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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171230:11:53:00

proceeded. >> circumstantial cases allow you to be creative. you can take a set of facts and weave a story together for the thi theory of prosecution. >> shawn smoot insisted he was innocent, cycled through five different defense attorneys and the trial was delayed again and again. >> it was surreal. really, you know, it had been reset 22 times. 22 times. >> that's torture. >> it is. it is torture. >> the trial finally started in july, 2016, nearly five years after brooke died. robert jolly, smoot's fifth attorney, believed the state's case was weak for one simple reason. >> i don't think that they did a very thorough investigation of anyone other than mr. smoot, even his investigation wasn't thorough. >> jolly told the jury how

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171230:11:58:00

jumping for joy. >> i was able to give tina greg a hug and see her smile through the tears she had in the last five years. >> this is a moment she had been waiting for. >> yes. i think it was the moment we all had been waiting for. >> for the prosecutor, the case was about more than winning conviction, there's a lesson to be learned. >> for a woman watching this, going through a similar situation. what's the message from in story for her. >> get out. get help, don't go back. it's not going to change. >> speak out, don't be afraid, don't be ashamed because, you know, it is not your fault that you're being treated this way. you should never be treated that way. >> jurors had to decide smoot's sentence. that's when the prosecutor asked them to imagine the horror of brooke's last moments. >> i ask you close your eyes for a few minutes.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171230:11:55:00

>> as for the volatile relationship described in the order of protection, the defense pointed out that smoot never admitted to any of the allegations and was never charged, much less convicted of any assault on brooke. >> the order doesn't mean mr. smoot did anything, doesn't mean mr. smoot admitted he did anything. >> and the order of protection didn't prevent them seeing each other, which they clearly did. >> miss morris told the judge she wanted to have social contact with mr. smoot. >> jolly argued if brooke was so afraid of smoot, why would she want to keep seeing him. after all, records showed she was the one that called him that day. >> she continued to treat shawn as a friend, as someone she would do activities with. >> did you worry that could be confusing to the jury? >> absolutely. i think that's the underlying question any time we're talking

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171230:11:57:00

was okay and he said no. and i asked him if there was anything i could do, and he said turn back time. >> he had heard about the murder and that he had been to her house. >> at that point i asked him if he was directly or indirectly involved and he said both. >> did you take that as admission of guilt? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> it had taken nearly five years after brooke's murder to get her alleged killer before a jury. took the jury less than four hours to reach its verdict. >> we the jury find the defendant shawn nelson smoot guilty of premeditated first degree murder of brooke nicole morris. >> what's the emotions you're feeling when you hear that word? >> of course we can't show emotion in court. >> what's going on in the inside. >> on the inside i am screaming,

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171230:11:51:00

we know who did it? >> absolutely, but that didn't happen. i kept thinking surely any day now, any day now. >> investigators had suspicions and are trying to build a case against smoot, he was the last to see her alive. they had an allegedly violent relationship, and he lied to investigators. but so far they found no physical evidence tying him to the crime. you were able to search shawn smoot's apartment? >> we were. >> did you find anything? >> empty box that once contained a firearm with ammunition. >> no gun? >> no gun. >> the box was for a 32 caliber pistol, the same as the murder weapon. and the ammo? >> same style of ammunition found at the murder scene. >> without the gun itself, the circumstantial case wasn't strong enough to charge smoot with murder.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171230:11:52:00

then the crime lab released a ballistics report showing markings from shell casings matched a bullet found in smoot's home. the missing handgun appeared to be the murder weapon. >> that's a huge connection. >> pretty much the connection. >> in june, twec2012, he was indicted on charges of first degree murder. >> did you immediately identify with her being a young woman, clearly so vulnerable? >> absolutely. >> prosecutors bob edwards and tiffany star smith saw this case as a relationship turned deadly. >> we're still talking about domestic violence, we're still talking about orders of protection, and all of the things that go wrong in those situations. >> you had no witnesses. you had no dna from your suspect, you have no murder weapon. there's a lot of things you didn't have. >> if we didn't feel we could prosecute and be successful, we would have never indicted or

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171230:11:56:00

about domestic violence. why does anyone go back. >> the prosecutors hoped any doubt the jury may have regarding smoot's guilt would be wiped away when they called a key witness to the stand. amy was working for smoot when brooke was murdered says her impression of the nice, outgoing man that hired her didn't last. >> why did it change? >> he was cold, he got angry easily, not satisfied really ever, almost seemed like he enjoyed getting somebody riled up. >> in court she testified about what happened the monday following brooke's murder. >> on that day did mr. smoot come into the office? >> he came in that morning, when i saw him the first time, he didn't see me, he was crouched under his desk, unhooking his computer and i asked him if he

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171030:06:53:00

you can take a set of facts -- and -- and weave a story together for your theory of prosecution. >> reporter: shawn smoot insisted he was innocent. he cycled through five different defense attorneys and the trial was delayed again and again. >> it was surreal, really. you know -- 'cause it had been reset 22 times, 22 times. >> reporter: that's torture. >> it is. it is torture. >> reporter: the trial finally started in july 2016, nearly five years after brooke died. robert jolley, smoot's fifth attorney, believed the state's case was weak for one simple reason. >> i don't think that they -- did very thorough investigations of anyone other than mr. smoot. and even his investigation wasn't very thorough. >> reporter: jolley told the jury just how little that investigation had uncovered.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171030:06:55:00

the defense pointed out that smoot never admitted to any of the allegations. and he was never charged, much less convicted, of any assault on brooke. >> the order doesn't mean that mr. smoot ever did anything. it doesn't mean that mr. smoot admitted that he did anything. >> reporter: and the order of protection didn't prevent them from seeing each other which they clearly did. >> ms. morris told the judge that she wanted to have social contact with mr. smoot. >> reporter: jolley argued if brooke was so afraid of smoot, why would she want to keep seeing him? after all, phone records showed she was she the one who called him that day. >> she continued to treat shawn as a friend. as someone that she would do activities with. >> reporter: did you worry that that could be confusing to the jury? >> absolutely. and i think that's the underlying question anytime that we're talkin' about domestic violence. why does anyone go back? >> reporter: the prosecutors

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130530:01:17:00

side of your screen here, the spectacled one, senator reid smoot, a senator for 30 years, starting in 1903, standing next to him is a congressman named willis hally, a republican from oregon. together, these two handsome devils sponsored something called the smoot/holly tar i have act. it was a big tariff introduced by these two republicans and signed into law by the president at the time, herbert hoover. he signed the act in 1930 and pretty much everybody agrees now in hindsight it was a bad idea, but it was republican president herbert hoover who signed smoot/holly into law. >> the recession that fdr had to deal with wasn't as bad as the recession coolidge had to deal with in the early '20s, yet the

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