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Kleine: Find Bormann Guilty of First-Degree Murder

POSTED: 11:05 am CDT September 24, 2008
UPDATED: 1:59 pm CDT September 24, 2008

Douglas County attorney Don Kleine urged jurors to find Kyle Bormann guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday morning during closing arguments at the Douglas County courthouse.

Bormann entered the courtroom around 9:07 a.m. He wore the striped collared shirt and khaki pants that he had been wearing throughout the trial.

Jurors must consider whether the state proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Bormann purposefully, deliberately and with premeditated intent and malice, killed Brittany Williams

"This is about as serious a case as you can get," Kleine said. "But it's not a difficult case. Brittany Williams was extraordinary human being. She had hopes and dreams and aspirations like all of us do, and she was living those dreams."

Kleine said the defense had done well in trying to deflect the focus of what happened to Williams, who was shot in the head in January while sitting in her car at a north Omaha fast-food restaurant.

The defense has questioned detectives' tactics for interviewing Bormann and their reports of what exactly Bormann said when he was taken into custody after the shooting.

"Do I wish we had cruiser recording? Sure. Do I wish we had Kyle Bormann's computer? Sure," Kleine said. But cases weren't always simplified by technology, he said, and those cases were solved by trusting the credibility of the witnesses.

One of the witnesses after the shooting, detective Doug Herout, was a "good detective," Kleine said.

"He's [detective Herout] not going to torture [Bormann], stick his head under water, or point a gun to his head. He's not going to threaten him in any way," Kleine said. But of course, he's going to use tactics of befriending and minimizing, trying to see what he can get out of him."

Kleine said the detectives' questioning was done "by the books" and all of Bormann's statements were "freely and voluntarily made."

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