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>> defending waseem daker was waseem daker. >> i want to point out three principles of law i want to give you. >> before he took over his own case, he had been represented by an experienced father and son team, michael and jason treadway. they were still advising him. and believe the states case was vulnerable. >> they had no case without those hairs. that's why they didn't go forward initially. they didn't have a case. and they knew it. >> their advice to daker, focus on those hairs and don't obsess about lottie. >> this case had to be defended by attacking the science of the state's case. >>...

>> she had been not only tortured and murdered, but she had been undressed at some point and redressed. >> at karmen's bedside, the hammer she had wanted for peace of mind. never touched as she fought for her life. not far away was the suspected murder weapon, a piece of rope. crime scene technicians dusted for fingerprints and collected blood samples. the evidence was sent to the state crime lab for analysis. >> the lab tests kept coming back without the physical evidence that we needed, that linked him to the dead body of karmen smith. that's when we knew that it may always be a circumstanti...

Five layers of bedding and i was shocked and i started to get pretty scared at that moment because i had given karmen two blankets just before her death. >> they were blankets that lottie now says she and daker had slept in together. >> mr. daker used those blankets on a number of occasions. i mean, he was welcome in my home and we were friends and he had spent the night and clearly i knew that his dna could have been on those blankets. >> remember karmen had been found under several layers of bedding. if one of lottie's blankets was among them, it could explain how daker's hair got on karmen'...

Somehow it arrives and it's a hair with a root. there's real problems with that piece of evidence. >> it was a serious challenge to the state's key piece of evidence, and daker once again connected the evidence to lottie spencer, a liar, he said, who had ruined his life in the most treacherous way. >> she didn't make all of these false allegations. she derailed their investigations by making all of these false allegations. >> for lottie, all of the fear and hurt from her darkest days came rushing back every time daker mentioned her name. >> he was enjoying it like he had control again and that...