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paul moore had found ways to charm the folks around him and get away with bad behavior. at his trial here in sacramento, paul s defense attorney followed what was by now a familiar script. she accused peter of murdering roberto ayala. linda parisi: peter moore has a lifetime of making threats. paul does not make threats to roberto. paul works with roberto. keith morrison (voiceover): which is how parisi presented paul to the jury. of course, as you know, paul had a deeply troubled history with the law, violent sexual offense in his background, but the jury didn t get to hear about that. nor were they told about the dna, quite possibly paul s, that was found on the envelope containing the bomb diagram, excluded. so would the jury see the same paul moore that prosecutor s saw? he s almost like a marvel comic book arch villain. he s bright. he s clever. he s evil as can be, and he s got a flaw to him. his flaw is his arrogance.
at his trial here in sacramento paul s defense attorney followed what was by now a familiar script. she accused peter of murdering roberto ayala. peter moore has a lifetime of making threats. paul does not make threats to roberto. paul works with roberto. which is how parisi presented paul to the jury. of course, as you know, paul had a deeply troubled history with the law. violent sexual offense in his background. but the jury didn t get to hear about that. nor were they told about the dna, quite possibly paul s, that was found on the envelope containing the bomb diagram. excluded. so would the jury see the same paul moore that prosecutors saw? he s almost like a marvel comic book archvillain. he s bright, he s clever, he s evil as can be, and he s got a flaw to him. his flaw is his arrogance. reporter: the jury retired to think about it. and they were not fooled. after just five hours of
at his trial here in sacramento paul s defense attorney followed what was by now a familiar script. she accused peter of murdering roberto ayala. peter moore has a lifetime of making threats. paul does not make threats to roberto. paul works with roberto. which is how parisi presented paul to the jury. of course if you know paul had a deeply troubled history with the law. violent sexual offense in his background. but the jury didn t get to hear about that. nor were they told about the dna. quite possibly paul. that was found on the envelope containing the bomb diagram. excluded. would the jury see the same paul moore prosecutors saw? he is almost like a marvel comic book arch villain. he s bright, clever, evil as can be and he has a flaw. his flaw is his arrogance. the jury retired. to think about it.
odd. yes. odd how? you don t hear a lot about a lot of families but you hear about the moore family. reporter: because they complain publicly about other wings of the family or at least complain in such a way that people complain in a way that other people found out about it. reporter: now the two cousins? pete i ve known for years almost since i ve been here. had a reputation for being a real hot head. a lot of mouth. he couldn t back it up. but he had a lot of mouth. without hardly an effort pete could tick you off. reporter: so when paul came to the authorities and said, i think pete is responsible for this, did the suspicion seem plausible? yes. reporter: yeah. it did. we knew pete didn t get along with his family. we knew pete had a hot head. we knew pete had access to the property. reporter: and for paul to denounce peter who was like his brother, sad, perhaps, but made sense to the da s office, which signed off on the warrant to have pete s house sear