I had an opportunity to sit with 3 defense lawyers and talk about the trial last week. Two of whom called Box (defense for Ersland) to offer to help and were turned down.
Upshot was that Box was grandstanding throughout the trial and seemed to do his level best to piss off the judge and DA.
As was mentioned before, the video does NOT show what the kid was doing after the shooting, and in the CC class I attended (former Deputy Sheriff, Treasurer of ORA) the instructor stressed that if you pull the gun, you will shoot, and keep shooting until the bad guy stops moving, even if you have to reload.
As for the comments about the jury, well, they all averred that they hadn't seen any press coverage of the incident. If true, IMHO, they were extremely gullible about the presentation of the evidence. I also have not seen if any of the jurors were CC holders or not. That would be an interesting factoid to know.
And, yes, mama was on the TV saying what a good boy he was and that he was turning his life around.
At least the two knuckleheads that sent the boys in the pharmacy were convicted, too.