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worked with jim tan said he was miserable, behaved like a child, he would bully people, was nasty at work. so a son defending his abused mother was a defense no-brainer strategy that seemed to require little assembly. the other defense lawyer, brian decarlos. i think most people that looked at this case said the only defense is self-defense or some hybrid of, you know, a battered child syndrome. but as the trial progressed, that wasn t the attack charlie s defense team planned. our strategy was to keep our strategic defense in our back pocket, hidden from the prosecution as long as we possibly could. so what was the secret defense? they were going to agree with the prosecution on one point, that when jean called 911 to report her husband dead, the murder was days old. that call is 100% fake, there s no question about it. not only was the mom lying to 911 about when the murder
the boy feels like his mothers in jeopardy? yes. it s getting late on a frigid february. night the deputies put the sun in the mother and a patrol. car i asked him where the shock on. was there was some mention of it being in the garage. after securing the weapon, the deputies made their way into the hall. on the second floor, in the home office, they found their victim. the husband, the fathers behind the? desk he s behind the. dustbin shotgun shells are all right there in that doorway area. the detective would quickly learn more about jim tan, father, husband and businessman. he owned his own company. they had lived in canada and then move to the united states some years earlier. successful executive? by all accounts yes. but was the successful businessman an abusive husband? detective looked around the household. as crime scene techs processed a shotgun killing upstairs. they came upon an appointment card for jean tend to appear in domestic violence court. so t
others. some days he seemed good. charlie would sit in court while they would build a case. playing the tape of jean tan calling the cops two weeks before the shooting. my husband just beat me up. i need your protections. are you injured? yes, he choke me, and i m so scared. defense attorney james nobles thought the 911 recording spoke volumes about that household. it was almost as if we were put in the hell that charlie lived in for a brief moment. and the hell that jean lived in for a brief moment. and they kept piling on. jim tan continued the defense wasn t just a bully at home. his employees testified about the abuse they, too, encountered in the work place. every other person who
his dad was already dead inside. but no one from the tan home called 911, rather, charlie and his mom grabbed their passports and fled the country. jean tan and charliettan left the country, went to canada and came back on that monday before the 911 call was placed. so why come back and tell a lie? the prosecution didn t know. a guess, perhaps someone had to run jim tan s business. and this last tidbit, before that four days late 911 call, charlie took the time to first send an e-mail warning to his fraternity brothers. they would soon hear things . he sends an e-mail called showtime . you re going to be hearing from law enforcement. yes, yes, you will be surprised. showtime. jurors don t buy the self-defense. this was no crime of passion. it was a planned murder. so this is an