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only one real reason, only one. it's what anybody would do to protect their child, anyone. >> you do not have the right to kill your husband -- >> while prosecutor urged the jury to look past the emotion and focus on the evidence. >> the defense testimony is false. it is untruthful. it is unbelievable. it is a story conjured up to raise battered women and defense claim in a murder case. it is plan b because plan a doesn't work and it's a lie. >> jurors deliberated for three-and-a-half days. finally march 30, 2016 announced they were ready. jane, supported by helen and other friends who had stood by her all along, walked to the courthouse and what waited there. >> it all appears to be in order so i will read the verdict. we the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant jane law bucker laut
six times that she aimed that weapon at her husband and shot him. >> like this, said the prosecutor, as he played a video of a woman firing that very gun. but, said the defense attorney, that's not the only way to fire the gun. >> if you hold the trigger down, you can pull the hammer back and fire. >> this is called fanning the gun, sort of thing you'd expect to see in an old western. but a prosecution expert countered a movie is the only place he'd ever seen that. >> every expert that came up said that that is absurd. the accuracy of firing a gun six times and hitting your target six times in the dark is astronomical. >> after seven weeks of testimony, final arguments from both sides, defense attorney bamieh made an impassioned plea to the jury. >> why would jane laut do this? why would she do this? when you think about it, there's
dave's life insurance. >> jane would never be about finances, absolutely not. >> why do you say that? >> because that's not her value. jane is about relationship. she's about family. she's about children. she's -- it's never been about money for her. >> of course, the prosecutor got his turn to cross-examine jane. there were a lot of "i don't remembers" about the night of the murder. she simply couldn't recall what happened after she fired the first two or three shots, she said. but she did admit she was quite familiar with the gun. in fact, had used it several times before. >> this single-action gun in the hands of this defendant required her to pull back that hammer, fire, pull back the hammer, fire each and every time for these
hero and the home coming queen. >> dave laut was a son, he was a father, he was a colleague, he was a friend. >> more than six years after the death of olympic bronze medallist dave laut, the murder trial of his wife jane finally began in this ventura, california courtroom. prosecutor ramin told the jury, jane was a calculating killer. >> if you look at each of the six shots, they were administered by this defendant as she was executing her plan to murder her husband. there is only one reasonable conclusion, is to find the defendant guilty of murder. >> i'm about to talk to you for quite sometime. >> defense attorney rob bamieh counted the real victim was jane laut who suffered the utmost cruelty at the hands of her husband. >> he is not the hero of the olympics.
it was a bomb scare. they evacuated the sydney opera house and other areas, but it would appear they are baseless. it's a false lead. as we are hearing through the hostages, the gunman is claiming he has planted two bombs inside the cafe. we cannot verify this. police as we know have been very tight lipped throughout the day, with all the information they have been passing on, it really has been extremely limited, but certainly, he poses a real threat. there is no doubt about it. we have seen, it's not the police getting into position. there are hundreds of police here on location. so they've obviously chosen. they don't want to ram in, go in and cause the gunman. they are willing to play this out to do the waiting game. they believe that's the way it will be resolved peacefully. >> they have been waiting basically an entire day, 12
sometimes i feel like i'm the brave one because i actually have the goods to be who i am and this is me you know. i live my life and who i am. but it's really hard. >> do you want to make a spread. i need a reason. >> she's a big girl. >> girl, size 20, honey. >> mod q was known for hospitality. charles barber, who was in on multiple charges of fraud and grand theft to which he pled not guilty offered us one of his homemade snacks. >> this is top ramin. >> cheetos, and top ramin. you eat this, this is what you get. >> i'm the opposite. >> you want some? think about that scale. >> i'm 279. >> still growing. >> and they told me to lose weight but i don't care.
diversion of pain pills, treatment is effective. it's astonishing how well we can do with methadone, new drug vivitrol combined with counseling, but one of the ways to get over a tragic death of an actor, you've got to stay in relapse prevention. so he'd been clean and sober allegedly for 23 years and then relapsed. you've got to stay in alcoholics anonymous or narcotics anonymous, thank god for these two organizations, because i listen to one of the interviews a few days ago on another network and a guy described himself as a former heroin addict. there's no such thing. you're an addict and you have to deal with that and recognize it's a lifelong illness you're confronting. >> all right, general, appreciate you joining us, as well as ramin, thank you both. coming up, we're going to look at why this place in the olympic park is nicknamed, yes,
when the time is right, you can have time to talk it over. >> i said go away. you're sick. you're stingy kind of people. elizabeth can't deal with this. >> going price is 8,000 an acre. where do we sign? >> there's the devil for you. wow. rural america can be just as cutthroat as corporate america. dennis quaid, the director ramin, thank you, ramin, thank you, dennis. you didn't know i was out there watching. >> you, too. >> thank you. let me ask you about this -- it's almost like roller derby. the job of the farmer is to screw other farmer to get more land. >> this is not your typical farm movie for sure. wall street has come to the heartland of america. the only thing missing are the skyscrapers. the family farm is disappearing in this country and it's
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become -- it's pitting neighbor against neighbor because the motto is expand or die, get it or get out. henry wipple is involved in this system and has been corrupted by it in a sense. and it's -- he -- the character is based solely on chasing the american dream and becoming corrupt by that and it's a weight that he gives this exterior of a very sure confident person but there's a lot of self-loathing that goes on inside him. >> ramin, what is this about the american -- the farmer, it's like the small single screen movie theater has a hard time, right? >> yeah. >> is that going on in iowa in places like where you're shooting? >> definitely. the farm is not 100 acres anymore. it's a big business. >> what's the economy at scale? >> it's like any economy at scale. it's like walmart.