has this lawyer been reading the same trial transcripts as I have?
Hence my earlier comment that it sounded like this summation was written months before the trial...... it has no connection to the reality of what took place in the courtroom. It's apropos, in a macabre sort of way: delusional lawyers for delusional clients.
it makes more "sense" after reading PH's Lemon Test explanation
it still makes no SENSE-sense, but it becomes comprehensible as a legal gambit