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He was now confined to a wheelchair as his second trial got under way before a new judge, mary chinowski, but if the defendant's disability made him appear feeble and more sympathetic to you are jurors, the new prosecution team would work hard to demonize him. >> michael george fell prey to the two issues most known to common man, sex and money. >> what was your theory for the jury? >> i think motive is important, and it was easy. $130,000 in insurance proceeds, and the fact that he really didn't want to be married. he didn't like his wife. he found her completely unattractive. >> he wanted a ...

Of different voter fraud schemes that had been kind of -- or theorys that had been pitched around. we kind of expected that day to be the case in conjunction with what's been called the green bay sweep at this point. the ellipse rally was supposed to be an opening argument if you will. we were supposed to present hard evidence that was kind of the hook. and then inside the capitol when the split happened, tell green bay sweep started and the objections started, there was supposed to be more evidence presented at ooech one of those objections when the house and senate split. so to back peter's ...

To the crime scene, could prosecutors prove it? here is keith morrison with the conclusion of "suspicion in silver city. " >> it was the day the brooks family feared they'd never see, brad farrington on trial for murdering cassy. >> i never thought we would get this far. >> too far? the prosecutor's opening argument was a warning to the jury -- we don't have a lot. >> no one saw the defendant enter cassy farrington's home. no one saw the defendant strangle her. >> no. and there was absolutely no evidence from the crime scene to help their case. the prosecution didn't even call the now-retired ...

Hours, 24 hours at the most. i was really scared. i moved out of my mother and father's house 'cause when i was started testifying, bennie hays came to my mom and daddy's house, looking for me, to shut my mouth, to keep me from talking. so, when my mother and father went to the store to guy groceries, i wrote them a note saying i moved out. i couldn't live here no more, and i started staying at the salvation army in pritchard. i honestly believed that they would have killed my mom and daddy. >> 29-year-old henry hays looked chipper as his capital murder trial got under way. security is tight a...

Stand overall. i think the jury had to hear from him. the portrayal that they had seen, including opening argument, that he was a vigilante on a blood lust had to be rebutted in his own words if they hoped to get a full acquittal. what i'm astonished, even after this jury rendered its decision, we have politicians like de blasio and cuomo who are, again, sort of fuelling the rage not accepting the basis of the verdict. you can be critical of what rittenhouse did. i don't think he should have gone there with an ar-15. i don't think -- >> martha: neither does his lawyer, by the way. >> that's ri...