their responsibility when the victim went into medical distress? the answer to all of those questions is their client, alix tichelman. she was responsible. forrest hayes could not call for help. he could not do anything to help himself in the situation. alix tichelman was the only one who had that ability to do that. and steve, what about, you know, the defense here and their statement again they talk about how she injected herself with an unknown substance, and then he i ll read exactly the quote here. the man rub and hit his inner elbow to help the woman locate a vein in his own arm, shining a light from his cell phone on to his inner elbow. he was injected. they kissed again. the man became lethargic and nodded off. there s nothing in this description that includes her walking back and forth over his body. there s nothing that includes her then having a drink of wine while he was lying comatose on the floor. that happened, though, in the video you saw, right?
documents that were released today, the defense attorneys depict their version of what they saw on the surveillance tape aboard that boat. on the tape, according to the defense attorneys, you can actually see forrest hayes using a light on his cell phone to help tichelman locate a vein. after she injected him with heroin, he became lethargic and fell asleep. she gathers her things and leaves. there is no mention of her finishing her red wine or stepping over his body several times. thank you very much. this case does come down to the video kyung is talking about there. footage police say they actually had to get from the security company because the captain of the yacht told investigators for a while that, well, the cameras weren t working. the deputy police chief for the santa cruz police department, good to have you with us. tichelman s attorney, you just heard kyung lah explaining, i m looking at their statement. they say look the tape proves this was an accident. he purposefully
tichelman on youtube cheerfully giving makeup tips or the one flaunting her body. the heavily mascaraed 26-year-old openly shared her love of the underbelly of society, marilyn manson, the tv serial killer show dexter. as a so-called sugarbaby she picked up older men on the website seekingarrangement.com and she was a silicon valley prostitute with 200 clients. one was google exec forrest hayes. at that point she showed no concern for the condition of the victim. reporter: police say surveillance video shows tichelman giving heroin to the married father of five as hayes overdosed she cleaned up the drugs, she walked around with her glass of wine in her hand, as she stepped over the body a number of times. you know, what s particularly shocking in this case, though, is just the glacial callousness and coldness that she showed toward the condition of the victim.
out. no intent to harm forrest hayes. we asked our viewers what 74% did not believe alix tichelman s side of the story. you have seen this tape. do her attorney s views add up? well, you know, this is really the oldest trick in the defense book. when in doubt, try to put the victim on trial. and that s exactly what they re trying to do here. they have no explanation for the behavior. they ve seen the same video. they know that alix tichelman stepped over the body several times. they know that she spent a good seven minutes on that boat after mr. hayes went into medical distress. so they know the facts. they know that she was walking around drinking her glass of wine. what they re trying to do is they re trying to paint a picture of forrest hayes and they re trying to absolve their client of responsibility here. at the end of the day, the question to ask here is who brought the drugs, who prepared the drugs, who injected the drugs and then who neglected
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