a superstitious side. she wanted to have something of ariet s to touch during her last closing argument, to channel ariet s spirit and courage. she took the witness stand in the preliminary hearing and faced evil. and for the first time in her life stood up to him. she knew exactly what he would do to her for it. he had done some bad things in his life, but he didn t hire anybody to murder ariet girgis. he s innocent. there was nothing left to do now but wait. after nearly a decade, these final moments were perhaps the most excruciating. i don t know. this has been like a lot of anxiety built up right now. just wondering when the verdict s going to come in. i mean, it s going to be like any moment. sonia, already at her new job, waited for the phone to
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stay asleep longer, and wake up refreshed. the brand i trust is qunol. january 30th, 2013. the home where ariet girgis had met her awful death was suddenly once again the scene of an unexpected confrontation. saw my [ bleep ]. two men showed up on magdi girgis lawn. let me holler at you for a few ticks. let me holler at you for a second. and it was all caught on camera. check it out. me and my homie locked up in the pen right now. police approached him about him killing his wife for you in this [bleep] house. interesting, because prosecutor sonia bieste and detective wilson had just returned from visiting crips gang member anthony bridget in prison.
that? yes. sonia wanted a win. she wasn t scared to fail. did you think you were going to fail? i was very nervous, to say the least. it had taken nine years to get to this moment. a team of cops watched and video-taped as the undercovers approached magdi. he s stepping out of the car right now. everyone was on edge, except for the man cast in the role of d-money. you had to be going over in your mind, like, you know, if he says this, if he does this, i m going to no. things come out spontaneously. really? you have to be quick. you say a, i say b, you say c, i say d. you have to have something out there. there s nothing you can rehearse, nothing you can write down. you either can do it or you can t. still there was cause for worry. while these officers looked the part, they had never done anything like this before. were you worried at all about sort of their acting ability? i was concerned. too late now. it was on.
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
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