“He got into my face. He said, 'This is my house,' ” Owens said, adding at one point his fists were clenched. Owens' attention was split. He was concerned that the nephew might be retrieving a weapon from the bathroom.

Lee “got into his face” again and Owens pushed him down onto a carpet. He told Gray to handcuff Lee. After Gray handcuffed Lee's right hand, he tensed up and wouldn't give up his left hand. Owens struck him on his side with his knee, then used the Taser until “he gave up his left hand.”

Lee was arrested and charged with aggravated resisting/obstructing a police officer. He had been released from jail Sept. 6 after serving a 30-day sentence for theft. Lee has served 13 prison terms since 1974, for armed robbery, robbery, armed violence and other crimes. Jurors did not hear about his criminal record. Lee's complaint in this case was written in prison in January 2014, while serving a 4½-year sentence for theft.

A 38-year-old woman testified Tuesday that she was at the apartment of Ira Lee, her boyfriend's uncle, when the officers entered.

“I seen them Tasing him,” she said, adding that the officers used the Taser on him probably a couple of times.

Under cross-examination, the woman said she and her boyfriend had been drinking gin all day.