Defense attorney Patrick J. Thomassey's got new angle on the Gammage case. On Wednesday, December 3rd, he suggested that Jonny Gammage disobeyed police orders and became agressive after being stopped on Route 51 because he had a small bag of marijuana in the car he was driving and feared that the police would link the drugs to the car's owner, former Pittsburgh Steeler and cousin Ray Seals.

The defense attorney offered this new theory to the jury as a possible explanation for why Gammage disobeyed police orders and got out of the luxury car after being stopped by Brentwood police Lt. Milton E. Mulholland a little time before 2 in the morning, October 12th, 1995.

Thomassey proposed that Gammage feared that the police might make a connection with Ray Seals, slandering him.

He also used his opening to remind jurors about the dangers of police work, telling them that notorious criminals, including Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and Timothy McVeigh were picked up in traffic stops.

This is the second trial of Mulholland and Patrolman Michael G. Albert. The first trial ended in a mistrial last year.

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