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In the parking lot. then she walked all the way home. over the next few days, police got a warrant for carter and david's cell phones. that camera app, so useful. >> well, we learned that they had conducted surveillance at ashlea's apartment weeks before that. they had a picture of her apartment. her actual door to her apartment, and they had pictures of her vehicle, the white dodge ram pickup. >> reporter: in early december, 2014, carter cervantez and david mallory were arrested and charged with the murder of ashlea harris. cold comfort for ashlea's sister. >> it's just such a loss and it's s...

And just months before that trial began, matt murphy learned that sam had a new defense attorney. someone matt knew very well. >> he so is good. and i would be lying if i said my heart was not in my throat. >> reporter: sam's defense attorney lew rosenblum was the former assistant d.a. who supervised the homicide unit. in fact, he was the original prosecutor who back in 1994 didn't think there was enough evidence to charge sam. not only that, lew was the man who brought matt into the homicide unit. >> lew took me under his wing and trained me how to do homicides. >> what's it like to go up aga...

But the kid deserves a break. >> the community felt that very strongly. >> so, when the trial began less than a year after the shooting, the sworn representative of the people with a murder case to prove found herself in an odd spot. >> the biggest problem was the defendant himself, because he did appear to be, you know, an upstanding, nice young man. >> monroe county district attorney sandra dorley. >> from the very beginning, people were disappointed that an indictment was filed against charlie tan and we're taking this to court. but, you know what? we have to prosecute people who violate th...

Hallway. >> what did you think? did you take it all in? i'm not sure he took it all in. >> i'm not sure i took it all in at first. >> that this is over. >> it was super exciting. everyone was so happy. everyone was in tears. >> not quite everyone. assistant d.a. bill gargen was fuming. >> you were willing to get arrested over this. >> absolutely. >> i was more than willing to have handcuffs placed on me to argue my point. i didn't cross any lines. >> what recourse do you have? >> there's no appeal. that i know of. >> so charlie tan is free. >> that's it. there is no appeal as of from this tria...

>> we wished that didn't happen, but the kid deserves a break. is there some of that going around? >> the community felt that very strongly. >> so when the trial began less than a year after the shooting, the sworn representative of the people found herself in an odd spot. >> the biggest problem was the defendant himself because he did appear to be, you know, an upstanding, nice young man. >> monroe county district attorney sandra dorly. >> you know, from the very beginning people were disappointed that, you know, an indictment was filed against charlie tan and that we were taking this to cour...