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And the judge said we have to address the motion for dismissal by the defense, it's still pending. >> that's a common motion made by most defense attorneys when they ask a judge to throw out a case, especially due to a lack of evidence. >> you always do it. it's, frankly, malpractice not to. >> everyone thought this would be an order of business, quickly dispatched. >> then he talks about the lack of evidence, that the fingerprints were found on the shells upstairs, but that didn't indicate that he'd ever shot it. i looked at another reporter who i know and i said what's going on here? >> char...

We understand that the d.a.'s office is not going to walk away from a homicide. >> how will it look differently? >> better for me. that's how it will look differently. >> unfortunately for charlie's attorneys, they'd already played their surprise defense, mom really did it. there would be no shock value in a second trial. >> frankly, we've got to face this like a brand-new case starting today. hung juries are a case in which you have to reinvent the wheel. >> in november of 2015, weeks after the trial ended, both sides were back in the same court, before the same judge, who two days earlier ha...

My friends i did it. people i hadn't even heard of were supporting him. people from the community, everyone was doing it. >> how much money did you raise? >> around $50,000, yeah. >> why did people come out of the wood work to support charlie? >> he has been one of the nicest guys ever, and everybody knew that and they wanted to do anything they could to give back to him. charlie would give everything to other people. if somebody needed anything, he would be the one to give it to them. >> reporter john hand was working on one of the biggest stories they had seen in years. so now it's an invest...

Reporter john hand of rochester's "dem and chronicle newspaper. " >> they found that jean was still upset. she had some red marks on her neck, but there wasn't enough there to charge jim tan with a crime. >> so incident over? >> that night. >> he tried to kill me, but nothing results in charges or makes it into the paperwork. >> correct. >> so a history of abuse, it appeared. if that were the case, charlie had told no one in his circle at cornell university. the coach hadn't heard from charlie in days, and now his phone rang. >> campus police called me up and asked me to come to his fraternity...

>> around $50,000, yeah. >> why did people come out of the wood work to support charlie? >> he has been one of the nicest guys ever, and everybody knew that and they wanted to do anything they could to give back to him. charlie would give everything to other people. if somebody needed anything, he would be the one to give it to them. >> reporter john hand was working on one of the biggest stories they had seen in years. so now it's an investigation for you, news story. great ivy league kid blows away his father in this nice neighborhood. what's going on in terms of response to this event? >> w...