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flaws in that story. the ivy league student had been arrested and was facing second degree murder charges. was this an intentional killing or justifiable homicide? here again is dennis murphy with house of secrets. anna valentine was in a state of disbelief when she learned that her close friend charlie tan had been arrested. did you have a chance to talk to charlie himself in that period? he called me on the phone a couple times from jail. anna didn t sit around. she was going to do whatever she could to defend her friend, because she knew there was no way charlie did anything wrong. you did something remarkable. you sort of pulled together a whole community behind charlie. yeah. anna started a defense fund support page for charlie. and it just like spread crazy. i had no clue what was going to happen. you threw out there on the net. i put out the page and told my friends i did it. people i hadn t even heard of were supporting him. people from the community,
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it s a murder charge, not a petty larceny charge. with a hung jury where you walk away from it. we understand that the d.a. s office is not going to walk away from a homicide. how will it look differently? better for me. that s how it will look differently. unfortunately for charlie s attorneys, they d already played their surprise defense, mom really did it. there would be no shock value in a second trial. frankly, we ve got to face this like a brand-new case starting today. hung juries are a case in which you have to reinvent the wheel. in november of 2015, weeks after the trial ended, both sides were back in the same court, before the same judge, who two days earlier had won the state supreme court seat. it was a routine hearing to talk retrial logistics. we were figuring a january trial date. the reporter, john hand, who had been there for the entire trial was in attendance, too. there were a number of charlie s friends there. myself and roughly four or five other
helping his mother. by killing his father. that was the solution. that was our theory, yes. the gun was found at the murder scene. his fingerprints are on the his mother, again his mother saying my son did it. and charlie saying he had to do it. but did he have to do it? that was the key question. and the prosecution said no. this was no justifiable homicide. this was an execution. in fact, the weapon, a .12 gauge remington shotgun, had been purchased just for the killing. it had just been bought from a walmart near cornell. so we sent investigators down there, and as they began to look into that, they found that the gun had been purchased by a young man named whitney knickerbocker. newly purchased. newly purchased. by a new name all together here. correct. the purchase had taken place february 2015, the same day