Travis Rudolph and Marc Shiner speak to Linda Kenney Baden – Newly acquitted murder defendant Travis Rudolph, a former football player in college and the NFL, reiterated his self-defense claim, and though he expressed his condolences for the family of the slain Sebastien Jean-Jacques, he said that “for every action, there’s a reaction.”
“And just like my lawyer said yesterday in one of the interviews that you got to take responsibility for your actions,” he told the Law&Crime Network’s Linda Kenney Baden. “It’s unfortunate. It’s unfortunate for their loss. To this day, I pray on the family, I pray on Sebastian, but like I said, you got to take responsibility.”
Travis Rudolph and Marc Shiner speak to Linda Kenney Baden
Attorney Marc Shiner said Rudolph was the victim in this case.
“His family are the victims,” his lawyer said. “There’s no victim named Jean-Jacques in this case. He got what he unfortunately deserved, legally. And unfortunately, his friends weren’t charged. So the victim is sitting next to me.”
Prosecutors said that Rudolph committed murder when he opened fire in Lake Park, Florida, in April 2021, killing Jean-Jacques and injuring Tyler Robinson. That’s not how the jury saw it.
According to trial testimony, after Rudolph’s former girlfriend Dominique Jones caught him cheating, her brother and three other men showed up at a home to confront Rudolph.
“We on demon time,” Rudolph testified this is what the four men said after they came to his mother’s house and confronted him about an argument with his ex-girlfriend.
Jones testified she was more “hurt than angry” on learning about the infidelity. But Rudolph’s brother, Darryl Rudolph Jr., claimed Jones “orchestrated” the confrontation.
Rudolph’s mother, Linda Rudolph, testified in court Monday that Travis’ ex-girlfriend put a hit on him after the two had gotten in a scuffle.
“Mom, you gotta come get your son Travis, because I’m going to have my brothers and his friends come and f— him up and kill him,” the emotional mother testified.
Kenney Baden asked Rudolph if Jones was “in your future.”
“No, not at all,” he said.
