the defenceman it this way. yaz early on i talked to a lawyer who advised him he may be facing the death toll in guilty if charged with murder. yaz was led to believe that he could be charged with capital murder, and he freaked out. then of course, his lawyers had to defuse those explosive allegations from the lebanese fixer, and his own brother, that he said he did the poisoning. i asked if he was responsible for the, death he said yes. both witnesses had lined on the stand according to the defense, because each had cut a deal with the prosecution to leniency on charges they had faced. it was a proverbial get out of jail card. the brother, for instance, was looking at almost 12 years in prison for helping law on the land. he took a deal. he s got five kids, all under the age of 12 years, he employs 100 people, he s got a lovely wife, a beautiful home, and his world is about to
About to deliver an even more dramatic round how punch. we fraud isa took the stand as a prosecution witness. i asked him if he was responsible for her death, and he said yes. when you found out that information, what did you say to your brother? i told him bleep. why did you say that? because he took rosie s life. and i loved her. it just ruined his whole family. it was crippling testimony. once, an inseparable blood friend, hard given yards and evidentiary kills shot. nonetheless, there were still core problems in the prosecutions overall case. it was entirely circumstantial, and seemed to beg for a motive. why would the doctor do it? prosecutors answered by arguing that yaz the family man, wasn t really when you took a closer look. it turned out, he had a bunch
Collapse on him. so was he well advised in terms of his own survival strategy, forcing for us to supper. from all the fixer had been a fugitive wanted by the united states. just listen to my question. listen sir. listen to my question. the more he talked, the better off we felt we were. that guy who is trying to cut a deal. precisely. so if yaz you essa didn t do it, who did? the jury had already met her, offered the defense. they offered up margarita as the true killer. she is one of the women that yazeed were detained a long term, ongoing, sexual relationship. margarita had a motive for one in rosy out of the picture, argued the defense. she and yaz had kept their sexual relationship going even after both that married. and, don t believe this portrait of her as a casual
Dipuccio love so much, the son-in-law that had a near perfect marriage, have killed her? nonetheless, doctor yazeed essa was a murder suspect, an international fugitive. local police called in the fbi. initially, he fled from cleveland to cypress, and then eventually, he also came to formation from various sources, that he had traveled to beirut, lebanon. a season the fbi man hunter the agent had a major problem. yaz was untouchable in lebanon. because, that country doesn t have an extradition treatment with the u.s.. so, rosie s husband, was living freely in beirut. the fbi knew it, and there was nothing they could do. even if we have eyes on the ground, you can say just leave his apartment he went home, you can move in and serve papers on him? right. back in the u.s., rosie s
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