General Discussion

In his testimony, Ross claimed that after he approached Muñoz-Guatemala, the man asked for his attorney.
In court, Eric Newmark, who was representing Muñoz-Guatemala, noted that even government lawyers hadn’t previously heard this assertion. “I think he just made it up on the stand,” Newmark told the judge. “He never said it before. I think he said it for a particular reason”—allegedly to show that Muñoz-Guatemala was aware that he was being apprehended by law enforcement and not attacked by a masked carjacker. A prosecutor in the case conceded that the claim was “grounds for impeachment” against Ross because he “did not previously say that—as far I know.”
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