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outside the courtroom, jarrod s parents let their pent-up emotion fill the building. we belong to a club now, never wanted to be in it. it s called family of murdered victims. when dateline spoke to the released jurors and revealed the tales of those defense allegations withheld from them, there was a very slight pause, and then well, there s other ways to deal with that besides murdering him, you know. but that s an interesting question. it is. because we knew we didn t know the we didn t know anything. the motive. i don t think it would have mattered. we weren t there trying jarrod for abuse. we were there trying somebody for murder. but for defense attorney robert landheer, the fact that the jurors never heard mindy s story represented a lack of justice. she had not been permitted to tell jurors that she and her ....
defense attorney robert landheer seemed almost aimless as he tried to chip away at the overwhelming evidence against mindy, increasingly frustrated by the restrictions placed on his client by the court. i think he used the words it was an emotional jumble for them. objection, move to strike, irrelevant. thwarted at every turn from telling phil and mindy s story objection, irrelevant. he looked as if he might give up. it s irrelevant as to this witness. when the opportunity came to cross-examine the prosecution s star witness, phil, he decided the risk was just too big. at this time, we d have no questions. but here, as the trial drew to its close, observers sensed landheer had little left to lose. he looked straight at members of the jury. he challenged them to think about why. the air grew tense in here. landheer seemed about to take his chance and raise the forbidden topic of motive. ....
alone? alone. and not why. but it s often impossible to know just what a jury will think of the evidence, especially when it s accompanied by a motive that s never addressed directly, but only hinted at repeatedly. i was really appalled at what the defense did, you know, bringing up things that or hinting at things that were not even brought up in the trial. in fact, the jury was so confused by what it considered a lack of coherent defense, it had some wondering if it was a strategy. what would the strategy be? well, we didn t know exactly what could be expected of him, but i felt like he failed her as a defense attorney. his final statements were an oration, but up to that point, we got nothing to work with from him. he said nothing on behalf of ....