he said the defendant was at the store answering a phone call. once or the phone? michael george. how long did you talk to the defendant? less than five minutes. what time did you call the defendant? anywhere between 5:15 and 5:45. do you remember how he seemed to you? he seemed like he was in a hurry. how important is he to your case? without him we can t win this case. because without michael we cannot place the defendant, physically in that store close to the time of barbers shooting. and then came a routine moment that we ve all seen in courtroom dramas on tv. the prosecutor, in this case steve kaplan, rose and told the judge we rest. the defense respond in this michigan courtroom just as predictably was to try to get the case thrown out. not enough evidence state hadn t met its burden, and asking the judge for what is called a directed verdict.
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of parole. all right for the jury please. the jury of eight women and four men filed in nervously as one juror explained. my hands were sweating and i took a look at michael george in nights of his family, and i was numb and scared at the same time. my brother says is your heart beating fast? i said yes it is. this is it. coming up the verdict! count number one first degree murder we find the defendant when dateline continues. continues dupixent is an add-on treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma that s not for sudden breathing problems. dupixent can cause allergic reactions that can be severe. get help right away if you have rash, chest pain, worsening shortness of breath, tingling or numbness in your limbs. tell your doctor about new or worsening joint aches and pain, or a parasitic infection. don t change or stop asthma medicines, including steroids, without talking to your doctor. ask your specialist about dupixent. i gotta good feeling about
anything else you ve heard? absolutely. he would come up with a new motive. meanwhile, the prosecutor back in michigan, the son of the one-time police chief was deeply curious about how this will be the interview was going. were you surprised to hear that he d talk to them? that he hadn t lawyered up? that heathens them getting on the phone with my attorney? very surprised. i think he was so shocked by the fact that we are still looking at him. so shocked that he did not to do. that s why we didn t call him. that s why we didn t give him a heads up. as the interview continues, michael george said he hadn t in 1990, he owned up to his philandering. describe for me your marriage to her at the time of her death. it was rocky because we had all the pressures. i just quit my job, open up the story. you know, we would have our fights. we would have our arguments. you say it s rocky and people have fights and arguments like that. what was the fights about? anything like extramar
have a case? no he s the only one who puts him at the scene. he s the only one who alone can destroy the defendants alibi. without him we don t need to issue a warrant. defense lawyers new their clients freedom dependent both on the challenging run odd stories and reinforcing the defendants alibi. so what we really had to focus on, what we hope to direct the jury to focus on was specifically that alibi. the defendants 1990s story was that he had left his clinton town ship shop sometime after four pm to go to his mother s house. she lived in hazel park about a half hour away. it s michael george s alibi that he was at his mother s house for about 4:30 to 7:30. a little after he arrived, his mother said she took her grandchildren to the park, and he was sleeping on the couch when they got back sometime after 6:00. barbara was murdered a little after 6:00. if michael george s account is