PORTSMOUTH, Va. — On the second day of a double murder trial in Portsmouth, the accused man, Joseph Cross, declined to take the stand.
He did not say a word as prosecutors played his two interviews with Portsmouth police.
In the first interview, Cross told detectives he had nothing to do with the deaths of twin brothers, Alvin and Calvin Joyner. He said he “didn’t know anything about that” after investigators found the brothers dead from gunshot injuries on Nashville Avenue in 2023…