PHILADELPHIA –  A retrial has begun in Philadelphia after a mistrial was announced when a man’s prosthetic eye popped out while he was testifying.
John Huttick was tears on a declare mount in Common Pleas Court final month as he testified about a impact of losing his eye in a Aug 2011 quarrel in a parking lot of a bar. The prosthetic eye popped out and Huttick held it, call a decider to extend a mistrial.
The Philadelphia Daily News reports a aggravated attack retrial began Wednesday.
Prosecutors lay 23-year-old Matthew Brunelli, a onetime bouncer, punched Huttick in a left eye with an intent that might have been a key. Huttick’s eye eventually had to be removed.
Brunelli’s attorney, Eileen Hurley, says her customer used his fist to urge himself.
