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Courtroom is going to like him and his defense attorney is being overly aggressive. the jury will also respect an aggressive defense attorney doing their job ethically and honestly treating the situation with respect. in this case i don t know that jeremiah donovan is treating the situation with respect. he referred to the petits as the petit posse, people there supporting the doctor that lost his family. he has gone after witnesses. he has attacked them. and the one thing he needs to realize is, they re not going to like his client. he better make darn sure they like him. i can t imagine them liking him. and like my great-grandmother used to say. catch more bees with honey than you do with vinegar. this guy, i don t know what he is thinking. jon: if he puts him on the stand does it open up new avenues, new doors for the prosecution, tad? well of course it does. if you put komisarjevsky on the stand, can you imagine having a day and a half to look into this guy s mindset? you know, j ....
Jon: tad, we brought you in here to bring us the prosecution s perspective here. but i m, i m sometimes wondering, komisarjevsky supposedly has more culpability in this crime than stephen hayes did. stephen hayes was already convicted and sentenced to die. if i m the defense attorney i might say, hey, why not? throw sort of a hail mary here and put my client on the stand? you hit the nail on the head, it is a hail mary. here is what the defense is looking at. with komisarjevsky they re playing the cards that he was less culble, not more culpable than hayes. they re trying to say hayes is the diabolical mastermind of this deal. they re saying hayes is the one that brought murder into the situation. and komisarjevsky, the whole time was saying hey, we re just here to rob these people. we re not here to kill them. where it gets dark for komisarjevsky his defense counsel is running out there and nobody is going to like komisarjevsky. nobody in that whole ....
Investigation, he takes the investigation one item at a time, he describes how he and his convicted accomplice, stephen hayes, on the right, who has been convicted of the crimes, tied up the entire pettitte family, how he, joshua komarsijesky, sexually assaulted kayla and said he and hayes argued in the pettitte house about killing them. we ve never heard these audiotapes at this trial. they were revealed last week to jurors and we ve got our hand on them into the newsroom last night, he told police he wanted no part of killing the family. listen: he s like well, then, you know, i ll kill the two daughters and you can kill the mom. i was like we re not killing anyone. i was like i don t know how to put it more matter of fact. komisarjevsky said it was hayes that soaked the house with gasoline and as they left he saw him light a ....
Match and flick it at the house. i could see the puddle of gasoline sitting on the tile floor in the kitchen and the entire kitchen just erupts. then like a sea of flame. just one match lit? yeah, the third one that he tried. just one match that caused all that damage, komisarjevsky said he closed the bedroom doors to buy them time but didn t think to untie them. martha: that is just horrific, that whole tale. what do we expect to hear in court? we have a state detective, she will tell jurors about the evidence collected at the scene, just before she took the stand yesterday. the former medical examiner who performed the autopsy on dollars oldest pettitte daughter hay lee told jurors she died of sphoepl inhalation. we have more coming throughout the day and will bring you the latest when we get it. bill: what an awful story to relive, for all of us. there is brand new ....
shepard: it is my understanding that the jury is expected to hear some sort of recorded statement, something that the suspect recorded for them to see, is that right? reporter: to hear, komisarjevsky laid out what he says happened inside the home, a recording done after his arrest, from the very beginning, he has blamed his accomplice for escalating the violence inside the home. telling the investigators hayes raped and strangled mrs. petit and who panicked when things went side ways and wanted to pore gasoline throughout the house. each suspect has blamed the other for striking the setting off of the inferno that killed the two daughter. komisarjevsky has been the more vocal of the two, and in addition to the confession he gave detailed diaries to a book author admitting to why he targeted the family, why he beat the doctor with a baseball bat and the sexual assault on the ....