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According to the prosecution team, Ali Abulaban did not just have a plan to kill his estranged wife and her suspected lover, but he also had a plan to get his five-year-old daughter and flee town after committing the double homicide. The lead prosecutor played back video of the fatal gunshots to the jury. Later, the defense delivered their closing arguments. They were pushing for voluntary manslaughter in the shooting deaths because they occurred out of heated passion.
According to the prosecution team, Ali Abulaban did not just have a plan to kill his estranged wife and her suspected lover, but he also had a plan to get his five-year-old daughter and flee town after committing the double homicide. The lead prosecutor played back video of the fatal gunshots to the jury. Later, the defense delivered their closing arguments. They were pushing for voluntary manslaughter in the shooting deaths because they occurred out of heated passion.
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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.
