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...