andrew wolfberg is a lawyer, today. back then, he was the youngest member of the menendez retry jury. this was a family that was win at all costs. the ends justify the means. to say that their parents had abused them was almost like the ends justified the means. let s make up this story about abuse. but one thing jurors figured was not made up was that confession tape. this time, the prosecution got to use that wildcard the way they wanted to, as their smoking gun. and they highlighted a section
Sean Kratz will not sit on death row for his role in the brutal 2017 killings of young men on a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, farm, prosecutors announced Monday.
correct. the prosecutors did what they could. they played griz s confession tape for the jury. so, gave you $10,000 and the motorcycle. dear mother was a little bit more talkative, about how kelly was at the end of her rope that summer before randy s murder. we talked about how she can t believe he s still alive, and you know, he s sickly and he doesn t want to be here anymore. we got to know the real kelly baker. what became clear to us is that she s a manipulator. so, they called her a puppet master, a liar, a killer. question was, would the jury believe it? now the defense got its turn. and attorney robert ray turned loose his very best counterattack kelly baker, herself. kelly baker had to take the stand in this case, in my view. the jury was about to get a firsthand look at a different
believes his story, you know, we re cooked. and sure enough, during deliberations, one of the jurors asked to see mcdowell s confession tape again. does that make you nervous? it always makes me nervous because i m, like, oh god, where are they goin with this? an hour after re-watching the confession the jury came back with a verdict, guilty. but now came the penalty phase when the jury would decide if this was a pre-meditated killing or one of sudden passion. how stressful was this case for you? oh, it was real stressful. i mean, when you get a case like this where you have the perpetrator who can convince even some members of law enforcement that he might have been the victim in all of this, then you worry about, what s a jury gonna think, you know? how do you straddle this this thing? and i you know, i forgive the the thought, but it s, like, how do you not get seen as a woman? do you assess i don t know. know what i mean? and i think that ca
one thing that we have asked the judge to do is to limit the so-called abuse excuse. the approach that the prosecutor david conn took was to attack at every at every turn and not give any free passes there. reporter: andrew wolfberg is a lawyer today. back then he was the youngest member of the menendez retrial jury. at the time, the defense attorney was saying, this was a family that was win at all costs. the ends justify the means. to say that their parents had abused them was almost like the ends justified the means. let s make up this story about abuse. reporter: but one thing jurors figured was not made up, was that confession tape. this time, the prosecution got to use that wild card the way they wanted to as their smoking gun. and they highlighted a section where the brothers seemed to have no remorse about what they had done. you miss just having these people around. i miss not having my dog around. if i can make such a gross analogy.