standard that shows that every firearm makes unique marks. as for the volatile relationship described in the order of protection, the defense pointed out that smoot never admitted to any of the allegations, and he was never charged. the order doesn t mean that mr. smoot ever did anything. it doesn t mean that mr. smoot admit thad he did anything. and the order of protection didn t prevent them from seeing each other, which they clearly did. miss morris told the judge that she wanted to have social contact with mr. smoot. jolly argued if brooke was so afraid of smoot, why would she keep seeing him? after all, phone records showed she was the one who called him that day. she conned to treat shawn as a friend, as someone she could do activities with. were you worried that could
because of the time the game ended, detectives concluded daniel couldn t have been in roan county at the time of the murder. he was eventually cleared by authorities. here s video of them at one of the restaurants he said they went to. here they are taking their drink on to the patio. another camera captured the couple leaving 6:30 p.m.. brooke is walking several steps ahead of shawn. something chief philips thought was telling. normally people were happy and all that stuff, you d think they d walk out together. if there was something going on, maybe she was like, i want to get away from him or whatever. i ll be glad when he droops me off at my car. this is the parking lot where smoot says he dropped brooke off at her car. none of the security cameras
you that, okay, they can go arrest him now, like we know who did it? oh, absolutely. but that didn t happen. hmm-mm. and i kept thinking, well, surely any day now, any day now. investigators had their suspicions as well, and they were trying to build a case against smoot. he was the last to see her alive. they had an allegedly violent relationship. he had lied to investigators, but so far they had found no physical evidence tying him to the crime. you were able to search shaun smoot s apartment. we were. did you find anything? we found an empty box that once contained a firearm with empty ammunition. no gun. no gun. it was the same caliber as the murder weapon. and the ammo? it was the same style found
if we didn t feel like we could prosecute it and be successful, we would have never indicted it or proceeded with it. circumstantial cases allow you to be creative. you can take a set of facts and weave a story together for your theory of prosecution. shaun smoot insisted he was innocent. he cycled through five different defense attorneys and the trial was delayed again and again. it was surreal. it took 22 times. robert jolly, smoot s fifth attorney believed the state s case was weak for one simple reason. i don t think that they did very shore row investigations of anyone other than mr. smoot, and
even his investigation wasn t thorough. jolly told the jury just how little that investigation had uncovered. there are no fingerprints. there s no gunshot residue tests. no dna tests, there s absolutely no evidence that links mr. smoot to it. they did state the evidence they had wasn t incriminating. the weapon he owned was the same caliber as the murder weapon, but there are however many million people in this country who own guns and this was a common weapon. the ballistics report showed there was no actual science behind it. there s no scientific evidence of that or any standards that show that. there s not currently a