
Lawyers for two of Aretha Franklin’s sons urged a Michigan jury Tuesday to declare a 2014 document as the music superstar's valid will, saying there’s nothing legally significant about finding the handwritten papers in a notebook in her couch.
It's “inconsequential. ... You can take your will and leave it on the kitchen counter. It's still your will,” Charles McKelvie said in closing arguments in a suburban Detroit court before the jury began deliberations.