Kalamazoo County Assistant Prosecutor Jeff Williams, gives his open remarks to the jury in the Nathan Branham murder trial at the Kalamazoo County Courthouse in Kalamazoo, Michigan on Wednesday, July 17, 2019. Branham is accused of murdering Michael McIntyre, 52, with a baseball bat after McIntyre was allegedly trying to break into a marijuana grow on Branham’s property in Kalamazoo Township on Sept. 30, 2018. Branham is charged with open murder and manufacturing marijuana. Branham’s defense attorney, Donald Sappanos, reserved his opening remarks until later in the trial.