Defense attorney Michael Schwartz stood beneath the clock in courtroom 2F at the Larson Justice Center in Indio on Wednesday, Dec. 6, and, during his opening statement in the voluntary manslaughter trial of a former Los Angeles Police Department officer, directed the jurors’ attention to the second hand on the dial.
“Count three seconds,” said the attorney for Salvador Alejandro Sanchez, who was off duty and not in uniform on June 14, 2019, when he responded to an unprovoked blindside punch...