court. he turned to lewis s wife, crystal lowrie. i thought from the very beginning that we would need to meet crystal, and it would be important in the case for her to testify. he made a deal with crystal, and she agreed to testify against her husband and plead guilty to murder and kidnapping, for a reduced sentence, 30 years. it s good for the jury to be able to hear the back story of what went on, and the why of what went on. aaron lewis went on trial. the prosecution star witness crystal lowrie, took the stand and told the jury all the grisly details. she claimed it was all about money, not about sex. she said he came up with the idea of kidnapping someone, but she went too far to say real estate agents. she testified she was in class at nursing school when lewis abducted beverley. she got a text from aaron lewis, saying look at this, or
the defense also addressed the gunshot residue found on julius close, which seemed to undermine her story that she was behind a wall, 60 feet away from where the gun went off. julia s lawyer argued that there wasn t enough residue found on julia to do an accurate test. if this had been the fbi lab, any of our military labs, they could not have justified that the gunshots residue were there because a number of particles were there did not meet the trash hold. the defense team continued to pound home the notion that there was no physical as it and linking her to the murder. and if this was a murder for hire, they asked, where was the killer? they built a case based on no evidence. they want to say to you, we have no idea what happened, but we want you to guess at the victim. that s not how it works. next, the defense attacked the prosecution star witness guy blankenship, the man who said julia had hired him to kill melfort and. they said he was a criminal, and not to mention he
the prosecution star witness testified today in the first trial sparked by special counsel john durham s investigation. he was appointed during the trump administration to look for any possible wrongdoing in the origins of the trump-russia probe. he has charged michael susman, the tall man with dark hair, who was an attorney for hillary clinton, charged him for lying to the fbi, alleging that he tried to conceal his political motives for passing along a tip about the trump organization s dealings with a russian bank. susman is pleading not guilty. cnn s evan perez is covering the trial for us. who is the prosecution s star witness, and what did he have to say? reporter: jake, the star witness is james baker. he is the former fbi general counsel, and a former contributor here at cnn. he met in september 2016 with michael susman to discuss this tip about purported suspicious
very little. a question about the truck. not a kill with but dazzle am. a search that led to a wikipedia page. that search says nothing. as for the prosecution star witness, forensic video analysts that placed gilberto s at the scene, defenses that his findings prove nothing. even the expert does say, yes, i seen the video surveillance it is tom coleman with gilbert on the car. no. he didn t even see if one went from one car to the other car. the defense raised one other possibility over who else was in the suv. they reminded jurors that tom was found with his clothes disappear disheveled and his them tie ended, some suggested that tom had some sort of liaison plant. a search of his phone revealed that he had received an email from a hook website called b
testifying, claiming that police had threatened him with jail time, if he did not say that cory was a shooter. he goes, you know what, i can do this. would i just testified to is not the truth. i was told to say it by these detectives. i didn t see cory do anything. next, norwood tracked down the prosecution star witness. he told him, he had lied to. when he identified cory s killer. his claim is that the police pressured him to say it, and then, the prosecutor got him to the trial, getting him to say it. then, there was cory s friend, who had been with him the night of the shooting, ben king. the one who said on that interrogation video that cory did it, but king said, he had told police twice before, that cory did not do it. he didn t do, it we do, and cory do it.