Fulton County prosecutors rested their murder case against Claud “Tex” McIver after 16 days of testimony, but not before a former media consultant testified Tuesday that the attorney suggested he could share a “success bonus” with Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard if the DA reduced or dropped criminal charges against him.

Defense lawyers presented a single witness—the chief financial officer of a kaolin mining company in which McIver had held a 10 percent interest until he sold it in January 2017—before launching into arguments intended to persuade Fulton County Chief Judge Robert McBurney to toss out three counts of influencing witnesses.

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