[Coren:] Welcome back. Well, former mobster Whitey Bulger says his murder trial is a sham. Bulger lost his temper and got angry in court yesterday. Well, he is charged in connection with 19 murders and in dramatic fashion, Bulger waited until the final moments to announce a pivotal decision. Deborah Feyerick has the story.
[Deborah Feyerick, Cnn Correspondent:] Lawyers for James "Whitey" Bulger waited until the very last witness had testified before telling the court the reputed crime bust would not take the stand. Bulger addressed the judge calling it was a choice made involuntarily. He had wanted to argue that he was given immunity for is crimes by the former head of New England's organized crime strike force run by the justice department. Well, Bulger appeared angry. He was shaking his finger at the judge and said he was, quote "choked off from making an adequate defense," and he said, quote "I didn't get a fair trial. This is a sham. Do what you want with me." Well, the wife of one of the murder victims shouted, you are a coward. Patricia Donahue's husband, an innocent truck driver, was killed in the cross fire of a murder Bulger allegedly committed.
[Patricia Donahue, Mother Of Alleged Victim:] I yelled out you're a coward because that's what he is. When you claim immunity when you believe that you have immunity and then you kill all these people and then you go to trial and you try to blame it on the justice department and then say, I didn't have a fair trial, well, get up there and tell us that.
[Feyerick:] Bulger's lawyer seemed to have two goals during their week- long defense. First, try to cast doubt on who killed two of the 19 victims, both of them women. Second, shift the blame onto the FBI, specifically agents who either did nothing or did too little to prevent several murders. Bulger's crime partner, Steve "the" "the rifle man" said he saw Bulger strangled the women. But the defense team, however, presented evidence that Flemmi had the greater motive to kill his owned girlfriend and his stepdaughter. The girlfriend, Debbie Davis was about to leave him for another man. A witness testified that Flemmi admitted he quote "accidentally strangled" unquote the stunning 26- year-old. Flemmi acknowledged he lured her to a home because Bulger strangled her because she was talking too much and had become a liability. As for Flemmi's common law stepdaughter, Deborah Hussy, Bulger's lawyers presented evidence that Flemmi had apparently didn't sexually abusing the girl for years. He also called her among other things that prostitute doing drugs. Flemmi says he took her shopping before bringing her to a home where Bulger was waiting. And he said Bulger got a perverse high in strangling her. A number of retired FBI agents and supervisors also took the stand. Several testified they believed Bulger should be shut down as an informant because he wasn't providing useful information. However, they never pressed the issue because apparently FBI headquarters felt Bulger was useful in taking down the mafia. Defense lawyers spent weeks trying to refute the notion that he was an informant which raises the question what was Bulger providing that would in his mind have given him immunity for the crimes in which he is accused, 19 murders, 13 counts of extortion and racketeering. Closing arguments are set for Monday. Each side has three hours and then the fate of James "Whitey" Bulger will be decided. Deborah Feyerick, CNN, New York.
[Coren:] Coming up, a CNN exclusive on the Whitey Bulger trial. You will hear from a key witness. A former FBI agent who spent years trying to take down former mobster Whitey Bulger. Stay tuned.