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Premeditated was the theme in the State's closing arguments to the jury. Lead prosecutor Taren Brast laid out her theory on how a marital separation between Ali Abulaban and his wife, Ana, led him to fatally shoot at close range her and her friend, Rayburn Barron. How bad had things gotten between Ali and Ana? According to the State, Ali had to write himself notes not to abuse his wife. This was just days before the double murder.
Premeditated was the theme in the State's closing arguments to the jury. Lead prosecutor Taren Brast laid out her theory on how a marital separation between Ali Abulaban and his wife, Ana, led him to fatally shoot at close range her and her friend, Rayburn Barron. How bad had things gotten between Ali and Ana? According to the State, Ali had to write himself notes not to abuse his wife. This was just days before the double murder.
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S1, EP75 "Judge Gets The Final Word"Judge Jeffrey Fraser listened to the emotional victim-impact statements ahead of his sentencing of Ali Abulaban, the convicted double murderer. The relatives of Ana and her friend, Rayburn Barron, talked about how their murders destroyed each of their families. Ali then addressed the Court. He told the judge that a life in prison without parole is like being condemned to hell.
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S1, EP74 "The Sentencing Phase"Since there was no dispute that Ali Abulaban killed the two victims, jurors were instead tasked with deciding whether the killings were first or second-degree murder or voluntary manslaughter. Before the sentencing of Ali Abulaban, his defense appealed his murder conviction. Ali faced life in prison without the possibility of parole for being convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron.
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S1, EP73 "Jury Deliberations And The Verdict"The lead prosecutor buttoned up their case against Ali Abulaban in the State's rebuttal. Taren Brast reminded the jury of the defendant's demeanor when she was drilling him under cross-examination. This was to highlight the anger and need for control which prompted Ali to kill his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. Next, jurors would deliberate over Ali's role and fate in this fatal ambush apartment attack where two young lives were tragically lost.
