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>> did you steal divert the fee away from the law firm? >> i did. >> how did you get in such a financial predicament that led you to steal money that wasnt yours? >> you know, im not quite sure how i let myself get where i got, but it came from -- you know, i battled addiction for so many years. i was spending so much money on pills. i got in a spot i couldnt -- >> what type of addiction are you referring to? >> my addiction is to opiate pain killers, specifically oxycodone, oxycont...

As a sympathy ploy or did you -- >> as a sympathy ploy? >> yes. why did you ask him to shoot you? what was your end goal that you wanted to accomplish? >> i meant for him to shoot me so i would be gone. >> who is this? who did you ask to do this? >> andy smith. >> did he, in fact, shoot you? >> he did. >> where was that located, not your gunshot, but where were you shot in hampton or where were you? >> its hampton county. its right on the road that runs along the sawkahachee river. >> why did yo...

0 was doing it and i had that document prepared, handwritten in the neatest handwriting that i could make because a secretary other than mine, a paralegal other than mine was going to be the person who was going to put those -- that financial information into the final document. and thats the document that mark ball talked about that he found on my desk whenever it was that he found it. so that is what was going to be, if necessary, what was going to be used thursday. >> the jury has heard about...

0 talked about that he found later in my office. and it was tight -- it was handwritten, ready to be tightened up by, you know -- because of the charges against paw, i kept everything close in the civil case, it was danny in his office that was doing it, and i had that document prepared, handwritten in the neatest handwriting that i could make because a secretary other than mine, a paralegal other than mine was going to be the person who was going to put that financial information into the final...

Taking care of the kids. she is taking care of him, if you know what i mean. the 12-year-old daughter is going to be now giving limited testimony. she was only 6 years old when she found her mothers body in the bathtub and her memories have been tainted and unduly influenced. is that a smart move to put her on the stand? >> i actually dont think it is a smart move. i look at her if i am the defense as the gift that keeps giving. the judge ruled her memory is tainted as a result of discussions sh...

But david, does that throw out everything you will hear from andrew young? what we have heard thus far, shocking testimony from last week that andrew young claims he was afraid that there might have been a possibility that he could have gotten shot, not necessarily by edwards himself, but by someone else? >> you know, there is no evidence of that. i think thats a sympathy ploy. andrew ying young is any defense attorneys dream in this case. the reality is he contacted three witnesses before the t...