one more doubt removed, said the prosecution. but for steve s defense team, it was further proof of a shoddy investigation. contamination. we found out not only potential contamination, there was actual contamination in this case. how can you trust anything after that? exactly. defense attorney craig williams said the case against steve had an even bigger flaw. you cannot put steve democker in that house where there was a horrific murder, a bloody murder, you can t put him in the house. no dna at all. no dna, no blood. you don t find any dna of carol s on him anywhere. you don t find any dna, fingerprints, blood, anything of his in the house. how can you convict him of murder? but in july 2013, by this time a full five years after carol s death, steve was still in jail, and the case finally went to trial again. new defense attorneys. a new prosecution team. who, it soon
yeah, and you have no control over it. uh-huh. strangers are gonna decide. uh-huh. who don t know your brother? uh-huh. this family of highly educated professionals knew the case for and against steve as intimately as any attorney. on the third day of deliberations, there was nothing for them to do but sit together. watch their phones. and then, as they prepared to leave a coffee shop in prescott news. the jury had reached a verdict. but it was four in the afternoon. apparently quitting time. and the judge decided they d all have to wait until morning to hear what the verdict was. katie and charlotte, comforted by steve s parents, his siblings. had another night to wait and wonder what did the jury decide? it was rough on everybody. it is. and it s just horrible. with that nervous energy then is to the you can t sleep. we were thinking, well, are they just stretching this out? was it torture? well, sure, i mean, we we just want them to go ahead and let
reasons why in his view steve deserved to spend the rest of his natural life behind bars. by this time, pretrial legal rulings had taken the death penalty off the table. the attorney told the jury the case was no less condemning. i want to ask you to find the defendant guilty of the first-degree premeditated murder. first he said steve had motives and not just that $6,000 a month in alimony. no, carol, said the prosecutor, was worth a lot of money dead. the evidence will show that at the time of her death that steven was the owner and beneficiary of two life insurance policies. the total was $750,000. steve and carol s daughters,
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