Prosecutor Don Rees told jurors that Jeremy Christian threw the first shoves. Defense attorney Dean Smith said a man injured in the stabbing, Micah Fletcher, turned the altercation physical by trying to force Christian off the MAX train, and he defended Christian's escalating the fight by pulling out a knife
We'll be releasing regular updates throughout the trial of Jeremy Christian, the man accused of killing two men and wounding a third on a MAX train in May 2017.
For more, listen to a recent episode of Beat Check with The Oregonian, in which two reporters laid out what to expect as the trial gets underway.
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