Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190603:06:05:00
Prescott town square in anticipation of the annual rodeo. and, on june 3rd, inside the square's historic court house, county attorney joe butner opened his case against steve democker by ticking off the reasons why, in his view, steve deserved to spend the rest of his natural life behind bars. by this time, pre-trial legal rulings had taken the death penalty off the table. though attorney butner told the jury the case was no less condemning. >> i will ask you to find the defendant guilty of the first degree pre-meditated murder. >> reporter: first, he said, steve had motives, and not just that...