“I just feel like, before we get into all of, you know, this,” Coltrane Wessmann said, gesturing broadly at the courtroom, the prosecution, the federal seal, the American flag, the federal judge, “I think it’s important for the jury to have context. Because Dustin’s a good guy. Dustin’s a good guy. Dustin was, I would say, the third or fourth most law-abiding member of our friend group, and that’s accounting for the fact that two of those guys are now dead and one of them is currently in Wyoming, which I’m not going to get into.”

Until next week. Stay weird.

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