the prosecution told the jury norman clark strangled and stabbed brittany because he didn t want her to have his baby. reporter jamie satterfield. she believed it was the baby that was the target, that this baby was going to ruin norman s life and so he killed brittany more to kill the baby and she was collateral damage. prosecutor leslie nassios painted an ugly portrait of clark. a man having trouble paying his bills trying to juggle relationships with more than a dozen women. what is the nature of your relationship with him? i thought he was my boyfriend. i loved him with all my heart. the jury heard all about norman clark s prolific sex life as several of his lovers took the stand. at some point did your friendship with him become intimate. yes, ma am. did he have a particular way
attacked the state s case and witnesses. starting with leeanne hawn. the question was when did he get to her house? you have no idea when you saw him at 10:35 as to what time he arrived. correct. you were asleep with your television on. yes. the defense drove home the point. since leeanne was sleeping her testimony was meaningless. isaac said clark arrived much earlier and watched monday night football alone before getting into bed. the defense argued there was no way clark could have committed a violent murder, cleaned himself up and the crime scene, staged a burglary and made it across town in less than an hour. the state s fbi expert said clark s cell phone signal placed him near her apartment the night she was killed.
after an eight-day trial that question left the jury deadlocked and the judge declared a mistrial but prosecutors were determined to see norman behind bars. and so it was time for trial number two. here with the conclusion of deadly circumstances is andrea canning. norman clark s second trial began in september 2017. it had been six long years since brittany had been killed. trial two would play out a lot like trial one but with one big change, clark had a new court appointed lawyer, kit rogers. what was your strategy and was it going to be different from greg isaacs strategy. it didn t differ. i was saying look at the evidence. to me when i looked at it it looked like a burglary that was interrupted and went bad. prosecutor leslie nassios had been on the case from the very start. baby zeke was born clark
of referring to a part of your anatomy? yes, ma am. what did he say? ownership. it was his. he must have been stretched so thin to be attentive to 15 different women. that is one of the reasons that the prosecution said he was he broke and now here s this baby and brittany s saying i m going to take you to court. next the prosecution established a time line to place clark at brit any s apartment at the time she was killed. here s brittany leaving work at 8:05:00 p.m. the medical examiner estimated her time of death as early as 8:30 and an fbi cell phone expert testified clark s phone pinged off a tower near her apartment at 8:28 and again at 9:05. where was his phone was? in brittany s cell tower. remember, clark s alibi was
that he was at a friend s house the night of the murder. that friend, leeanne was one of his many girlfriends. her testimony seemed to shred his alibi. your testimony is that he comes into your bedroom without calling you, without any notice and you recognize the time as around 10:30. the prosecutor said if clark was at brittany s at 8:30 and arrived at leeanne s two hours later that gave him plenty of time to commit murder, stage the crime scene to look like a burglary and clean himself up. after presenting a circumstantial case, the state rested. norman clark s defense attorney deride the state s case as all theory. they had no physical evidence, no eyewitnesses, no proof clark was a killer. he gave dna. he gave a statement. he gave hair samples. they all came back negative. the defense aggressively