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>> thats a common motion made by most defense attorneys when they ask a judge to throw out a case, especially due to a lack of evidence. >> you always do it. its frankly malpractice not to. >> everyone thought this would be an order of business, quickly dispatched. and the judge would move on to setting a new trial date. >> then he starts talking about the lack of evidence parding the possession of gun and charlie not having the gun. lack of evidence that the fingerprints for found on the shells...

My friends i did it. people i hadnt even heard of were supporting him. people from the community, everyone was doing it. >> how much money did you raise? >> around $50,000, yeah. >> why did people come out of the wood work to support charlie? >> he has been one of the nicest guys ever, and everybody knew that and they wanted to do anything they could to give back to him. charlie would give everything to other people. if somebody needed anything he would be the one to give it to them. >> reporter...

>> hes one of the most generous and selfless people ive ever met. >> he impressed his teammates and coach. >> good football player, always quiet, always got a smile, never late, good worker, good kid, solid. >> go back to the handsome house in the rochester suburbs where charlie grew up in his teenage years. its a place called pittsford, new york. and newspaper reporter john hand knows it well. >> its a very nice community, very picturesque community. >> thick lawns, nice cars in the garage? >> ...

A report from the house on coach side lane. >> 911. >> just two weeks before the shooting, police records show the wife placed another 911 call. >> yes, my name is jean tan, and my husband just beat me up. i need your protections. >> are you injured? >> yes, he choke me, and im so scared. please. please help. oh, hes coming. no. please come. >> the dispatcher heard what sounded like an ongoing fight between husband and wife. >> hello. sorry. >> no. >> no, no. >> sorry about that. >> help me, hel...

Hed used a shotgun. >> charlie said, my dads in there. hes dead. i had to do it. he was going to hurt my mom. >> the father is shot because the boy feels his mothers in jeopardy. >> yes. >> it was getting late on a frigid february night. the deputies put the son and mother in the patrol car. >> they asked him where the shotgun was. there was some mention of it be being in the garage. >> reporter: after securing the weapon, they made their way to the second floor. in the home office they found th...

Differently. >> unfortunately for charlies attorneys, theyd already played their surprise defense, mom really did it. there would be no shock value in a second trial. >> frankly, weve got to face this like a brand-new case starting today. hung juries are a case in which you have to reinvent the wheel. >> in november of 2015, weeks after the trial ended, both sides were back in the same court, before the same judge, who two days earlier had won the state supreme court seat. it was a routine heari...

By most defense attorneys when they ask a judge to throw out a case, especially due to a lack of evidence. >> you always do did. its frankly malpractice not to. >> everyone thought this would be an order of business, quickly dispatched. >> then he talks about the lack of evidence, that the fingerprints were found on the shells upstairs, but that didnt indicate that hed ever shot it. i looked at another reporter who i know and i said whats going on here? >> charlies lawyers had a glimmer about wh...

Office isnt going to walk away from a homicide. >> how will it look differently? >> better for me. thats how it will look differently. >> unfortunately for charlies attorneys, theyd already played their surprise defense, mom really did it. there would be no shock value in a second trial. >> frankly, weve got to face this like a brand-new case starting today. huchk hung juries are a situation where you have to reinvent the wheel. >> in november of 2015, weeks after the trial ended, both sides wer...

It turns out a very large piece of evidence was waiting to be found right there in their very office. a report from the house on coach side lane. >> 911. >> just two weeks before the shooting, police records show the wife placed another 911 call. >> yes, my name is jean tan, and my husband just beat me up. i need your protections. >> are you injured? >> yes, he choke me, and im so scared. please. please help. oh, hes coming. no. please come. >> the dispatcher heard what sounded like an ongoing f...

>> why did people come out of the wood work to support charlie? >> he has been one of the nicest guys ever, and everybody knew that and they wanted to do anything they could to give back to him. charlie would give everything to other people. if somebody needed anything he would be the one to give it to them. >> reporter john hand was working on one of the biggest stories they had seen in years. so now its an investigation for you, news story. great ivy league kid blows away his father in this ni...