I do still bartend from time-to-time, serve tables, clean the bathrooms … because we are a team. Brewing October 2018 as their General Manager, so I currently oversee all FOH (front of house) operations. The last 11 years has been centered around beer. Watts: I have been working in hospitality for almost 17 years now, so I’ve worked in many different restaurant/bar settings within that time frame. SLUG : Where all around town are you a server? How many of those are establishments that serve beer, and which ones? When I am out on the town, guests who come into the taproom, when I am traveling … I look to people and get inspired through them. Watts: I would have to say that I take influence from ALL people. Photo: : What are your stylistic influences? This could be a band, decade, fictional character-anything. Exploring more than just clothing, SLUG Style is an attempt to feature the people who give Salt Lake City flavor through personality and panache. An alternate – there are two who have listened to all of the evidence – was identified to replace the ousted juror.Every month, “ SLUG Style ” features a distinct and unique member of the community and asks them why they do what they do. He was asked to gather all of his things and leave the courthouse. “Please don’t disrupt this process any more than you already have.” “Based on your contact yesterday, and my concerns with your lack of forthrightness, I am dismissing you,” she said to the man. Crazy is not legally insane.”īefore closing arguments, Lee dismissed a juror who, during lunch on Wednesday, approached a TV crew and told them which case he was hearing. “This is kind of insulting to people who are really suffering under mental health issues. “Where are the doctors?” she asked the jury. He said he watched the ‘shooter’ firing senseless shots.”īut while a mental health professional reviewed Thandiwe on Wednesday evening to support adding new verdict choices for the jury, no one evaluated him or testified to his mental well-being. “He acted without being able to control what was going on. Thandiwe describing his out-of-body experience,” Bryant said. In the insane mind of Nkosi Thandiwe, it was the right thing to do.”īryant pointed to witnesses – both strangers and acquaintances – who testified seeing Thandiwe while he was committing the shooting, describing his face as “blank,” or “intense” and even saying his client was “driving like a maniac.” “The State is right, because there is no sense in what happened. “The State got up and said this was a senseless act,” Bryant told the jury. Public defender Wes Bryant borrowed from the prosecutor’s opening statement to suggest that Thandiwe may have been out of his mind when he shot the women. Thursday morning, she added both choices to the verdict sheet the jurors would read during deliberation, and recommended to them that “if the jury determines ‘not guilty by reason of insanity’ to stop deliberations.” Lee, in an unusual move on Wednesday, moved to allow Thandiwe’s attorney to file an insanity defense late in the trial by ordering a mental evaluation be made overnight to determine whether the verdict options of “not guilty by reason of insanity” and “guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, but mentally ill” to the choices the jury had to consider. Thandiwe, 23, was accused of fatally shooting Watts in the neck in a Midtown parking deck as she left her office for lunch, then taking her car, apparently hitting her body as he pulled away, then firing into a crowd of women walking along Crescent Street as he sped off, striking Ferenczy and Garcia and leaving Garcia paralyzed from the waist down.įulton County Superior Court Judge Kelly A. “If race disorder was a, then the Ku Klux Klan could murder and kill with impunity.” “He told you he shot Brittney Watts, Lauren Garcia and Tiffany Ferenczy because he had adopted all these racist ideals,” Fulton County assistant district attorney Linda Dunikoski said to the jury, referring to Thandiwe’s testimony on Wednesday. He was charged with murder, felony murder – causing a death during the commission of a felony – several counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery, carjacking and gun offenses.Ī juror was dismissed earlier Thursday on the fourth day of Thandiwe’s murder trial, and prosecutors told the court that his Jshooting spree was the result of racism, not insanity as his attorney claimed. Thandiwe was found guilty of all the counts against him and the sentencing phase of the trial began immediately. Nothing can be gained by putting him in jail for the rest of his life.” “He’s not the ‘Midtown Shooter,’” she said. His mother, Lynnae Thandiwe, pleaded with the judge for mercy. Thandiwe was convicted Thursday of fatally shooting Watts, paralyzing Lauren Garcia and injuring Tiffany Ferenczy.
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