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Ali Abulaban recalled the very moments leading up to the fatal shootings of his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. While the State contended that he premeditated both homicides, Ali claimed killing two people was never on his mind. He just wanted to find out the truth about his estranged wife allegedly cheating on him. When he aimed and fired at close range on the two victims, Ali recalled having an out-of-body experience and didn't even remember shooting his own wife.
Ali Abulaban recalled the very moments leading up to the fatal shootings of his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. While the State contended that he premeditated both homicides, Ali claimed killing two people was never on his mind. He just wanted to find out the truth about his estranged wife allegedly cheating on him. When he aimed and fired at close range on the two victims, Ali recalled having an out-of-body experience and didn't even remember shooting his own wife.
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S1, EP68 "Defense Rests Their Case"Ali Abulaban's attorney had more questions for him during redirect examination. She wanted him to clarify claims he made that alluded to him premeditating and carrying out the murders of his estranged wife, Ana, and the friend she was with, Rayburn Barron. Later, Ali Abulaban wrapped up his long testimony on the stand and then his defense rested their case-in-chief to jurors. Later, the state delivered their closing arguments.
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S1, EP69 "Closing Arguments"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, EP70 "Premeditated Murder Vs. 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, EP71 "Cocaine-Binge Heat Of Passion"The toxic marriage fueled by constant domestic violence, emotional manipulation and verbal abuse eventually exploded into double homicide. But instead of a murder plot carried out by a jealous, controlling husband, Ali Abulaban's defense claimed the murders occurred out of a cocaine-binged heat of passion. In the Defense's closing arguments, Ali's attorney claimed that he was growing more mentally unstable as his fame was rising on social media to the point that he became a raging coke addict.
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S1, EP67 "Jailhouse Confession"While testifying on the stand, Ali Abulaban's defense attorney blew the whistle during his cross-examination. The State brought up a jailhouse confession Ali allegedly made where he bragged about killing his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. Later, the jury listened to the defendant be apologetic about his role in the fatal shootings. Ali admitted that he was initially in the victim mindset until he began his so-called Journey of healing.
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S1, EP66 "The Moments After the Shootings"Crime scene tampering is part of the State's case against Ali Abulaban for double murder; the lead prosecutor contends that Ali planted several bullets at the bloody scene immediately after shooting his wife, Ana, and her friend; Taren Brast claims that the moments right after the murders were just as important as the deadly shootings themselves; Ali admits that he took a cell phone photo of the two victims and confesses to his mom while going to pick up his young daughter from school.
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S1, EP65 "Seeking The Truth With A Loaded Gun"Ali Abulaban recalled the very moments leading up to the fatal shootings of his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. While the State contended that he premeditated both homicides, Ali claimed killing two people was never on his mind. He just wanted to find out the truth about his estranged wife allegedly cheating on him. When he aimed and fired at close range on the two victims, Ali recalled having an out-of-body experience and didn't even remember shooting his own wife.
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S1, EP64 "Defendant Lashes Out On The Stand"While on the stand in his own murder trial, the State portrayed Ali Abulaban as a controlling, abusive husband whose jealousy led him to plot and carry out the murders of his wife, Ana, and her friend, Rayburn Barron. Despite Ana telling him she didn't want to be with him anymore, and she was getting ready to file a restraining order, Ali testified that his marriage was not over. Jurors watched the defendant throw a fit at the lead prosecutor's probing questions.
