we may have someone here that will follow my footsteps and preside over the white house with her spouse. and i wish him well . she gave one of hur last television interviews for cnn stumping iff efor her son jed. what do you think of donald trump? i don t even think about him. i m sick of him. . she s very pretty. she loves alaska. i hope she stays there. he s by far the most qualified men. but there are other people out there that are very qualified.
decision day in the retrial of john stoll. what the judge rules will determine stoll s fate. back to prison as a sex offender or out as a free man. the ruling on the petition for a writ of habeas corpus is as follows from the start it looked bad for john stoll. the judge pointed out some inconsistencies in the boy s 20-year-old recollections. a judge talked about everything that was bad about our case. the judge also pointed out that not only had stoll s son jed testified that his father molested him, jed also said no one put words in his mouth or forced him to say things that weren t true. and the judge never considered the allegation that a prosecutor coached the boys. but then, 18 minutes into the ruling, the judge suddenly shifted direction in stoll s favor, ruling that the
and i was really proud of him. he actually turned out okay. proud? the son stoll says he was so proud of got up on the stand and stood by his testimony from 20 years before. he told the court he was sure his father molested him. when jed said that he thought i molested him, that just that s a killer. that hurt so bad. that hurts. i mean, he thinks something happened. and maybe after all those years of hearing it something did happen, maybe he believes it. how do you feel about him? about jed? i love him. he s my son. i m sorry he feels that way, but
liked her boyfriend tim. and we got along well. and your kid played with her kids? mm-hmm. jed would only come on the weekends, he didn t have any little buddies but he knew don and allen. so i would say, margie bring them on over? yeah, come on over. and then it started visiting, and then it s overnights. you know, can we stay the night? sure. what the heck, yeah. no problem. what was your first inkling that something was wrong? the day i came home from work and my kids were gone. children gone? her boyfriend had been baby sitting, she said. he said some people came and took my kids. i said, who? he said, cps workers. child protective services? yes, yes. we had no idea why they took them. we walked over to the courthouse to clear it up. and when she got there, arrested. she and her boyfriend just hour ch other in thbooking room.
against him, stoll s conviction seemed all but assured. so the prosecutors offered stoll what appeared to be a generous plea bargain. what deal did they offer you? 12 years. why didn t you take it? i m no child molester. or so he said. but then john stoll s son jed and five other little boys took the stand and gave humiliating testimony before a judge and jury. the children hung their heads and answered yes or no to explicit questions about horrific acts of molestation. you re down there sitting at your table in the courtroom listening to your son. yeah. what was that like for you? devastating is a good word. it really hurt. detectives never found any physical evidence of a crime. but the heartbreaking testimony of six little boys was all the evidence prosecutors needed. stoll was found guilty. not just guilty.