than anything i d ever seen in my life. i cried for my dad. was this a murder? every day i think of that. all i could think of was my kids. what about my kids. it was in the dark that the fear began, in the dark, and it grew. it terrorized our family, our friends. who was out there, in the dark? here, miles and miles in the woods. so far from safety. from civilized protection. they could just come, onto our property, and invade our lives. but on the summer night, deep in the california sierra, the terror came out of the dark. came after them. to take everything. the terrible, desperate chase. it s awful. and now the question, what really happened, out there in the dark? i still feel like i need to go help him. it looks so innocent now. closed up, quiet, empty. here in its place at the end of 100 yard dirt track, that sneaks off this lonely country road. deep in the sierra nevada but this was not how it was. or was ever meant to be. no. before it happened
elbow, and lead him out of the courtroom. turn him over to his family. here is how wilson presented his standard ground defense, in his opening to the jury. he shot him because he was and he was in fear of. his life olson told the jury that he was a protective family man. doing what he felt he had to do as a father. after those menacing visitors to his house. after this friday i said they were afraid, and i think that sets the tone for his state of. mine two sweet little girls. he wanted to show the jury the sweet little girls you wanted to protect. fair enough. some of the jury wept. as 12 year old dara repeated the story she told, us about the night the man came to their property. i remember asking my dad and mom when are you going to do if they come back. and what would happen. if someone got hurt. what did they say?
a state jury instruction that s as a person under threat, has a right to stand his or her ground and even pursue an assailant. chad walden reid said, two attorney also, the justice is sort of person for whom that defense was attended. he s not a gang banger doesn t have a criminal record. he has a good clean military record. chad began looking forward to a trial. turned down the deal from the da. there s a story to be told there s things that need to. kamau i think that a trial will be a rather awakening. the first, they had to choose a jury. which would be a fight in quincy. a place imposed of gun owning country folk, and liberal big city transplants. there were a lot of letters to the editor of the local paper. and i think that they were pretty evenly divided between people saying that the state ought to reimburse chat the cost of ammunition. and people seeing, i moved up here from the bay area to get away from all of this. and people shouldn t have consolation to shoot guns.