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Arraignment week. All eyes will be split between atlanta and, d. C. This, week in georgia on wednesday, arraignment day for the 19 defendants and the case led by Fulton County d. A. Fani willis. Trump pleaded not guilty and 11 of his codefendants waived their right to a day in court. Meanwhile, key witness and former white house Chief Of Staff mark meadows is waiting to hear if his georgia case will move up to Federal Court. And the Georgia Special grand jury report is set to be released on frid...

>> this was a relatively contained crime seen. a lot of impact blood spattered. >> gardner carefully examined everything the doctor had been wearing that morning. a lot of the blood on his clothing could be explained by his attempt to administer cpr. but the expert looked at hamiltons shoes, the left one in particular, and found that to be a different matter. the shoes were found next to susans body. john said they fell off his feet as he was attempting to revive her. the expert believed whoever...

Curious stains on the doctors shirt, the blood expert thought he saw a similarity between the angular shape and the wound created on susans head. his theory was the stains on the shirt were left by the murder weapon as it came in contact with the garment. of course he didnt have the actual murder weapon to make a true comparison, but he was able to leave the jury with a vivid impression the doctors shirt may have taken a kind of photograph in blood. >> it took a 1 to 1 image of mrs. hamiltons he...

>> after arriving at the crime scene, investigators placed john in the back of a police car. and it was there they noticed something else odd. detective teresa sterling. >> he was acting very upset. he was scraping his knuckles on the mesh screen in the police car. he was banging his head into the screen. he was acting bizarre. >> by that afternoon, police had taken the doctor down to the station. they took his clothes as evidence and placed him in an interview room for hours on end, watching, t...

The other says its his shirt that convicts him. they dont agree. >> hamilton hired a new toerngs rob nigh, to appeal the verdict. >> ive been doing criminal trials and appeals for two years and i have never seen a case like dr. hamiltons where the defense expert offered the most compelling evidence against the defendant. >> one of their arguments was that tom bevel should never have been allowed to testify. >> either tom bevel lied to the defense about what his testimony would be or defense coun...

I was -- a million thoughts were running through my head. the major one is that id lost the love of my life. i was never going to see susan again. >> theyre going to accuse you of trying to cover up the scratches that susan made defensively as you were killing her. >> if susan had scratched me wouldnt you assume they would have found tissue, blood, dna of some sort under her fingernails? nothing was found. it was looked for extensively. >> prosecutors had made a big deal about the doctor showing...

His shirt. >> if you can get whiplash in a courtroom, thats what happened. the defenses expert was saying that dr. jon hamm illton most likely created those bloodstains by bashing in his wifes skull. >> it was a shock to everybody. nobody expected that to happen. >> sure. hes saying, look at his shirt. >> the expert is almost saying hes guilty. >> causing the blood spatter. its a vivid picture. >> it sure is. >> on redirect, hamiltons lawyer tried to defuse the bombshell testimony by suggesting ...

The murder weapon was never found, so you dont have an object to compare it against. >> and the shoe splattered with susans blood from different directions as she was being killed, not necessarily a killers shoe, countered the defense expert, but the shoe of dr. hamilton as he gave his wife cpr. >> he jumped out of his loafer shoes, which would have reoriented them and he jumped over to her side and knelt down to try and assist her and to do cpr. >> bevel was the last witness in the trial. and f...

>> soon after their arrival, investigators started questioning dr. john hamilton himself. by then there had been that neighbors tip about problems in the hamilton marriage, and that wasnt all. the doctors behavior in the minutes after finding susan dead seemed off. hamilton had told the 911 operator he was performing cpr, but when the first responder, firefighter david bradbury, arrived on the scene, he thought there was something odd about the way the dock tosh was performing chest compressions...

Im natalie morales now with the conclusion of the "valentines day mystery." here again is dennis murphy. >> tom bevel, the blood spatter expert hired by dr. john baxter hamilton had wrapped up his testimony with the defense attorneys. then came the prosecutor wes lanes turn on cross-examination. now, courtroom lawyers like to talk about perry mason moments when a trial is electrified by unexpected testimony, but it hardly ever happens. it did in this case though. did it ever. the prosecutor toss...