he s playing along with them in order to be able to apprehend them. and so, when he says to them, just tell me the name of the middleman so i know i can trust you, he s bluffing. he doesn t really know the name of the middleman. he s just trying to get that information out of them. absolutely. lowenstein said the only thing magdi was guilty of was trying to play detective. remember, he s been a suspect for ten years. the police have never left their vision of him as being the suspect. and because of that, he s got to essentially solve the case on his own. what would the jury think? on the day of closing arguments, richard and ryan walked to court together. they had brought something for prosecutor sonia balleste, a religious tile belonging to ariet. sonia wanted me to bring like an item like from our mom and stuff to have right there that she could hold onto. they learned the evidence-driven prosecutor had
enough talking. instead, the defense attorney showed the jury evidence which he said proved magdi was not guilty. magdi had written down the serial numbers of the 15, $100 bills he had given the undercover officers and he tried to write down the license plate of their vehicle, which says the defense cast that undercover video in a new light. he s playing along with them in order to be able to apprehend them. and so when he says to them, just tell me the name of the middleman so i know you can trust me, he s bluffing, he doesn t know the name of the middleman, he s trying to get that information out of them. absolutely. lowenstein said the only thing magdi was guilty of was trying to play detective. remember, he s been a suspect for ten years, the police have never left their vision of him as being the suspect, and because of that he s got to essentially solve the case on his own. what would the jury think?
case? it was huge. it was as if for an afternoon she came back to life and took the stand. ryan would need to channel that same strength of his mother s for what came next. he took the stand with magdi just feet away, a father s eyes bored into his son. i really felt like if he had me one on one, he would beat me down. he just wanted to, anything to get me to shut up. this time, ryan refused to keep quiet. telling the jury and his father about that terrible september night when two men broke into his home, beat him up, and repeatedly stabbed his mother in the next room. then ryan faced cross-examination, and defense attorney rudy lowenstein had already told the jury he planned
in spite of the damming testimony against magdi by his own sons, defense attorney rudy lowenstein, he tried to show jurors he did everything to provide a better life for them and his wife ariet. his life was dedicated to his family and making the american dream work for him. he was an immigrant who came with nothing and made something of himself. magdi had his flaws and he had done some bad things, the defense said, but he did not have ariet killed, but then what to make of those undercover tapes and magdi s apparent admission. you got paid everything. would magdi take the stand to explain what he meant on those tapes? no, apparently he felt he d done