courthouse. good morning, laura. good morning. you know the family of jennifer petit has said from the very beginning, they want to see justice in this case. and this could be just hours away from hearing a verdict from one of the men who shattered their family back on july 23rd of 2007. closing arguments concluded yesterday with both the prosecution and defense laying out the most horrible and most sympathetic words they could. for hayes, the defense attorney, that meant bringing him face to face with the jury. at a podium, a very rare move, hayes stood just feet away from those jurors as his defense attorney said this is a human being. hayes eyes were cast down as his lawyer explained he is living a life behind bars of torment and guilt for what he did. his lawyer urged the panel to spare his life and said that if they wanted to end hayes torment, they should kill him. if they want him to suffer, they should give him life in prison