Day 4

After a 38 minute, unexplained, delay we are now back in session.

Brian Bacchus with the Office Of Planning and Development is back on the stand talking about his office’s denial of a billboard Joe Cooper’s boss wanted at I-240 and Steve Road. This is the project Cooper said he was buying Ford’s help with.

Bacchus says the infrastructure was not in place in the area for a billboard and it didn’t fit a previously approved plan for a housing development in the area thus the denial.

 10:39 a.m.

Prosecution rests its case.

At this point, the defense is asking the case be dismissed because the prosecution has not met its burden of proof. This is standard in every trial at this point and as usual it was denied.