shooting. and then came a routine moment that we ve all seen in courtroom dramas on tv, the prosecutor in this wave, steve, caplan rose and told the judge, and the defense response in this michigan courtroom, just as productively, was to try to get the case thrown out, not enough evidence. they argued and asking the judge for what s called a directed verb it. when you just don t know, you have to pull the plug. you have to say that s it. and then it got really strange. and you say, your honor, the state has not proved its case. we ask that you dismiss it right now, that it not go to the jury. right. it happens all the time. right. and we did. and almost always you re rebuffed. that s right. and almost always you re rebuffed within about 10 to 15 seconds. that didn t happen here. no.
and i m talking close to 100 phone calls to this phone number back and forth. but he did love her. i told some people at the clinic i wish i had someone that would look at me the way jon looks at susan. the question for the jury was didi lover to death. the motive was laws lost. hello and welcome to dateline if you re a fan of fictional courtroom dramas you might think that every criminal trial and with a bombshell. maybe it s a surprise witness or an 11th hour confession. well that kind of thing rarely happens in a real trial. but it did in the story. one last unexpected twist in the case full of surprises. here is dennis murphy with the valentine s day mystery. a dozen roses check.
somewhat agrees on that. he wants change e a democratic senator said people are so overwhelmed with what s going on, they already whether or not he was someone that is a villain that does not need to be in office ever again. that in some ways the stakes are already set here. i m curious about strategy. the american people frankly are used to seeing courtroom dramas on tv, law-and-order style, are there real world tactics that the committee can use to hook viewers, to convince viewers in the same way that a great prosecutor would make the could is in a courtroom? it s a great question. i wish my trials lasted with one commercial interruption. that s not how it works. presenting evidence in a courtroom is more art than science, but nevertheless, to your question, yes.
is really important, i used to work in that building, but it s not tangible to most people s daily lives. there s a lot of things you do in government service just because it s the right thing to do, but if you re the average voter, i m not sure they know what january 6th. if you re kevin mccarthy or elisa stefanik, you want to talk about i m sure they ll put on a good show, but it seems unlikely this will change any dynamics, particularly when the people sticking by donald trump probably won t even see a minute of it. is the american public so unchanged by decades, really of the watching courtroom dramas, law and order, and they expect evidence, people to be confessing on the witness stand. that s not what this is. this is really create ago record for history. it s up to the justice