GREEN RIVER — If you ask the prosecutor who tried a Haitian trucker this week for killing an EMT with his truck nearly three years ago on Interstate 80, he was trying to “thread the needle” through a crash scene where everyone was going too slowly for him.

But if you ask 46-year-old Saviol Saint Jean’s defense attorney, the former Haitian police officer and newly-trained commercial truck driver was, rather, navigating a chaotic scene for which Wyoming authorities should have closed the road but didn’t.

The jury heard these arguments during the closing statements, which ended about 4:20 p.m. Wednesday. Then Sweetwater County District Court Judge Richard Lavery sent the jurors home for the night and told them to return at 8:30 a.m. Thursday for deliberations.

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