RUSH EXCERPT:
GOWDY: "I was in the courtroom when he said that. my reaction was to be stunned. if you are the lawyer giving summation, the job of the jury is to apply the facts to the law. how can a lawyer make an argument, closing argument to the jury whether you are a prosecutor or defense attorney without making reference to the law. what I used to say is I think the judge is going to tell you the law was x. if he tells you something or she tells you something otherwise, follow what the judge tells you. every judge in America will allow you to say that except the one presiding over this trial. he has made it clear one of the few times he ever sustained an objection against the prosecution by the defense was because they were talking about the law. how do you convince a jury that the fact don’t match the law if the judge is not allowing you to argue the law. I’ve never seen that before. I’ve never seen a judge not allow the jury instructions to go back with the jury. how can you remember fiftysomething pages work of archaic legal instruction based on your memory. how can you do that?"