Defense Attorney Linda Parisi
Appearances
48 Hours
Deadly Divorce, Part 1
I mean, if I had a dollar for every time somebody said to me, this guy must have just snapped.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 1
What does that suggest to you? If that isn't a clear example to a lawyer or my colleague to have psychiatric analysis of our client, that's what that says to me.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 1
People need to remember that Mr. Mack came back voluntarily so that he could present his defense.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 1
Our investigation shows that this woman was violent and could get angry and do things that were inappropriate that may actually raise the question of self-defense.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 1
I didn't say that, but I don't know who wrote it, and it hasn't been established. And until I know who wrote it, how could I possibly speculate as to what the meaning of it was?
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Deadly Divorce, Part 1
No. He has a lot of friends and family that care about him a great deal.
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The Cyanide Killer
Is there something funny? I noticed that you're laughing. Is there something funny?
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The Cyanide Killer
The fact of the matter is you've been negotiating with these people all along. Isn't that true?
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The Cyanide Killer
testimony in her husband's murder trial is about to begin his lawyers have honed their arguments in that mock trial and let me begin by saying that now they're ready for the real one let me begin by saying that the death of rosemary isa is senseless and certainly tragic Whole life's on the line here. So, naturally, there's a lot of anxiety.
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The Cyanide Killer
He's happy in his marriage, but at the same time, he continues to have all of these sexual affairs? Yeah. Do you know whether Rosemarie was aware of the fact that your brother was cheating on her?
48 Hours
Strange Truth
Could you explain to the jury how you were feeling and what you were going through at that time?
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Strange Truth
Does he do anything, anything at all, to look for his wife? He does nothing, ladies and gentlemen. While he's hooked up to monitors, he's on the floor doing push-ups. So, how does Mr. Croteen prepare for the funeral? He's not a porn site, ladies and gentlemen. He is guilty of concealing and destroying all the evidence.
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Strange Truth
Hold this man responsible for not only the bludgeoning death of Ramona Croteen, but for the victims that are left behind. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
48 Hours
A Tragic Journey
Lead defense attorney Linda Parisi... That Mr. Hirshfield is wrongfully accused.
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A Tragic Journey
I don't think it magically appeared at all. The van was open. During that period of time, Mr. Hirshfield was... in transition in terms of having a residence, and in fact, a person was seen sleeping in that van.
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A Tragic Journey
We didn't believe that the suicide note is relevant or reliable. When people are planning their own death, it is not at all uncommon for them to rewrite history.
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A Tragic Journey
They were not exonerated. It was not where there was a finding that they were not involved. It was a finding that their DNA did not match with what was found on the blanket. We would ask to call Raymond Gonzalez.
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A Tragic Journey
You ask him some questions about that guy putting up a struggle. Do you have a recollection of that conversation?
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A Tragic Journey
David Hunt and his crime associate, Richard Thompson, figured quite prominently.
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A Tragic Journey
They put it in this bag. We didn't make up this bag. This bag isn't a stage prop. This bag is the for real bag.
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A Tragic Journey
Mr. Hershfield didn't have an easy life. Some will say he didn't have a chance. His mother was raped by Mr. Hirshfield's father. His father was a very cruel man, physically, emotionally abusive.
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A Deadly Family Secret
It's a genuine risk. But it's a risk we pretty much have to take at this point.
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A Deadly Family Secret
As we said, that's a crucial part of the defense of this case, and yeah, it makes it difficult. No doubt it makes it difficult.
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A Deadly Family Secret
Yeah. It's not what they said, it's the fact that they were there testifying for the prosecution. That, yeah, no doubt.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
She was going to punch him on the left side of his face, but Darren gets up and pushes her back.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
Charla, give me the gun, Darren says with his left hand. It's loaded. Charla looks at the gun, pulls the hammer back, smiles, and fires. Just like that, the rubber band breaks.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
Darren's worst fears were realized at that moment. Charla was really going to kill him.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
They are both struggling on the ground. Darren plunges the knife into her neck once. Charla's violence has stopped.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
He's like a soldier. He's a soldier for a just cause. That's how he sees this. Everything is happening basically on automatic pilot, which is consistent with somebody suffering from the delusions that Darren Mack was suffering from at the time that he went and shot Judge Weller.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
Darren thought that Charla had slept with Judge Weller. Delusion, I hope. We'll ask Judge Weller when he comes here.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
You would agree that you've become a lot more familiar with this particular divorce than you actually did when the divorce was occurring. Isn't that fair, Judge Weller? No. Well, you didn't know Mr. Mack's first name, and he'd been in front of you for over a year.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
You treated Mr. Mack differently than you did other people who appeared before you, didn't you, Judge? No.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
With this question, I do apologize, but I have an obligation to Mr. Mack to ask it. You hadn't been sleeping with Charlotte Mack, had you? No, sir. Okay, that would be crazy.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
We've given him hope, we've given him an opportunity for his family and his kids to feel that he's not gonna be locked away in a max prison forever.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
I think it's been one of the greatest injustices that I have ever seen in the criminal justice system, and I've been doing it for 17 years.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
You could bring in any competent expert. Darren Mack is not insane. It's an absolute joke what they did. You're not competent to argue self-defense if you're insane.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
Am I correct that Darren Mack is the one that said, I'm not going with an insanity defense on Charla? This was self-defense? Yeah, there's no question about that. And you did not think that was a smart thing to do?
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
No, because he came to the garage with a knife and a gun in his pocket.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
had told us that after he stabbed her, he put his knee on her head and she was gurgling. When he told that to us in preparing for his testimony, I got physically ill.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
This is a horribly disturbing situation I'm in right now. Because when I learn something from my client, I'm not telling anybody.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
So the second conversation, he indicated to me that he had meditated on what we had talked about and described to me in fairly significant detail what had occurred in the garage that included this gun.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
I had two concerns. The first concern was that perhaps Mr. Mack was being less than candid with me, or alternatively, the dumpster had been moved. So I decided to go with the dumpster had been moved as opposed to him being less than candid with me. Your Honor, the defense will call Darren Mack to the stand.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
The truth will set you free, not the fear of the truth. And that's what happened here, Judge. They were afraid of their own case. They tried to tailor this man to an insanity defense, and he is not insane.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
You're actually, you know, better off to murder your spouse and then plead insanity and you'll be out in seven years, you know, have your kids.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
He thought he'd hit the lottery with this woman. Funny, smart, beautiful, physically fit. Darren was not aware of the dark side of Charla prior to marriage. She also was not aware of her ability to be physically violent and physically abusive towards Darren.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
Charla had an unusual sexual appetite. She liked women. She liked swing with men and women.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
She could be kind and giving in public. She could be violent and abusive at home. It was too much for Darren to take.
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Deadly Divorce, Part 2
Charla arrived about 9.15. Charla begins to threaten, and the rubber band starts to pull. The name calling from Charla began. The terrorist split personality reared its evil head. She transferred into pure hatred. The rubber band is pulling.
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The Mystery of Jane Mixer
We also don't know when that stain came in contact with that pantyhose.
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The Mystery of Jane Mixer
I believe there's innocent explanations in which the DNA could have been on there. Such as? Such as having contact with the pantyhose in a laundromat.
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The Mystery of Jane Mixer
It's going out on quite a limb to say, well, there's contamination in this part, but there's not contamination in this part.
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The Mystery of Jane Mixer
That means that John Rulas is around this young lady who is ultimately found dead and bleeds on her. How does that happen?
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The Mystery of Jane Mixer
There were no fingerprints that have been associated with Gary Leiterman. Is that correct?
48 Hours
A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
I remember just falling to my knees, and I was crying, and I was overwhelmed.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
The stakes are so high. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Please be seated. This is what we had been working for, the criminal trial.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
Matt was a dangerous man. He had to be stopped before he hurt someone else.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
Matt Baker was in fact having an affair. I got fooled, got fooled by Matt Baker.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
For me, pretty tough. Both of them lied to the families, both of them lied to the cops, and both of them lied to try to cover up this affair.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
I was trying to steel myself for the stories they were going to spin about Carrie.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
You've got no physical evidence. You will see a lot of suspicion. You've got no cause of death. You will see a lot of theory. You can't even be really certain that it was a murder.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
No, I'm OK. I apologize. I had this inner dialogue with myself, telling myself to get it together.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
He told me that clearly some youth had found his briefcase and spit the pills in there so that they wouldn't have to take them, and that he reported this to security.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
They went through the process of looking at it, but it was aborted and no purchase of Ambien was made. Correct? Yes. No further question.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
Matt Baker was very good at hiding his dark side. In her gut, she was figuring it out, but she didn't listen to those instincts.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
We had no knowledge of what she would say until she testified in the courtroom.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
For the first time, we were going to hear exactly what happened.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
I know what my child was screaming inside of her head. She was screaming out for her babies. I know that. I know that.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
Out of all of the people that you tested, which one had the highest probability of a touch? Carrie Baker appears to have the highest number. Nothing further, Jim.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
If the primary source of DNA on that piece of paper was Carrie Baker's, then she must have taken her own life.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
As the hours went on, I became more nervous. I went off by myself and just prayed a lot.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
It's the only case I've ever tried that I didn't put my client on the stand.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
It doesn't matter how long it takes. We're in it till the end. You can't hide dirty little secrets forever.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
I felt absolute relief. that Matt Baker would never again be in a position to take a life or destroy lives.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
Since the day he walked in my office and told me he was lying, I talked to him only for strict legal necessities and had no other conversations.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
You cannot be a good lawyer for somebody if you don't believe them, and that's the position I was in.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
I gave them my advice. They needed to go get a different lawyer to handle it. I did not want to be there.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
The judge made me be there, and they requested that I be there, and I did my duty.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
Oh, yes. I've never in my life been forced to go to trial in a case that I didn't think I was on the right side. Hardest thing I've ever done.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
I still think I did a decent, credible lawyer job, but I had no heart in it.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
I'm talking to you, Matt, today, okay? You haven't looked at me in almost four years. Can you look at me today? You murdered the mother of your children. But the most tragic victims, Matt, are Kinsey and Grace. Those sweet, sweet babies.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
They've been taught to hate us. We were portrayed as the people who caused their father to go to prison.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
Carrie was a very good minister's wife. Faith was very important in her life.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
I only take the cases that I believe in with all my heart, and this is one of them.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
I don't believe that a person should be able to walk free after he's murdered someone, and this someone is my daughter.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
You can't go forward with a murder case unless you can establish that it is homicide. So you have to establish cause of death. And that, forensically, is just not possible in this case.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
And it's time that we should have been grieving for our daughter, that we've been fighting for a cause.
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A Preacher's Secret, Part 2
I'm angry. And all he's doing is making us more determined to uncover the truth.
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A Toxic Relationship
Treated many paranoid patients. Someone was really trying to kill her and she knew it in advance. Why in the devil would she then drink it?
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A Toxic Relationship
It just doesn't make any sense. That, to me, suggests a state of mind of a person attempting suicide.
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Coerced Confessions
Are there two reasonable interpretations? Brad Patton is one of Richard Tuitt's defense attorneys. The evidence that is being proffered against Richard Tuitt is not reliable and does not prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. Is this going to be more about defending Richard Tuitt or proving that the boys did it? This is a trial within a trial in the classic sense.
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Coerced Confessions
Absolutely not. No, never. Never would he have done anything like that. This picture was taken on his first birthday.
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Coerced Confessions
He used to tell me, I know it's not your fault, Mom. I'm like this. And he felt bad, and he felt like he was a burden.
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Coerced Confessions
There is not any trace evidence that connects Mr. Tewitt with the Crow residence. Richard Tewitt did not go into that house, and Richard Tewitt did not kill Stephanie Crow.
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Coerced Confessions
Based on photographs that you've seen, saw, What she called was transfer?
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Coerced Confessions
You were talking to the detectives about the fact that you were in the kitchen and Michael had come out alone, not with Aaron, but alone with the knife. You recall that?
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Coerced Confessions
So as you sit here today, you have no recollection of having called Michael Crow and made that statement? Correct.
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Coerced Confessions
Who had the motive to kill in this case? Was it Richard Tuitt in this theory that the prosecution is woven together? Or is it Michael Crow?
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TV Bailiff Spivey on Trial
One of the things that we were able to see in this case is they had a camera system in their home, and I watched their relationship.
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TV Bailiff Spivey on Trial
I mean, the idea of a gentle giant. His size was, you can't avoid seeing how big he is.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
No, I didn't. That was not the main theory, that the dogs actually strangled her to death.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
Let's assume that someone trips and falls and fractures their C3. Their breathing is compromised. If they're then choked, it doesn't take much to kill them.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
It wasn't asked. Why would she think the dogs were important? She doesn't even know that there's any question of being choked.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
Because if she got sick, that was something that she would wear a scarf to wipe your mouth with it.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
Yes. Sometimes dogs, when they're crate trained, when they go to bed, will go lay in the crate, even with the door open.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
From getting cut on a nail that was in the back of the nightstand that was there.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
Susan had touched that area before at some point in time, and she lived there.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
She has hair extensions. And you know what hair extensions cause? Loss of hair.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
What he testified is, well, I didn't stay there the whole time he fixed the car. Does that seem like a discrepancy to you? Well, it's not a discrepancy. Nobody's asking him that full story at the age of 12.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
No, he basically said I wasn't there when he got the injury.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
If you have 40,000 texts and there's five of them with hard language in it, that's a perfect marriage.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
No. First of all, I don't know really who printed this stuff up.
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The Perplexing Death of Susann Sills
There was never any physical violence. Their working and marriage relationship, everybody looked at it as loving.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
I don't know of a case in America where someone's serving a 31-year prison sentence for a death that was undetermined.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
The new evidence was that the images that had been given to Paul DeLuca had been darkened.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
The skull fracture was the pivotal point. in the state's case to convince the jury it was a homicide.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
I call in a secretary, call in somebody else in the office. No one could get any better images.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
She's trying so hard to be the good girl, the compliant girl.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
She's not equipped to deal with a situation like that.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
Eric. was just indignant. He was saying whoever had done this manipulation should be held accountable. I believed after the meeting that he believed in Melissa's innocence, and he was going to try to rectify this.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
That's the only evidence against her. There's nothing that tips this as being a homicide. Absolutely nothing.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
No. There is no fracture. The evidence had been manipulated.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
No, absolutely not. They had absolutely nothing. There's no eyewitness. There was no video. The reason Melissa Kaluzinski got charged is she confessed.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
I think that his parents were misled by the daycare center about that incident.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
I believe he thinks in his heart that she's innocent.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
What we want to do today is focus on who is this person and how did she end up in the position that she's in, convicted of the first degree murder of a child.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
There is no question that the death of a child is probably the worst thing that could ever happen to a parent. But the only way that a parent gets closure is with the truth. And the truth has not come out in this case. I know that she is innocent.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
We're asking them to declare that she's actually innocent and release her. We are also saying, commute her sentence.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
Melissa was not even working there at the daycare center.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
Before trial, I said, do we have any better images? And it was no.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
Dr. Montes said he put his finger in the skull and threw the fracture. I mean, it was devastating.
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A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
Zero. She had nothing to do with it. I am Melissa Kaluzinski's current attorney. She loved Ben. Ben loved her.