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Things together for investigators in what theyre calling a strong case. they say paul canaro returned to ocean township after the killings and set his own house on fire trying to conceal evidence from his brothers house and make it look like the whole family was targeted. >> based on our investigation to date, we believe the defendants motive was financial in nature, stemming from his and the victims joint business ventures that they owned and operated out of asbury important. each murder count ...

Dries coming out of the tub or shower? >> yes. >> at home? >> at home. >> if the faxing juror was correct, the panel had directly violated the judges instructions to consider only what they had heard in court. the allegation was jury misconduct, a serious matter. attorney mark godsey runs the ohio innocence project. he saw the juror letter as a way to persuade the judge to grant ryan a new trial. >> i think its unusual for a juror to come forward and say the jurors performed experiments and brou...

>> yes. >> at home? >> at home. >> if the faxing juror was correct, the panel had directly violated the judges instructions to consider only what they had heard in court. the allegation was jury misconduct, a serious matter. this attorney runs the ohio innocence project. he saw the juror letter as a way to persuade the judge to grant ryan a new trial. >> its unusual for a juror to come forward and say the jurors performed experiments and brought that into the deliberations. >> the judge began re...

Dries coming out of the tub or shower? >> yes. >> at home? >> at home. >> if the faxing juror was correct, the panel had directly violated the judges instructions to consider only what they had heard in court. the allegation was jury misconduct, a serious matter. this attorney runs the ohio innocence project. he saw the juror letter as a way to persuade the judge to grant ryan a new trial. >> its unusual for a juror to come forward and say the jurors performed experiments and brought that into t...

>> at home. >> if the faxing juror was correct, the panel had directly violated the judges instructions to consider only what they had heard in court. the allegation was jury misconduct, a serious matter. this attorney runs the ohio innocence project. he saw the juror letter as a way to persuade the judge to grant ryan a new trial. >> its unusual for a juror to come forward and say the jurors performed experiments and brought that into the deliberations. >> the judge began reviewing affidavits f...

>> oh, the grandmother in law? >> were not aware of that at this time. >> earlier you said the suspect called his father. can you expand on that conversation a little bit. >> they have been cooperative, and i really cant expand on that, because of that cooperation and communications. and out of respect for them. >> one of the victims was reportedly pregnant. will that change the murder count charge? >> that number was included. one of the victims was pregnant. >> was there intended to be a reven...

They asked for several clarifications and definitions. late in the trial the judge allowed the jury to consider manslaughter in addition to the murder count and slager had testified in his own defense saying he feared for his life after he says scott wrestled away his taser during a scrum and pointed it at him. solicitor scarlett wilson says she plans to try the officer again. >> he will get his just reward. and we have the federal trial and another trial to go. i dont care how it looks. its not...

Seems so shocking and so out of the blue, this woman driving this car up and hitting people, innocent people, children, killing people. as for the law, as you say, clearly they are pursuing murder charges. nevada has a first degree murder charge that can include the death penalty as punishment. so they reserve the possibility of going all the way there with the ultimate punishment depending on a lot of details as they just come in. as to the second part of the question, there could be other char...

Life. if he is convicted, you are never getting out of jail. >> how do you mitigate it? >> reporter: heres what you can do, if you establish as a defense attorney it was based upon provocation, sudden passion the kwashlgs they were in a dispute, road rage, he couldnt control himself, he was angry. the law does not excuse that conduct, christy, but it goes to the mental state and it reduces a murder count to a manslaughter count because you are acting out of a heat of passion and a sudden quarrel...

>> i dont think it should be reduced to manslaughter. if i were the prosecutor on the case ive been a homicide prosecutor when you fire that many shots, thats demonstrating an intent to kill. i think its a legitimate murder count. i think it should be left up to a jury to decide whether they can convict of a lesser account, manslaughter or they can acquit which by the way they usually do in cases involving police officers. i think this case might be a different animal because of the video. >> ev...