A man was convicted for the 2001 murder of his pregnant girlfriend and unborn son. Prosecutors say he arranged the murder because the woman refused to have an.
before he answered it, he would give a preamble as to why his answer was this. lopez pushed him. told derek that c-styles had confessed and implicated derek. derek denied everything. lopez thought he was lying. but what he was not doing was cracking. i said, you know, you re not a likeable person. i don t know if anybody s going to believe you. and he just didn t seem to mind. of course, it s possible derek wasn t worried because he wasn t guilty. during those ten years from 2001 to 2011, what s derek doing and how is he? does he seem like a guy with a cloud over his head? no. he seems like a man who s flourishing. derek s sister danielle was shocked by the arrest. she says the way she and derek grew up was a world away from people like c-styles and from crimes like murder. we played, we were into sports, we had two extremely active parents that were a part
and it all offense. you and your thinking, what is our? turn yeah. i m like, what is our. turn momo died six months after her daughter crystal. her family says the cause was as much heartbreak as heart disease. and all of that took a huge toll on the tailors. everyone was hurting, so no one really wanted to be around what would bring up that sadness again. and that was us in being together. so we separated for a while. so what had been a big, happy, close family, kind of splintered? yeah. c-styles was convicted of the gang murder he had admitted to. his sentence? life and presents. and crystal taylor s murder remained officially unsolved. the sisters were sure it was c-styles who pulled the trigger. but they were sure of something else, to. c-styles had no reason to kill their sister.
was shot? absolutely. the defense suggested javonte s father killed crystal. never mind that police had cleared him early on. derek s lawyer told the jury his client was an innocent man. but this tragedy, it will be compounded if you convict a person that is not involved. and i m asking for a not guilty verdict on all counts. thank you very much. crystal s family was worried. they could only hope the jury believed c-styles video confession and not his recantation of it. the wait for a verdict was agonizing. that was painful. one day passed. then two. three days in. i m nervous. i don t want to do this again. i can t do this again. it s not easy. then it was a week. then one week turned into two. i m like i m just praying. i just keep praying, no matter