conceded that maybe i tried to scare her and then conceded that he did mean to hit h them. we moved from an accident to something that he intended to do. bill: the interrogation which would later play a big role in al-maleki s trial lasted for two hours. after it was over, al-maleki waived extradition and was put on a plane to phoenix. meanwhile, sahel al-maleki was allowed to visit her daughter noor with hospital security present. on november 2, 2009 doctors pronounced noor clinically brain dead. with her mother s consent noor was pulled off life support. while in this arizona jail faleh al-maleki made a series
it as moment of rage. he does con cede that honor killings do occur in tribal cultures throughout the islamic world but denies they are a big problem here in america. these are very isolated incident that it happen now and then it is like every other crime. how does he explain all that talk about honor in those jailhouse phone calls between mr. and mrs. al-maleki? i think they thought if they go with honor killing that might get out of jail like they do back home. so they thought the courts with be easier on them because of a culture from another part of the world? yes. we have seen some of the places that they will be more lenient if it is an honor killing or something like that. but that is quite stunning in itself to think that somebody in america could think that they could get a lighter sentence because they labeled it an honor killing?
detectives were there waiting. they interrogated him in this room at the airport. state your name, sir. okay. this case wasn t a who done it. my biggest interest was to find out why it happened. and to try to get al-maleki to confess to purposely running down noor and amal. i think you are a man that is trying to do the right thing by your family and by your kids and everything else, okay. i understand that. and what happens more often is that good people like yourself get into a situation and for a split second in their lives they make a very bad decision and i know this was not an accident. i lost control. i will not believe that you suddenly lose control of your car, no. you pointed your jeep at both of them and you struck them. i lost control and i don t
that they were going to come back manslaughter. i was that concerned. bill: on the fourth day of deliberations, the jury reached a verdict. we the jury duly he impanelled and sworn in the aboven titled action on our oath do find the defendant as to count one, first-degree murder a domestic violence offense as to victim noor falaeh al-maleki not guilty we the jury do find the defendant as to count one, second-degree murder guilty. in other words, the jury did not agree that this was a premeditated murder. it was not an honor killing. a defeat for the prosecution. for the injuries suffered by family friend amal, the jury found al-maleki guilty of aggravated assault. he was also found guilty of two counts of leaving the scene of a serious accident. record believed she had failed
of phone calls to his wife. husband and wife were told their conversations were being recorded. even still, those tapes reenforced investigators belief that they were dealing with an honor killing. neither the mother nor the father thinks they did anything wrong to al-maleki. they think noor al-maleki is better off in paradise dispatched there by her father than living as an american woman.