guilty of anything, it's having a career criminal for a brother. >> i believe manny haro was angry about being abused and molested as a child. he was desperate to maintain his street credibility as a drug dealer. when he got caught, he tried to blame it on his sister to try to gain freedom for himself. >> not only that, he said, but those hit notes allegedly written by claudia -- >> i am convinced these are forgeries. claudia never wrote any hit note to anybody. nobody ever talked to her about whacking someone or murdering someone or shooting someone. >> mesereau was ready with those arguments and more, and who knows what a jury might have done. remember the movie "my cousin vinny" where joe pesci played a lawyer who got his client acquitted of murder charges? well, this movie didn't end that way. on the eve of trial, claudia haro decided not to fight the