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February 7th, 2013
07:36 PM ET
Witness literally cries his eye out; mistrial declared
A court hearing in Philadelphia took an unforeseen turn when a witness, testifying about the consequences of losing his left eye in an alleged assault, began crying and his prosthetic eyeball popped out of its socket and into his hand, unsettling the jury and resulting in a mistrial, according to attorneys involved.
"I've been a prosecutor for 26 years and I've never seen anything like that happen. It was unusual; it was shocking," said Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney Mark Gilson, who is prosecuting Mathew Brunelli, 23, charged with aggravated assault, for allegedly stabbing John Huttick in the eye during a bar fight in August 2011.
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That is more common than you think. It had happened to me several times while cooking.
Awwww, little Jeffy is jealous of Patrick...how saWEET....and oh, so cute.
He was literally falling apart up there.
You are one sick puck aint ya chucky?
...huttick shouldn't pick a fight wittah a guy who loves rib eye...
That was real "eye-catching" testimony.
eye eye eye eye yaye