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>> 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. and the judge would move on to setting a new trial date. >> then he starts talking about the lack of evidence parding the possession of gun and charlie not having the gun. lack of evidence that the fingerprints for found on the shells upstairs but that didn't indicate that he had ever shot it. i looked at another reporter who i kn...

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 investi...

>> he's one of the most generous and selfless people i've ever met. >> he impressed his teammates and coach. >> good football player, always quiet, always got a smile, never late, good worker, good kid, solid. >> go back to the handsome house in the rochester suburbs where charlie grew up in his teenage years. it's a place called pittsford, new york. and newspaper reporter john hand knows it well. >> it's a very nice community, very picturesque community. >> thick lawns, nice cars in the garage? >> lots of executives from kodak and xerox and lawyers. >> charlie was younger of two boys. his par...

A report from the house on coach side lane. >> 911. >> just two weeks before the shooting, police records show the wife placed another 911 call. >> yes, my name is jean tan, and my husband just beat me up. i need your protections. >> are you injured? >> yes, he choke me, and i'm so scared. please. please help. oh, he's coming. no. please come. >> the dispatcher heard what sounded like an ongoing fight between husband and wife. >> hello. sorry. >> no. >> no, no. >> sorry about that. >> help me, help me! >> no, no. >> a deputy was sent to the house and noticed jean tan, the wife, was clearly dis...

He'd used a shotgun. >> charlie said, my dad's in there. he's dead. i had to do it. he was going to hurt my mom. >> the father is shot because the boy feels his mother's in jeopardy. >> yes. >> it was getting late on a frigid february night. the deputies put the son and mother in the patrol car. >> they asked him where the shotgun was. there was some mention of it be being in the garage. >> reporter: after securing the weapon, they made their way to the second floor. in the home office they found the victim. >> the father is behind the desk? >> spent shotgun shells are right there in that door...