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Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP3 "Reasonable Doubt To A Murder"The Defense gave its opening statement to jurors. Jade Janks lead attorney dismissed the State's assertion that she plotted the murder of her stepfather, Tom Merriman. Instead, the Defense argued that he died of drug abuse. No evidence of strangulation and plenty of evidence of drug abuse. The Defense wanted to raise doubt in the prosecution's case against her.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP4 "Brian Salomon"Prosecutors wanted to show how far they believed the former interior designer went to kill her stepfather, Tom Merriman, and dispose of his body. They called to the stand one of the men she was accused of asking to help her. Brian Salomon claimed that Jade Janks wanted to put a pillowcase over her stepfather's head and a rope around his neck. Salomon testified that he ran away from her at one point on the day prosecutors said she killed her stepfather.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP5 "An Almost Hitman"The Defense tried to discredit the man who claimed he was asked to help her kill her stepdad, Tom Merriman. On the stand, Brian Salomon admitted that he did not go to police after his encounter with the defendant because he was afraid it would incriminate him. Jurors would decide later what was the actual involvement of the man who Jade Janks allegedly tried to recruit in a murder plot. Was he an accomplice and culprit in Merriman's death?
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP6 "The Welfare Check"The man who found himself in the middle of an alleged murder plot wrapped up his testimony. Nex, the deputy who received the initial call about Merriman took the stand. He told jurors how police did a welfare check to look for him, but they did not find him. Jurors in the taboo photos murder trial heard about the initial stages of the investigation into Tom Merriman's death. It began with claims that Jade Janks was responsible for drugging and suffocating him.
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP97 "Leave Emotion Out"Yazeed Essa's lawyer was in the middle of their closing arguments. With a graphic checklist displayed for jurors, defense attorney Steven Bradley implored the jury not to judge Yazeed's alleged role in his wife, Rosemarie's death, with emotion and disdain for him as a cheating husband. According his defense, Yazeed giving his wife calcium pills was not evidence that he was looking to fatally poison her.
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP98 "Lacking Direct Evidence"The long closing arguments by the Defense continued. Defense attorney Steven Bradley continued to stress the lack of physical evidence the state needed to link Yazeed to his wife, Rosemarie's death. Yazeed Essa's lawyer played back court testimony during his closing arguments. The Defense wanted jurors to dismiss the testimony of his alleged fixer who testified against him.
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP99 "The Long Final Remarks To Jurors"Jurors listened to Yazeed Essa's attorney during closing arguments trying to implicate one of his mistresses as the possible killer in Rosemarie's death. Just like they did in their opening statements, the defense team gave a long closing arguments to jurors. They outlined what they believed were holes in the state's case that left enough reasonable doubt for the jury to acquit Yazeed for his alleged role in his wife's death.
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP100 "Closing Rebuttal"Yazeed Essa's attorney wrapped up his long closing arguments to jurors in his murder trial. Steven Bradley stressed the importance of keying on reasonable doubt, which he believed is littered all through the state's case accusing the defendant of killing Rosemarie, his wife of five years. Next, the lead prosecutor, Steven Dever, claimed in their rebuttal argument to jurors that his team began their case as a product tampering one only to tear it down to prove intentional murder.
Cheerleader on Trial for Baby's Murder
EP37 "Unhealthy Mom, Stillbirth Daughter"The cross-examination of the defense's medical expert continues; on the stand, Dr. John White, an OB-GYN, claims that by the time Annabelle was born into the world she had already been dead by stillbirth.
Cheerleader on Trial for Baby's Murder
EP36 "Interrogation Expert"The Defense's OB-GYN expert wraps up his testimony; before the next expert testifies for the defense, the judge holds a hearing outside the presence of the jury.
Cheerleader on Trial for Baby's Murder
EP33 "Character Testimony"Alan Hirsch, an interrogation expert, states that investigators used an aggressive technique in their police interviews of Skylar Richardson which led her to give a false confession; the jury hears the character testimony.
Cheerleader on Trial for Baby's Murder
EP35 "Dependent Personality Disorder"A mental health evaluation of the defendant gets outlined for jurors; according to the defense's psychologist, Skylar Richardson submits to authority.
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP85 "Just Sex And Nothing Else"The defendant's main mistress testified that the two of them during their months-long sexual affair were never exclusive and not emotionally involved. During cross-examination, the Defense wanted to point jurors to the idea that Marguerita Montanez wanted Rosemarie dead so she could be with him. Years before Rosemarie lost her life, Yazeed had an on-and-off sexual relationship with at least two women, both of whom he ended up hiring and becoming his children's nanny.
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP86 "Criminal Behavior"A police interview was read out loud in court. It happened weeks after Rosemarie Essa was killed and Yazeed was a wanted suspected who fled the country. Two of the defendant's mistresses were considered suspects in the poisoning murder. So, law enforcement brought them in for questioning. Next, prosecutors called in a retired special agent of the FBI. He happened to be a criminal behavior expert who reviewed Yazeed's actions leading up to and after Rosemarie was poisoned to death.
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP87 "The Narcissist"An expert in criminal behavior explained to the jury the nuance in this case that involved Rosemarie Essa, a healthy mom who suddenly died by an undetected and rare poison. The judge allowed prosecutors to bring in this expert to speak on why a person would taint his wife's nine calcium pills and try to evade police. Greg McCrary called Yazeed's behavior leading up to Rosemarie's poisoning death as narcissistic. Next, another homicide detective working this case took the stand.
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP88 "Following The Poisoned Trail"The second detective who investigated the murder of Yazeed Essa's wife continued his testimony. Detective Dennis Matejcici explained to the jury on how his team eliminated the possibility of Rosemarie's calcium bottle being contaminated with cyanide poisoning. Investigators needed to paint the full picture on why and how Rosemarie's husband could plan her death, attempt to get away with it, and then flee the country as a fugitive as police zeroed in on him as a prime suspect.