Trial off to gripping, tearful start - Dallas Morning News
STEPHENVILLE — There are two words we’re bound to hear a lot during the trial of Eddie Ray Routh, the man charged with murdering Chris Kyle and the former Navy SEAL’s running buddy, Chad Littlefield, on a shooting range two years ago. We also saw how painful and emotionally wrenching this will be for the Kyle and Littlefield families to sit through a trial expected to take at least two weeks. But it was defense attorney Tim Moore who dropped the first bombshell during opening arguments when he read a text message that Kyle sent to Littlefield on their 1½-hour drive to Rough Creek Lodge, where they later were gunned down: “This dude is... “He’s right behind me. Watch my six,” Littlefield replied, invoking a military term that means “watch my back. Erath County District Attorney Alan Nash cast that stone first, telling jurors “this man has issues. “I think the term used for people like him is ‘troubled,’” Nash concluded in his opening argument. The real tension in this trial, of course, revolves around defense attorneys’ plan to argue that Routh is not guilty by reason of insanity. Nash urged jurors to “use common sense” when considering all the evidence to determine whether Routh “intentionally and knowingly” committed the brutal crimes. Source: www.dallasnews.com
