Dale Hausner’s defense attorney, Ken Everett, questions a witness during the first weeks of his client’s eight-count murder trial. Pool photo
Live from the courtroom: Confessed killer Samuel Dieteman took the stand again this morning in the eight-count murder trial against his former roommate, Serial Shooter suspect Dale Hausner. This time, he’s facing Hausner’s aggressive, dogged defense attorney, Ken Everett, who is expected to attack Dieteman’s every assertion and turn up the heat on the star witness of the case.
Already, Everett has pressed Dieteman on the ins and outs of his agreement to testify against Hausner, even questioning the 33-year-old about the antidepressant and anti-anxiety medications he’s on. At one point, Everett even implied that Dieteman was planning to back out of his agreement, in which he also pleaded guilty to two murders, after he, as the attorney put it, “finked” on Hausner.
“Your attorney and you aren’t going to try to get out of it later?” asked Everett.
Dieteman said, no, they were not.
“You’re not going to use the medication as an excuse to get out of it later?” Everett said.
“I’m not the one making excuses to get out of things,” Dieteman said, his comment directed squarely at Hausner.
So far, Dieteman is holding up well under pressure, even correcting Everett whenever the attorney makes a mistake on facts. However, things are just getting started for the week and we’ll see whether Dieteman can remain steady throughout the constant barrage of accusations, expected to last the majority of the week.