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Closing arguments was underway. First up was the State. The prosecutor reminded the jury that 46 witnesses took the stand in the six-weeks of trial testimony. Anna Faraglia argued that all the evidence pointed to one person in the death of his wife. She went on to tell jurors that Dr. Yazeed Essa failed to do his duty as a doctor in saving a life when Rosemarie, was killed. Instead, he took a life and destroyed a life.
Closing arguments was underway. First up was the State. The prosecutor reminded the jury that 46 witnesses took the stand in the six-weeks of trial testimony. Anna Faraglia argued that all the evidence pointed to one person in the death of his wife. She went on to tell jurors that Dr. Yazeed Essa failed to do his duty as a doctor in saving a life when Rosemarie, was killed. Instead, he took a life and destroyed a life.
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S1, EP95 "State Delivers Closing Arguments"Closing arguments was underway. First up was the State. The prosecutor reminded the jury that 46 witnesses took the stand in the six-weeks of trial testimony. Anna Faraglia argued that all the evidence pointed to one person in the death of his wife. She went on to tell jurors that Dr. Yazeed Essa failed to do his duty as a doctor in saving a life when Rosemarie, was killed. Instead, he took a life and destroyed a life.
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S1, EP96 "Defense Delivers Closing Arguments"During the final remarks to the jury, the State expounded on their murder timeline. This timeline ended in the poisoning death of Rosemarie Essa and her husband, Yazeed, fleeing the country on the run from the law. Next, it was the Defense's turn to deliver their closing arguments. This would be the final time they would speak to jurors in their attempt to appeal to them Yazeed's innocence in the poisoning death of his wife, Rosemarie.
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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.
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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.
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S1, EP94 "Defense Rests Their Case"The dense topic of computer forensics was brought back up for jurors. Yazeed Essa's defense critiqued the way the state's expert retrieved his internet activity in the days leading up to his wife, Rosemarie's death. The Defense then rested their case in his murder trial. The defendant chose not to take the witness stand in an attempt to exonerate him for the aggravated murder charge in Rosemarie, his wife's poisoning death. Next, the State delivered a brief rebuttal case.
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S1, EP93 "Digital Forensics Examination"An expert in computer forensics testified. Mark Vassel critiqued the work of the State's expert who testified earlier about the internet records retrieved in the days leading up to Rosemarie Essa's untimely death. According to investigators, this digital footprint of Yazeed revealed not just a murder plot but an escape out of the country after the crime.
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S1, EP92 "Insider Information"A secret love affair became the focus in the Defense's case. Yazeed Essa's lawyers brought in employees who confirmed the sexual affair he carried on outside of his marriage to Rosemarie. Next, the defendant's brother's attorney took the stand. When Firas Essa returned to the stand, he pleaded the Fifth for lying under oath about a confession Yazeed made while he was in jail in Cyprus awaiting extradition back to the U.S.
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S1, EP91 "Former Employees Testify"Yazeed Essa's former employee testified in his defense case. Ron Onesko was under cross-examination testifying about Yazeed's extramarital affair with his mistress, Marguerita Montanez that was happening in the weeks leading up to Rosemarie's murder. Next to the witness stand was even more former employees of the defendant. It was all about how serious Yazeed's secret relationship with his longtime mistress really was just months leading up to Rosemarie's poisoning death.
