nick hillary s attorney, mani tafari, also off-camera, was raising objections to protect an appeal. still nick did go on to answer almost everything. at some point, did that relationship that you had with miss cyrus end? objection. relevance. yes. but when the questions turned personal, nick seemed to get a case of amnesia. did you approach miss cyrus and discuss with her the possibility of breaking up? i cannot recall. did miss cyrus ever discuss with you her two boys relationship with you as a basis for ending the relationship? i cannot recall. if she had told you that that s why she wanted to end the the relationship, is that something you think you would have remembered? objection. i cannot recall. people remember why they broke up with their high school girlfriend. you know, you can t remember why this relationship with a woman you lived with for seven or eight months broke up? tandy had said she broke up with nick because garrett hated his rules. and t
how could she find the victim s killer? on election night the voters spoke. mary rain came from behind to win the d.a. s job, 52%-48%. the two potsdam voters with perhaps the greatest rooting interest in the outcome had opposite reactions. i felt relief. i felt like something was finally going to happen. i was alarmed a little bit, not surprised. the new d.a., as promised, immediately plunged into this confounding case, and she d soon get lucky again and come up with something her predecessor never had, the prime suspect under oath, but this time on video. coming up/ nick hillary s hazy memory. i cannot recall. i cannot recall. i cannot recall. if people remember why they broke up with their high school girlfriend, you can t remember why this relationship broke up?
defending the potsdam police department in a civil lawsuit brought by nick hillary. at a preliminary hearing nick had just confirmed that it was him in this car, seen on security camera video at the high school. nick said he was there to watch a game. but in the footage a school bus seems to block his view. the honda slowly moves, settling into this parking spot, red taillights on. but from there nick still can t see the game. nor does he try to get a closer look. he never gets out of his car. he never shuts the vehicle off. so why was he really there? the answer, according to tom, was about to skate into view. at 4:52 p.m., here comes garrett at the bottom of the screen. cruising down the sidewalk on his ripstik, blissfully unaware that in just a few minutes he ll be viciously attacked and left for dead. after about 16 seconds on camera he skates out of frame, turning left on his way home. nick s brake lights come on within a second of garrett going out of view. and he backs his
like 9:30 tomorrow morning i m going to be doing thus and such and at 11:00 i m going to be doing this? yes. very structured. did he bring that into your life and into the family? he tried. he tried. it wasn t well received. especially not by garrett, a spontaneous, ants-in-the-pants kid. but according to tandy, nick was increasingly acting the drill instructor with both the boy and his mother. if i didn t get garrett under control or get him on a more strict schedule, then when he got older i wasn t going to be able to control him. he was all about control. was that too much? was he asking you too much? very much so. that s not how i am. that s not how my kids were. and he wanted them to change. tandy said nick s inflexibility brought it all crashing down. she said garrett had told her about one incident with one of nick s children. there was kind of an argument between garrett and his daughter that turned into an argument between the two of us. he took his dau
her. she was a very controlled, very competent witness. and she testified about the times, she said, nick let himself into her apartment uninvited. i was getting very annoyed with the fact that he wouldn t leave me alone. he obsessed about the breakup. next, the prosecution presented evidence that garrett died from a choke hold, a ghastly combination of strangulation and asphyxiation. rug burns on garrett s legs and red marks on his neck pointed to a desperate struggle. it was a crime of passion, insisted fitzpatrick, pointing to nick as the only person hostile to garrett. this is somebody that chokes the life with a high degree of hatred of a 12-year-old boy. he talks about an amicable breakup. it was not amicable at that point because he was not happy. tandy was amicable, but he was not. he was very, very angry. prosecutors used video to try to prove their case, a one-two punch of nick hillary on camera. they played for the judge the security video of nick s honda in