of a police car. i didn t see any motion from him at all, sir. who later confessed, the prosecutor said, to killing his wife. and then i said, it was an accident? and he said now. but those facts were not where the case ended. the prosecutor argued that they simply set the stage for the real case, a story told by the victims friends, family, and most importantly by a star witness. my opinion is that the manner of death is a homicide. doctor michael biden, a famous forensic pathologists told jurors the crime scene spoke of a murder, not an accident. if a person falls accidentally, the individual will be, you know, within a couple of feet of the base of the building. and that didn t happen in the case of jody scharf. her body landed 50 feet out from the top of the cliff and 30 feet to the north.
that way, jurors could ve judged stephen scharf s supposedly a demeanor for himself. why didn t you? he wasn t in custody, i don t know. they also argued that the police in misinterpreted with the clients said in his home just hours later. my client never said this wasn t an accident. and as for that hammer that police thought was a weapon the hammer was investigated by the forensic experts. there was nothing found on that hammer. and the defense attorney press the medical examiner on her flip-flop. undetermined manner of death in 93 now, it was a homicide? really? are you trying to say that you are learning from your mistakes on this case? you make all the mistakes, sir. i did the best they could in 1992 documenting what i had observed with mrs. scharf. the medical examiner was helpful to the defense in one critical way, though.
in closing, blinkers insisted that this wasn t a murder case, just a sad story about a woman who tumbled drunkenly to her death. this case is an accident. nothing more, nothing less. soon, it would be in the hands of a jury. coming up. it was the light bulb. you couldn t help but think, that s interesting. the jurors speak. what would they decide? stephen, did you kill your wife, jody? the verdict. when dateline continues. hide my skin? not me. by hitting eczema where it counts, dupixent helps heal your skin from within, keeping you one step ahead of eczema. and that means long-lasting clearer skin. and fast itch relief for adults.
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same message? when they walked into that deliberating room for the first time, some jurors in fact planned to vote not guilty. there wasn t enough evidence for me. that s what it was. others were thinking guilty. it was several things. it was no one thing that made up my mind. the jurors went back and forth over the evidence and here is what they came to believe. that showed it was likely drunk and that her husband knew it. and if that was the case, why would he let her get so close to the edge of a cliff? as the hum husband, knowing that your wife was drinking, would you bring her there? the jurors deliberated three days before deciding whether stephen scharf should be found guilty or not guilty of a single count of murder. and the charge of murder of jody and scharf, the verdict is? guilty. guilty.