rest of his life being cared for by the taxpayers of “welcoming” Utah. A lesson in diversity for prison guards? Halal food? Special prayer times?