Overview
- Both sides rested after prosecutors played a stitched bodycam and street-camera video that showed the shooting and Det. Jonathan Diller’s final moments at the hospital.
- Guy Rivera declined to testify, and his attorney asked the judge to allow a criminally negligent homicide instruction as a lesser included charge.
- Prosecutors opposed the request and said the videos and witness accounts show an intentional shooting during the Far Rockaway traffic stop.
- Rivera is charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder of a police officer, and weapons offenses, and a conviction on the top count would mean life in prison without parole.
- Key evidence for jurors includes DNA tying Rivera to two guns recovered at the scene and emotional testimony from Det. Veckash Khedna and Sgt. Sasha Rosen describing the struggle and gunfire.