Family Cousin Was 10: What Tanner Horner Did to Him | Pt 64 | Athena Strand Murder Trial

Описание: A first-name-only family member took the stand today and told the jury the man who killed Athena Strand has to pay for what he did.

Tanner Horner pleaded guilty on Day 1 of this trial. The jury is deciding death or life. The state has now rested its case-in-chief, the defense has rested its mitigation case, and we are inside the state's rebuttal phase, where prosecutors call the witnesses meant to undercut the broken brain mitigation defense and seat future dangerousness for the jury's deliberation on Special Issue Number One.

This witness was protected by the court. He testified using only his first name. The public record will not carry his last name. He is a family member. His uncle had a child with Tanner Horner's mother, and he was raised as Tanner's cousin. He grew up around the defendant from age three. Today he told the jury about two sexual assault incidents from his childhood, and a moment in the back of a vehicle on a Fourth of July night when Tanner Horner, in his late teens, said he wondered what it would be like to kill somebody.

The state is presenting this witness as the future-dangerousness lock the jury needs for Special Issue Number One. Watch the defense cross. They are not going to attack the witness. They are going to use him to seat the broken brain mitigation context the defense's own experts spent nine sessions of testimony laying out. The same household. The same addiction. The same childhood chaos. Sourced through a state witness this time.

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WATCH WITH JUSTICE

11:51 to 13:23 - The cousin introduces himself. Family connection seated. He has known Tanner Horner since he was three years old, raised as cousins on a shared property.

13:23 to 14:40 - How the state found him. He posted on Facebook two to three weeks before trial after he says repeated requests to defense investigators to be put in contact with the prosecution went unfulfilled.

15:36 to 16:57 - The first sexual assault. Lake Worth Lake. He was ten. Tanner was thirteen. Listen to the answer about why he complied.

19:19 to 20:28 - The line the state needed. Riding home with a friend on a Fourth of July night. Listen to what Tanner Horner said in that vehicle, and listen to what triggered in the witness's head when Tanner actually did it.

21:50 to 23:42 - Defense cross opens. Watch them shift the dates earlier on the strength of school records, and then watch them seat the addiction-saturated household environment using the state's own witness.

24:08 to 25:29 - The mental health crisis the cousin personally witnessed. Tanner's grandmother taking him to the hospital. The broken brain narrative gets corroboration through a state rebuttal witness.

25:29 to 26:06 - State redirect. The cousin tells the jury, in his own words, why he came forward.

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