double murder trial against the advice of his own attorneys. did you lie to the agents on the follow-up interview on june tenth that last time you saw maggie and paul was at dinner? i did lie to them. you lied to them by telling them that you were not down in the kennels on that night? yes. i didn t shoot my wife or my son any time ever. i would never intentionally do anything to hurt either one of them. ashley: just jeanine pirro gave insight into whether she thinks it was a good idea for him to testify. i am sorry to mags and paul. thatt means he is basically saying to them, i didn t intentionally do anything to hurt you. he is creating premise for down
sonny time. ever. most of all, i m sorry to mags and paul paul. i would never intentionally do anything to hurt either one of them. ever. ever. interesting. it almost sounds like an admission the way he phrases it. i m sorry to mags and paul paul. i would never intentionally do anything. on one hand, you can say he s a lawyer and that s how they speak but on the other hand he apologizes to his dead wife and dead son. the interesting part of that intentionally, that word, that kind of creates the possibility of a down charge.
so that when there jury is ultimately given the case, the defense can argue that your honor, in addition to intentional murder, maybe there s a reckless murder. the judge will say where is the evidence of that? he just created the basis for that down charge. but other jurors may look at it that s an admission, that he didn t realize that he made. i thought that word leapt out at me at well, when he said i wouldn t intentionally do anything to hurt them. kind of opens that window, right? would you do something accidentally? would you have someone else do something perhaps? he opens up a whole game of possibilities. the interesting part about this case, in a murder case, there s no requirement that you prove motive. the prosecutor doesn t have to prove motive. but all of us as human beings, when we re presented with a case of a husband killing his wife
to the pitbull d.a. here. but sorry to mags and paul-paul come i didn t intentionally murder or whatever the actual statement. i didn t intentionally murder any one of them. so why does he use the word intentionally? you can say he is a lawyer you re speaking in terms of how the indictment and murder is an intentional crime. but it is prefaced with i am sorry to mags and paul. that means he s basically admitting to them, you know, i m sorry and i didn t do anything intentional to hurt you. what he is doing is brilliant. he is creating a premise for a down charge. that means even though charged with intentional murder, there is evidence where the defense goes hand to have a discussion with the judge what the jury will be charged or the defense will say, we want manslaughter in there and the judge will say there is no way i can accept
0 was doing it and i had that document prepared, handwritten in the neatest handwriting that i could make because a secretary other than mine, a paralegal other than mine was going to be the person who was going to put those that financial information into the final document. and that s the document that mark ball talked about that he found on my desk whenever it was that he found it. so that is what was going to be, if necessary, what was going to be used thursday. the jury has heard about testimony of you stealing client funds. did you do that? i did. did you steal or divert that fee away from the law firm? i did. how did you get in such a financial predicament that led you to steal money that wasn t yours? you know, i m not quite sure how i let myself get where i got. it came from i battled that addiction for so many years. i was spending so much money on pills. i got in a spot i couldn t what type of addiction are you referring to? my addiction is to opiate pain