sandy cain never gets out of prison. she dies in prison without another day of freedom and rolling that kind of dice is a serious matter. okay. hi. how s it going? serious about the negotiation or yes. see now? the problem with getting possible plea at the last minute, now, do i waste the next couple of hours waiting time or do i keep on working? and then only find out it s all for naught? working. huh? working. i know. did you call up the d.a.? we have not. we came here first. find out how long it takes and then we ll all get together. in the end, the decision whether or not to plead guilty and accept the plea bargain was up to sandy and sandy alone. he s going to put down on the record what he thinks he can
she wrote to her friend. now i m at my wits end. i will go out but not alone. all hope has been stolen from me. and her friend would respond, please don t kill anyone. i really do think she was planning a murder/suicide and then she shot the old man and realized maybe life wasn t all that bad. do we have any inclination i went with my investigator over to sandy cain s workplace. we re heading to dr. kim s office, that s where sandy cain was working as a dental hygienist. and there s several ladies there, co-workers of her, who apparently sandy cain would talk to during her lunch breaks and confided in. i felt it was important to start a relationship and see if sandy cain had maybe opened her mouth and said something important. i m frank coumou with the d.a. s office. we need to pretrial the individuals, need to sit down
hello. hi, sandy. how s it going? how are you? all right. how are you? all right. how do you feel? okay. sandy cain was never okay. being charged with open murder, having never been charged with a crime in her life, dental hygienist and all of a sudden her life is turned upside down. nobody would be okay and sandy cain surely was not okay. you committed just what s called justifiable homicide and because state of mind is an issue of fact for a jury, what was going through your mind? were you really scared or not? in fear of your life or not. it is not unusual for people in your position to be in jail and face a jury on this. we had overwhelming evidence
flooding, as well in south carolina. the rain continuing tonight, historic amounts. thank you so much. more later here on msnbc. now back to our regular programming. vegas homicide: four shots fired. you have seen the murder case against sandy cain from both sides. the prosecution and the defense. you have also heard from sandy cain herself. now something you almost never see. dateline goes inside the judge s chambers where the real work of finding justice so often takes place. got to support each other. okay? it is going to be a little tough. we are going to be working our butts off this weekend. you know that. just because it was self defense and this was a justified homicide doesn t mean that 12 strangers would agree. even though we have got a powerful argument here, we have
and now the conclusion to our story. sandy cain has a choice to make. literally the decision of a lifetime. she can accept the deal the prosecution is offering or roll the dice in the ultimate gamble, a murder trial where a conviction could mean life in prison. our cameras have been there every step of the way. and now they re rolling as sandy cain decides. if you could print up an agreement, it s just because we have to get it done today if we re going to do it. it s not done but we can do it 10 to 25. i feel that that was sprung upon me. i had 24 hours to make the hardest decision of my life. maintaining our innocence. i agree with her to a large extent. in case like this, every client feels rushed because the judge is ready to try the case.