dr. breggin testified that david had been taking anti-depressants on and off for years, and that, what david did, was the drugs fault. so i think the whole thing evolves out of a progressive hammering of his brain by the drugs. it was drug-induced violence, the doctor told the jury. drug-induced murder. back in the courtroom, angie listened to this, and upset would not be quite the right word. it was laughable almost, and just that you can how much money they had to spend to find this guy who is going to say exactly what the defense wants him to say. were you afraid the jury would buy it? um, of course, you re always a little afraid. because it s scary to think that he could potentially get off with the insanity plea.
see who she talked to in the hours and days before justin was shot to death. they also got a search warrant for david moffitt s house. and inside? no, they didn t find the murder weapon either. but they did find these strange notes, seemed to have been written by someone who had been watching justin and angie s neighborhood. those surveillance notes listed addresses in the immediate area around the crime scene. and they were very specific about when neighbors were turning on and off their lights. the creek behind the house is is it wide enough where i can jump across that? obviously, it looked like a way to make an escape once the murder was done. reporter: but then they found what looked like the mother lode a bill of sale. it was in andy wegener s name reporter: yeah! but there it was in david moffitt s house. reporter: that is, the bill of sale for a .9 mm carbine. and the name on the document, bold as brass, was indeed andy wegener. how was that remotely possibl
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weren t thrown out of the car. i was just getting ready to get back into my car and i hear somebody yell, i need help. i was like, was this your car? yeah, that s my car. soon as he gets close to me, he has this real like a very sweet smell coming off of him. so i automatically okay, this is a dwi. why would you say a sweet smell means it could be a drunken driving thing?wa just the time of day, and o there s a car accident involvedb single vehicle. i mean, it just kind of goes with it. definitely smelled like he d been drinking. was he glad to see you? i don t know if he was glad to see me, but i mean, you were potentially going to rescue him from a bad situation, you d think. he saw somebody that might be able to help him, but i don t know if he was necessarily happy to see me.ec reporter: david moffitt told him he was on his way home from visiting his brother that night. so then i basically asked him, like, there s no way in chance maybe you re visited a
jury s going to do. it s always an anxious moment when you re trying to wait for them to return a verdict. oh, but it wasn t a moment. hour after hour, they waited. and then, almost seven hours later the judge asks do we have a verdict? the jury says they do. we find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree. if david moffitt felt anything in that moment, he didn t show it. nothing. stone cold reaction. almost gave you chills up your spine. the insanity defense clearly did not work. the threshold that you have to reach for an insanity defense is that you don t understand the nature and consequences of your actions, or you don t understand the difference between right and wrong. that s an incredibly high threshold. you look at the degree of premeditation, the degree of planning that went into that. those are not the actions of an insane person. it does nothing to bring