Darryl Perlin News Today

>> the officer who found that persian violet. >> where was that, sir? >> between his legs. >> the witness phil jones had approached asking for a gun. >> he asked me to forget we had the conversation, which i thought was outrageous. >> mindy was no kindly grandmother, argues the prosecutor. she was the schemer, the planner, lady macbeth who wanted jarrod dead, but she made a fatal mistake, he said, when she left her dna on that persian violet. prosecutor perlin lingered over the powerful statisti...

The movement of the vehicle that they were in was going south on 101. >> toward santa barbara. >> toward santa barbara. they werent at the beach, like they claimed. they were, in fact, on a mission, and that mission was to assassinate jarrod davidson. >> the cell phone records, said the prosecutor, proved something else, too, that kelly had lied to the grand jury about her parents alibi. so perlin charged kelly with murder as well, for aiding and abetting her parents. >> i think they were graspi...

After divorce. >> he touched me. >> he already knew about the allegations of child molestation and how they had been thrown out, but now prosecutor perlin dug right back to the beginning and found in family law documents, evidence of two young people from very different backgrounds thrown together by an unplanned pregnancy. both were college kids, and though they were thrilled with their new baby, the marriage was doomed. >> probably a few months after she was born it started going downhill, but...

Darryl perlin. >> i knew from day one that there was no way that malinda jean jones did this by herself. >> mindy, the prosecutor came to believe, made the decisions, while phil did her bidding. and so he charged both phil and mindy with first-degree murder, and then upped the ante by charging the additional factor of lying in wait, which, if proven, means a sentence of death or life without parole. but the prosecutor knew he needed more than a spot of dna or the story about a gun that didnt exi...

Besides, as the prosecutor already knew, phil and mindy jones had an alibi for that night, and kelly had backed it up when she testified before a grand jury. >> when i called, my mom goes, yeah, we are going for a drive on the beach. its a beautiful night. you can see all the stars, you know. it is really pretty. and thats what i told the grand jury. what was it that made you convinced they were at the beach? well, i heard something in the background, very possibly could have been the waves, or ...

Her house, looking for a weapon or any other evidence that would tie her to the murder. and nothing. no gun. no clothes that matched descriptions given by the witnesses. in fact, the only item of any use at all seemed to be an address book. number after number, they called everybody in it until they came across a man who, after much prodding, admitted that phil jones, mindys husband, had asked him for an unregistered, untraceable gun. the man claimed he refused, but for phil, the story only got ...

>> didnt consider it a murder? phil had been warned by the judge not to talk about motive, that discredited allegation of sex abuse. but here, he seemed to be pushing the envelope. even as prosecutor perlin tried to maintain control, phil hinted for the jury at some powerful, unstated reason for killing jarrod. >> we were not plotting or conniving. we were very upset. it was a spur-of-the-moment thing. >> here in the courtroom, mindy was seeing her dying husband for the first time in eight month...