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Friend: Pepper's Market victim bullied defendant
Prosecution rests its case
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Joseph Williams, right, leans in to talk with attorney Travis Williams on Tuesday in Hall County Superior Court. Joseph Williams is accused in the June 2013 shooting death of 37-year-old Adrian Thompson outside Pepper’s Grocery & Market on E.E. Butler Parkway in Gainesville.
A longtime friend of murder defendant Joseph Scott Williams said he was bullied, demeaned and pushed by the victim. “This was a man backed against a wall like a child whose father has been beating on them,” Anthony Tate said from the witness stand Tuesday in Hall County Superior Court in Gainesville. Tate said the 33-year-old Williams felt he had “no way out” when Adrian Thompson, 37, was gunned down on June 3, 2013, in the Pepper’s Grocery & Market parking lot.