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Watching for is whether or not he can prove he ended to kill her. and you sound like youre pretty confidence. the prosecution has enough to be able to prove that isnt. >> we would not have charged if we didnt believe so. >> reporter: the prosecution believe there is a strong case with witnesses testimonies. messages on cell phones. forensics at the crime scene. all that will paint oscar as an angry man and extremely jealous. others suggest the prosecutions case seemed to stumble early on. there ...

>> the dna evidence proves that there were no sexual assaults. the fronzices -- forensics proves that as well. the material that does exist, all three defendants are eliminated from it. they couldnt have produced it. and on the other hand, there is evidence consistent with a relative or a family member of one of the victims. and its a hair in one of the ligatures which ties up one of the boys, and thats consistent with terry hobbs, who is the stepfather of stevie branch, one of the victims. >> b...

>> forensics were the case. if we dont get dna off that energy and fingerprints off the letter, we cant authenticate that she had written that. if we dont have the autopsy results that we have and the blood spatter results that we have, we have a whole different ball game here. a young woman just landed her first big modeling job. a few hours later, she disappeared. the weave pattern on some fabric, the mixture of some concrete and some dog hairs were the keys to the mystery. it was a friday n...

But after work he stopped by the deserted camp and dumped his wifes body. the synthetic rayon fibers from larrys trunk liner were transferred to the blanket covering judys body. and larrys shoes picked up the calcite particles from the newly paved limestone, where they were discovered 20 years later by alert forensic scientists. >> the prosecutors were able to put up a good faith effort and tell them this is everything we know using modern forensics about the evidence we do have remaining to us,...

Forensics is now. from this computer forensics was born. in the 1950s, police searched all over california for a man who committed a series of heinous crimes, including murder, all in the same night. they checked literally thousands of leads, but eventually the case went cold. almost five decades later, advances in computer technology and handwriting analysis proved the old adage that you can run but you cant hide. >> mile of mile of sand warmed by the sun. beach beauties everywhere -- >> in t...

With all the learning people got, i knew i had a chance. >> when you look at the evidence and you look at the forensics and what it shows us, alvin was telling the truth. unfortunately, just nobody wanted to accept it or believe it, so they just kept pushing him until he came up with something that they wanted to believe. and they wanted to believe it because they fed it to him. >> today alvin works at the local supermarket stacking shelves. the man who conducted alvins interrogation thinks the ...

This case was built on forensics. the jury deliberated for three and a half days, and then found janice dodson guilty of first-degree murder. she was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. >> when the verdict came in in the courtroom, my legs turned to rubber and all i can do today is i never got a chance, i wanted to thank the jury for all the work they did. >> to investigators and the forensic experts who worked on the case, janice dodson was one step away from committi...

With helping her move beyond her horrifying ordeal. >> i guess a fact that somebody explained to her and explained publicly why she had these confused stories, that she wasnt nuts, and there was a logical explanation for it, gave her a great deal of emotional relief. >> but it was ballistics and the physics of gunpowder patterns that provided conclusive evidence that tom brown was lying. >> i thank god for forensics. i think that they solve a lot of crimes. and the fact that the angle of the sho...

Dunn endorses thug and gang deserts. that opens the door to put jordandays parents on the stand was your son in a gang? is he a gangster? if dunn is going to open this door using basically a narrative to call him that and refer to him as that, i think the prosecutors have to go back and argue in front of this judge they should be able to rebut that. now with evidence that he is not a thug and he is not a gangster. second, thats a great point by that juror. and the prosecutors have to seize on th...

Spot over. thats my feeling. >> cnn miami. >> so what do you think now? >> were reminded of the anatomy of a jury, the things that go on inside that jury room. because there was doubt, they had to go that direction. you know, its interesting to see, no matter what, that struggle to come to consensus, it was impossible. >> and the debate that went on within the jury room is a lot of what our legal experts said was likely to go on. if there was a real threat, when was that threat gone. >> they did...