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WEBVTT D HAS MORE ON WHAT HAPPENEDTHIS MORNING IN COURT.TERRI: THE LEAD DETECTIVEEXPLAINING HOW MY SOUL --MICHAEL CUSTER SAID HE SHOT SCHATOMS.HE SAID HE HAD PINNED ATOMSBETWEEN HIS TRUCK DOOR BUT ADAMSWAS RUMMAGING AROUND IN THETRUCK.CUSTER SAID HE FELT SURE HE WASREACHING FOR A GUN.SUDDENLY, SETH ADAM TURNS.CUSTER SAYS HE THOUGHT HE HAD AGUN AND SHOT BETWEEN THE TRUCK.SETH ADAMS' ATTORNEY SAYS, THENHOW DID THE BLOOD AND THE BULLETCASINGS END UP BACK HERE BEHINDTHE TRUCK?THE ATTORNEYS FOR THE SHERIFFSAY SETH SPUN AND WAS MOVING, ITWAS A FLUID MOTION, AND THAT ISHOW THE BLOOD COULD HAVE ENDEDUP BACK HERE.

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On his second day on the stand in the Seth Adam’s multi-million dollar wrongful death trial, former lead PBSO detective Christopher Neuman said he didn’t have to reconcile conflicting evidence about the night Sgt. Michael Custer shot and killed Seth Adams. “My job was to collect evidence and send it to the State Attorney,” said Neuman. A Sheriff’s Office attorney asked Neuman on cross –examination, if Custer was under stress and might not remember events correctly when he gave his account two days later of how he killed Adams. Neuman agreed that was likely. He also agreed that the shooting was a fluid event, and that Adams could have been moving as Custer was firing into his body. Download WPBF 25 News App: Apple IOS | Android “He was spinning out, right?” asked Custer attorney Summer Barranco. “It wasn’t a pirouette?” However, under re-direct, Adams’ family attorney Wallace McCall hammered Neuman with questions about how he reconciled the conflicting evidence his own investigators found at the scene. “Did you ever reconcile in your own mind as the lead detective how the blood trail started 8 – 10 feet away (from where Custer said he shot Adams)?” asked McCall.“I don’t think I had to reconcile that,” Neuman answered. McCall also pointed to the bullet casings all being found at the rear of Adams’ truck, not near the door where Custer said he’d pinned Adams and shot him rapidly four times. He showed the jury photographs of Custer giving a sworn statement to detectives, indicating how he was holding his gun when he shot it. Custer was holding his hand palm down, as though he was holding the gun horizontally. “That means the bullet casings would eject where?” McCall asked. “Down toward the ground,” Neuman answered. Earlier he had said the casings could have been kicked around to explain why they were so far from the truck door where Custer said he shot Adams. Repeatedly, McCall brought up witness statements and evidence that conflicted with Custer’s account and asked Neuman if he considered those in his report. “Did you raise those issues?” asked McCall. “It’s their (the State Attorney) job to look through the information,” said Neuman. “So it wasn’t your job to solve this case?” asked McCall. “No, it was my job,” Neuman answered. “Are you going to tell this jury under oath you did your job?” McCall said. “Yes, I did my job,” Neuman answered. McCall also showed the jury a series of emails originating with Neuman to his superiors about paramedics entering the crime scene. In one email, a Sgt. writes to a Lieutenant: “This is how we roll – just getting my evil plan started.” The Adams’ attorneys allege the Sheriff’s Office engaged in an “evil plan” cover-up to suppress evidence at the scene, including the disappearance of Custer’s cell phone. It was originally found under Custer’s front passenger seat, but not taken into evidence. Custer said in a deposition that he could not explain why his phone was under the seat, after he found it fallen on the ground near the shooting scene. Lawyers implied the phone may have contained compromising text messages or emails between Custer and another person who might have been at the scene. They brought up a mysterious puddle of condensation photographed next to Custer’s vehicle, that they indicated could have come from another vehicle. Under cross-examination, Sheriff’s attorney Baranco zoomed in on the photo, comparing it to puddles left by rainfall, or other wet spots typically found in a plant nursery. Testimony continues, with lawyers planning to show jurors the Glock handgun Custer used to shoot Adams.