And the family's side, he said, seems to be losing the war of words at these daily pressers. "The detective-union guy [Mike Palladino]—he's got a lot of balls," said Hunt. "No one on our side's got the balls." A speech by the NAACP's Leroy Gadsden, he said, "made me sick in my stomach." Hunt called it typical "watered-down politician shit." Hunt noted that the detectives' defense team has made a big deal of the fact that some of the prosecution witnesses have criminal records. It frustrated Hunt that the Bells' side hadn't countered that point.

"Everybody from my neighborhood's got a record—I mean, I got a past," Hunt said. Most young men in the neighborhoods where he and Bell grew up, Hunt said, either "got a record or are dead."

He was also frustrated by the defense lawyers' repeated attempts to show that Bell was drunk and out of control the morning he was killed. Hunt conceded that Bell most likely was drunk—after all, it was his bachelor party.

"I know the night of my bachelor party," he said, "I did everything—'Hey, let me get some of that,' " he added, imitating a dope smoker. "Because you know tomorrow, once you're married, there's no more doing anything."

More to the point, Hunt said: "All they're talking about is Sean's alcohol level. What about the cops' alcohol level? No one tested them. They were drinking that night, too."