the judge refused to accept a deadlock and sent them back to deliberate. four hours later the jury signaled a verdict had been reached. tex s sister dexie and his friend sat anxiously on one side. diane s colleagues including jay grover filled the prosecution side of the room. the case that had riveted atlanta was coming to an end. on count one, murder, we find the defendant not guilty. not guilty of deliberately murdering diane, but, wait. the felony charge of shooting the gun at diane we find the defendant guilty. killing someone while commit ag felony. guilty of felony murder. possession of a firearm in the course of a felony. guilty. trying to influence the witness danny jo carter. guilty. in lay terms the verdict meant tex didn t mean to kill diane but he did mean to shoot her. when you hear the first guilty count it was like, we got him.
already in surgery when police showed up, and that, according to dani jo, is when tex said the weirdest thing. he looked past me and he said, i don t trust these guys. i hate to see you get wrapped up in this, dani jo. i ve seen how these things can go down. and he said, you just need to tell them that you re down here as a friend of the family. wait a minute. you re here as a friend of the family and not as the person who was driving the car when the shooting happened? right. and so i leaned down again. well, i said, tex, i just drove you in to the emergency room. looks at me and he goes, well, they don t know that. i thought, what do you mean they don t know that? dani jo shared her misgivings with diane s co-workers. they were now convinced atlanta police hadn t dug deeply enough. jay grover was skeptical of tex s claim that the gun had just gone off. this does not make sense.
best friends and confidantes. dani jo was a cosmetologist with a front row seat to her brilliant career. she loved crunching numbers and along with billie corey i think she learned how to wheel and deal. she rose through the ranks and with her boss s blessing became president of the company, hiring, firing and calling the shots. she would say, i don t want to hear about the labor pains, just show me the baby. jay grover was a vice president at diane s company. when she started in business here in atlanta, there were not a ton of female executives. no, absolutely. and i think that was what one of the things that really set diane apart. she was a woman in a man s world. she had a big personality. loved clothes, furs, hats and kids, although she never had any of her own. she survived one bad marriage and was in her 50s when she met tex mciver. he was self-made, too, a
overcome our differences on the verdict. the judge refused to accept a deadlock, and sent them back to deliberate. four hours later a verdict had been reached. diane s colleague, including jay grover, filled the prosecution s side of the room. the case that had riveted atlanta was coming to an end. on count one, murder, we find the defendant not guilty. not guilty of deliberately murdering diane. but wait. on the felony charge of shooting the gun at diane. we find the defendant guilty. possession of a firearm in the course of a felony. guilty. trying to influence the witness dan ji jo carter. guilty. and in lay terms, the verdict meant tex didn t mean to kill diane, but he did mean to shoot her. when you hear the first guilty count it was like we got him.
showed up, and that, according to dani jo, is when tex said the weirdest thing. he looked past me and he said, i don t trust these guys. i hate to see you get wrapped up in this, dani jo. i ve seen how these things can go down. and he said, you just need to tell them that you re down here as a friend of the family. wait a minute. you re here as a friend of the family and not as the person who was driving the car when the shooting happened? right. and so i leaned down again. well, i said, tex, i just drove you in to the emergency room. looks at me and he goes, well, they don t know that. i thought, what do you mean they don t know that? dani jo shared her misgivings with diane s co-workers. they were now convinced atlanta police hadn t dug deeply enough. jay grover was skeptical of tex s claim that the gun had just gone off. this does not make sense.