happiness, never. in that moment, i cried in happiness. for ciara s friends and family, the reaction was much different. surprised. and i think that my surprise came mostly from the children s testimony. i don t believe for a minute that anyone coached them into saying any of that. they told the jury what they saw and what her heard? absolutely believe that. and if you believe it, that means that he s guilty. right. do you think jared murdered ciara? i do. does she need justice? she does. i don t know how they re going to get it. but the prosecutor says not guilty is not the same as innocent. i do think that he is the murderer, and we would not have tried him if we didn t have confidence in that. jared and katie are grateful to the circle of friends who they say helped acquit him. they are now fighting for custody of his children who have
kids? i absolutely think they were asking leading questions leading them to conclusions they didn t originally have. jared s attorney was confident the jurors would understand the facts if they heard from jared directly. i knew that he was going to make a good witness. most particularly because he was well spoken. you took the stand, always risky. rarely advised. bull you did it. there was no question. why? why did you take the stand? i had been waiting six years to be able to stand up in front of a jury and stand up in front of a judge and say, i didn t do this. but it exposes you to aggressive cross-examination by the prosecutor. it does. and that was rough. it seemed like he was doing everything in his power to kind of guest a rise out of me. provoke you so the jury could exactly, show the jury the monster. jared faced the prosecutor s questions for more than a dozen hours over three days. so this is a poor set of facts that have come together against you