After court dismissed just after 8 p.m., members of Chervon Alexander’s family clapped as prosecutors walked up to them. A member of the Alexander group said the family did not want to comment publicly at the moment.
The elder Bickham took the witness stand in his own defense Tuesday afternoon.
Bickham’s defense attorney, Michael Clancy, used his client’s testimony to attack prosecution contentions that he masterminded a plot to kill Alexander in order to avoid going through with a planned August wedding, despite not having started divorce proceedings with his wife of 12 years.
Clancy walked the senior Bickham through testimony that implicated his son as the main suspect, a young man angry at his father’s plans to marry Alexander and leave the state.