and he said, if anyone sees now i m going in right away. going in meeting could be arrested right away? right. if all that wasn t incriminating enough, there was the capper. jennifer told police the story of how their marriage fell apart. it happened in the spring of 2008, who jennifer and her husband michael told her about a phone call from someone they knew. john. he told me that there was a potential job coming up and he was interested in taking. about a woman and an expose that was harassing her. the father of the woman was initiating the job. a father with a daughter name linda and it seems there was a plan in store for linda s ex-husband. they would basically use linda as, sort of, bait to lure the ex spouse towards her and
and waits, he claimed, to help him scale up and thereby water tower in case he found himself runaway from mark s watchdogs and those shin guards there weren t armor to fend off a watchdog, but just a gift for his ex wife jennifer young son. at 7 am michael testified he knocked on mark s door, said mark ordered him, stand in his hallway bathroom and hoax simply obeyed. then what he told mark he couldn t find any wedding pictures he got more and more animated. got very close to me. it was very angry. he came around the corner the gun in his hand. we tangled, i got shot. john henry brown had his clamp on the boat professed and show the jury what he claimed happened next. court and show intel. so mr. stone s home the gun
and he touched it. he said yeah. most starting late in jennifer s testimony all those things she claimed he said that he was doing a job and something went wrong. that he wanted to sterilize his car, and his fears about what would happen if the cops questioned him. something that was not planned. i said there s a trial and it s not going to be good. all very methodically. the prosecution appeared to have cornered michael oakes. seemed to have met a certain burden of proof. and no one had a clue would oakes or his attorney would do or say to respond. oh, but john henry brown knew exactly how he would respond and it was a bombshell he had in store. we wanted to be the people who brought lights into this case. wanted to provide a little twist and turn like a surprise. good morning, be seated ladies and gentlemen. the defense team is
really knew where things were headed. even john henry brown, quite deliberately broke one of his own cardinal rules. he decided not to make an opening statement to the jury. i have what it called my ten rules of trial. i think it s real number three is never wave an open statement. that is a rule. morning everybody. but this time the defense would lie in wait where the prosecution made its case that michael oakes was a first degree murder. here s how their story begins. with this video, a security camera, about 5:30 a.m. at walmart there is michael oakes it is morning mark stover disappeared. receipts found in the car showed he purchased ankle lights, and caroline, shin guards, camouflage gloves. also found in his car that bulletproof s. prosecutors argued oaks arrived in stoverstown s a little bit later that morning.
compassionate loving guy. but early legal skirmish-ing scent sometimes he had confusion, was in murdering oaks a hired gun? or was it something else altogether? and besides that, how intimate was hooks relationship with mark stover s ex-wife, linda. and who was paying for his famous defense attorney? skeptics are behind this. the optics are behind us and they hired me, i ll tell you behind me i wouldn t be wearing that is ridiculous. john henry brown settled into a local hotel and said to work. the constructing the prevailing public view of defended, michael allen s. here in court rounds south of the attention. naturally flamboyance. how they have a dog in this fight. well the client seemed to disappear behind him. the client who said john henry brown was not at all the