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You go to the da and you say, let's settle. in this case, you had a videotape statement, and you are a detective, and you don't hand that over? that's like 101. >> is this a prosecution mess up here? >> so -- >> ultimately, at the end of the day, they need to know what evidence they have. >> exactly. i always hate to describe blame, right -- perfection will lose us all. but the realities are, when you are a prosecutor, you speak to whoever are going to be witnesses. and you say hey, what do you have? i need that. but apparently in this case, you have a detective who testifies, and makes an adm...

Punishment. >> jarred long was the one who pulled the trigger nine times. jarred long was the one who took the life of vincent goslyn. so, we want to make sure he received the maximum punishment that he could for this crime. >> to do that, that prosecutor needed not only jessie's videotape statement, she needed jessie to tell a jury the whole story. she and jarred plan to murder vince. >> we needed for her testimony about the reasons why they planned to kill vincent, and the way that they planned it out. >> so the prosecutor made an offer. if jessie pleaded guilty to complicity with murder i w...

Interview for the jurors, hoping they would see what they saw. >> when the police force gave us the case, i watched his videotape statement, finance into it i knew he did it. i news guilty. his demeanor, his attitude, he tried to take over the conversation. not a single tier woodshed. >> they presented evidence that the bullet casing found at the scene, was from a glock 40. the kind of gun nathan owned. >> the only firearm that can generate those marks, it's a glock. >> and, are you able to say that within a reasonable degree of scientific certainty? >> yes. >> but police never did find the mu...

>> to do that, that prosecutor needed not only jessie's videotape statement, she needed jessie to tell a jury the whole story. she and jarred plan to murder vince. >> we needed for her testimony about the reasons why they planned to kill vincent, and the way that they planned it out. >> so the prosecutor made an offer. if jessie pleaded guilty to complicity with murder i will testify against jarred, she would recommend a sentence of 22 and a half years behind bars. she agreed to this plea deal? >> she did after a long talk and very heated discussions. >> so, now, with time served, the woman wh...