wouldn t take long to wash yourself off. getting that cart, and head back to the house. and then at 9:02, the defendant over there who wouldn t even admit until forced to that he was even at the scene, all of a sudden he is as busy as he s ever been. 9:02 to 9:06, 283 steps. 9:03, we see the system start up on the car, that could mean he s close by the car, as he returned with maggie s phone and placed it in that car, and then, what do we see from 9:02 to 9:06, not on four-minute period, but he s su doing. what were you doing? and everybody though he has a photographic memory, he could not answer what he s doing during this four-minute period that is so illustrating of what we re talking about here. for four minutes he is not only going 283 steps. this is a defense exhibit, defense 156. 283 steps. and they put in the distance. we heard the distance isn t as accurate. it illustrates the point. that s 208 meters. meter, you know, roughly is a yard, a little bit more, a little b
firearms. those major points the prosecution should stick to, and the whole financial crime motive they should back away from. hey, jack, as they re wrapping up the defense arguments, the prosecution i should say again arguments today, we ve been watching this for so many days now, when we look ahead, of course, to tomorrow as the defense begins their closing arguments, what are you expecting? from what i understand, jim griffin may be doing the closing argument for the defense. and he s very effective. he does use power points to make sure that he gets all the facts in and conveys those to the jury. but here s what i think the main problem is for the prosecution. yeah? most is not you don t have to prove motive in a murder case. but their motive that they suggested in this case just doesn t work in my opinion. no one is going to kill their spouse and their son to go ahead
and everybody though he has a photographic memory, he could not answer what he s doing during this four-minute period that is so illustrating of what we re talking about here. for four minutes he is not only going 283 steps. this is a defense exhibit, defense 156. 283 steps. and they put in the distance. we heard the distance isn t as accurate. it illustrates the point. that s 208 meters. meter, you know, roughly is a yard, a little bit more, a little bit less. i don t remember. but let s say it s 600 feet. that s a lot. and he couldn t remember what he was doing. i asked him, have you been on a treadmill, doing jumping jacks,
i think he s doing a good job pulling everything together in the closing argument. he s using a power point presentation so he doesn t forget anything, and it s a very difficult task to make it as coherent as he s doing. and you know, we re going to hear from jim, i believe, is going to do the closing argument for the defense, and he s going to be effective too. i mean, i have been involved in cases with these guys, and they re very good, very good lawyers. i m proud of them. danny cevallos, weigh in for me. what s standing out to you today? this is prosecutor closing argument 101, using a power point, very common for prosecutors, and i think a bit of a stumble here is putting way too many words on the power point, making it a reading exercise for the jury. i can t fault the prosecution. they must think they have an embarrassment of riches in terms of evidence and they must be concerned that there s some piece of data, some point, that
and deflect from the crimes, the financial crimes. the strongest point they have is the timeline. they ought to be sticking with the timeline. and the third thing is that he lied and he lied to everybody. and he is a thief. part of the defense s concern, their strongest point is going ahead and tried to pick apart everything that the prosecution offered. but they attacked the timeline as well. so the fact that he has finally come forward and he s finally admitted he is lying, he is finally admitted these financial crimes, they need to emphasize that, and they need to emphasize obviously reasonable doubt that they created during the cross-examination and their own witness. thank you. danny cevallos, laura jarrett, thank you guys as well. that does it for me today, everybody. to continue following the trial, catch it screaming on nbc news now. deadline: white house picks up after a very quick break. quickk