“They tried too hard here,” Pocker said in his closing argument. attorney David Kiebler said in his closing argument Thursday that the evidence in all three robberies pointed to the same man: Caleb Rogers.īut Pocker, the officer’s lawyer, called the bulk of the government’s evidence circumstantial and convenient for a police department that already had been trying for months - to no avail - to solve the other robberies when Rogers was arrested. And a 63-year-old cashier said she still looks over her shoulder when she handles cash at work.Īssistant U.S. He said he couldn’t stop thinking about how he might not have made it home to his family that day. A security guard wrestled with the suspect for his loaded weapon during one of the heists. Jurors also heard from casino employees who said they are still haunted by their encounters with the robber. They said he had a unique set of skills and knowledge about robberies as a law enforcement officer and used that to his advantage.
Throughout the weeklong trial, prosecutors had portrayed Rogers as a gambling addict who had grown increasingly desperate under a crush of debt when the robberies targeting casinos off the Las Vegas Strip began.
