Now it’s Tony’s turn, and he’s planning to call — nobody?
After listening to some 17 weeks of prosecution witnesses testify against him, Anthony Marshall finally gets to present his own witnesses in the Brooke Astor swindle trial today. But barring any last-minute changes in plans, he won’t even call the Alzheimer’s expert he’s had sitting in the courtroom audience for much of the trial.
“We do not intend to call any witnesses tomorrow,” Marshall’s lawyer John Cuti told the judge yesterday.
Marshall will rely on the points he scored with jurors during cross-examination of more than 70 witnesses for the prosecution, which contends Marshall, 86, strong-armed his philanthropist mother out of more than $60 million in bequests promised to charities.
Co-defendant estates lawyer Francis Morrissey plans to rest his own defense case this morning, with closing arguments tentatively slated for next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Jurors will likely get the case by week’s end.