paul zumot himself appears to have demanded it. the chance to defend himself to the jury by testifying. some courtroom observers believe testifying was in fact, risky. especially for paul, said his friend. knowing paul the way i know paul and the way that he could be interpreted incorrectly, i was very nervous about paul taking the stand. risky or not, paul was determined to tell the jury his side of the story. coming up. i thought, you know, if there was any way this jury thought this man was responsible for this, now they know for sure that he s not. but what did the jury think? when burning suspicion continues.
the jury by testifying. some courtroom observers believe the defense had already created a reasonable doubt that testifying was in fact, risky. especially for paul, said his friend. knowing paul the way i know paul and the way he could be interpreted incorrectly, i was very nervous about paul taking the stand. risky or not, paul was determined to tell the jury his side of the story. i thought, you know, if there was any way this jury thought this man was responsible for this, now they know for sure that he s not. what did the jury think?
the solution? paul zumot himself appears to have demanded it. the chance to defend himself to the jury by testifying. some courtroom observers believe the defense had already created a reasonable doubt that testifying was in fact, risky. especially for paul, said his friend. knowing paul the way i know paul and the way he could be interpreted incorrectly, i was very nervous about paul taking the stand. risky or not, paul was determined to tell the jury his side of the story. coming up. i thought, you know, if there was any way this jury thought this man was responsible for this, now they know for sure he s not. but what did the jury think? when burning suspicion continues. you wouldn t accept an incomplete job
it gets me loving him and admiring him, that he admires me. and then it makes me trust his opinion and what he says about me and thinks about me. so then, as soon as he gets to that point, he flips it and calls me ugly, fat, a gold digger. by the way, the person she s talking to, hisham ganma. he s one of the brothers that zu you mot told police she was afraid of. it was recorded a few months before the fire, but then she was not happy about paul. not at that point, anyway. i have pictures that he did of the damage he did to all of my furniture. kicked in my car. somebody saw him at starbucks spit in my face on my way to work. but things clearly changed after that. remember, they were all lovie
didn t know if jennifer was inside or outside, whether she was alive or dead. but and in the time he was there, he made 38 calls and text messages. two of which went to jennifer. on neither occasion did he leave jennifer a message. he spoke with others. he text messaged, for instance, the same friend multiple times. but in that two-hour riod, at no time does he leave that location to look for jenner, perhaps, to go to the other side of the blocked off street. you know, if he called her and texted her once, surely that s enough. i mean, she ll call him back. the cell phone records actually bear out that he s a person that would call or text her 200 to 300 times a day if he wasn t able to get ahold of her. her silence at the crime scene is telling. he stood that location because he wanted people to see him there. but how could the jury be sure paul was guilty? prosecutor gillingham offered