Rodriguez said that his brother told him of the punch, but said nothing about the location of the blow or the defense’s contention that Pring-Wilson was brought to his knees by it.
Defense attorney Kaufman appeared flustered by the inconsistencies between Rodriguez’s statements to defense in May 2003 and his testimony in court yesterday.
Court TV pundit and former prosecutor Andrea Sacco Camacho said neither of the two sides have a noticeable advantage so far in the case.
“The truth is probably somewhere between the two stories,” Camacho said. “Neither story meets the common sense test.”
—Zachary M. Seward contributed to the reporting of this story.
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—Staff writer Robin M. Peguero can be reached at peguero@fas.harvard.edu.