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Is that your truck?
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It's not my truck.
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The truck on the video?
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No.
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There was a lot of people that thought
Mike could have done it.
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No one was immune from examination.
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Everyone was a suspect.
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Kavanaugh was a walking, talking red flag.
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This guy's a maniac who had a motive to
kill.
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Why couldn't they run the DNA through
CODIS?
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Why couldn't they go find Dan Kavanaugh?
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Why couldn't they do a lot of things they
could have easily done?
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They kept saying it over and over.
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There's Dan Kavanaugh.
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What about Dan Kavanaugh?
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What about Dan Kavanaugh?
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I'm like, what do they have that I missed?
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When you look at the
phones, with the car, with the
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financial fraud, with his
behavior, this is who did it.
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I'm not convinced we're going yet.
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Listening my dad yesterday, he said he was
about 90% sure that he's going to testify.
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We all assumed he would testify just
because of his narcissism.
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There's no way he wouldn't let this whole
trial go without him having his say.
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As far as me testifying, it's going to put
me over the edge one way or the other.
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And obviously, I'm a gambler.
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How do you guys feel about Chase possibly
testifying?
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Good, bad?
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I told him that I don't think you should
testify.
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He wants to because, I mean, he knows the
case better than anyone.
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But at the same time, like,
you took the stand, and, like,
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you've seen how easily they
can twist anything that you say.
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Just the interviews that Chase
did before he got arrested, you
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know, with CNN and stuff, and
the way they picked that apart.
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Everyone sees what they want to see in it.
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Exactly.
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So you said you cooperated a great deal
with authorities.
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You were questioned by detectives.
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What did they ask you?
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Of course.
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The standard questions, you know, just
do I know anything about him disappearing?
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Um, did I have anything to do with it?
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As far as you know, you
were the last person, or
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at least one of the last
people to see him, right?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Um, when he left Rancho Cucamonga,
nobody else, uh, although I think
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somebody, there was another person or two
that he talked to.
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I'm not sure.
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But you were the last person he saw.
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I'm definitely the last person he saw.
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First time I saw it was-it was then.
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And I just about fell off the chair,
either couch, whatever I was sitting on.
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Most common thing you would say would be,
I could have been the last person he saw.
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I might have been the last person he saw-
I mean I most definitely Unfortunately,
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was the last person he saw.
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And the only person who knows that is the
killer.
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No one else could know that.
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He knows the timeline.
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He was the last person anyone knows of to
have met Joey.
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It could be a figure of speech.
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Sure, can you make an argument that he's
not the smartest tool in the shed,
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and when he answered her question in that
interview, he didn't quite realize the
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impact of what he was saying, because he's
not that bright?
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Maybe.
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Those are his words.
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It eliminated all question in my mind
then.
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It was Chase Merritt.
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There was no doubt about it.
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Gina was the same way.
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Honestly, out of everything
in that whole trial that I saw,
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I honestly believe that that
was that video that did it.
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I'm definitely the last person we saw.
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How could you say that you were the last
person to see him alive?
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Unless you knew that.
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How could you say that?
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Detective DeGaulle
specifically told me that I
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was definitely the last
person to see them alive.
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When you reflect back
on who could be telling, or
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who could be withholding
things, it's usually not it.
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The closest person.
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The closest person, the last person to
see, it's you.
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You go, who is the closest person to
Joseph?
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Probably you.
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One of them.
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Who is the last person to see Joseph?
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You.
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And so they go... Last
person to Dr. Joseph.
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Who's this Chase guy?
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How do you know he's telling you the
truth?
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And so when I'm asked in a CNN interview,
were you the last person to see him?
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I responded, yeah, I'm definitely the last
person to see him.
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I'm simply repeating what I was told.
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It's ridiculous to take it out of context.
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They were searching for anything that could
possibly be used to convince the jury.
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Anything you say can and will be used
against you.
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What's going on with Mr. Merritt possibly
testifying?
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You know, that's, ultimately, that
question is up to Chase.
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I mean, he's going to ultimately make the
decision on that.
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We can only kind of weigh in.
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Well, we'll go over, I'd like to go over
some of the things that, if I were on that
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stand, I think, would be necessary for me
to let the jury know.
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See, but the thing that you focus on,
what worries me about, you know,
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aside from the fact that it's just not a
good idea, but what worries me is you
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focus on the financial issues because it's
important to you.
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No, actually, you haven't gone over with
me what I actually would like to,
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if I was on that stand, what I would
personally like to say.
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I wanted to testify.
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I kept telling my eight attorneys.
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Fear of the facts.
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If you don't know them, learn them.
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So, we're in a good place, Chase.
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We're at reasonable doubt.
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You get on the stand, whoa.
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They're going to take you through the
whole crime.
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Every aspect of your
life now, no matter what it
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was, is going to be
cast in a different light.
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They're going to talk about things that
you're not even prepared to answer,
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and they're going to make you look like a
liar.
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They're going to cross
you on things that you don't
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even realize, including
your criminal convictions.
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So, it's not going to be pretty.
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In my past, I stole things.
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I was arrested for burglary.
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These things are, you know, obviously all
public record.
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I mean, they're all over the internet now.
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They just have a very, very skewed...
skewed view of it, because, you know,
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they look at my past, and then they tie it
together with what they're accusing me of
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here, and they're saying, well,
look, you know, this is who he is.
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Mr. Merritt, you understand you have an
absolute right to testify if you want to.
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Nobody can stop you from testifying,
including your lawyers.
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Do you understand that?
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Yes.
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Do you wish to testify or not?
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Your Honor, I think
there is one other issue that
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Mr. Merritt wanted to address
before making that decision.
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That is the use of
which priors, or if any
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priors, would come in
during cross-examination.
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Okay.
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We'd object to... We'd
object to any about that.
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Well, I... I think I remember some
discussion about a burglary conviction.
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I'm gonna refresh my recollection now.
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June 6th, 1977, he was convicted of
burglary out of Victorville Superior Court.
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And November 8th of 1977, he was convicted
of petty theft of misdemeanor,
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which resulted in a two-year prison
sentence.
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On August 30th, 1979, he was convicted of
burglary again.
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September 2001, he was convicted of
second-degree burglary and grand theft out of L.
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A.
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County, where he was given three years
probation, 180 days county jail.
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When he came out, I
didn't even know what his
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decision was gonna be
until the judge asked him.
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You didn't know until that
last... Until that last second.
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So, Mr. Merritt, you've
had a chance to have some
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additional discussion
now with your attorneys?
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Yes.
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So, what's your decision?
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Do you want to testify or not?
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No.
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I want it to so bad, I can taste it.
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When I'm answering the judge, I can barely
speak.
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Because I'm regretting.
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I was really upset.
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I do my time even at no uncertain terms,
I want to testify.
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I can't just sit up here to ramble on.
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So, I had penned on Ms. McKee to know the
facts.
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I didn't ask the proper questions.
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And I had absolutely no confidence.
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He, number one, knew the facts.
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I actually believed in my case even more
than I already have.
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So, I didn't have any choice
but to... without a test claim.
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That's the only reason I
could... No other reason.
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I have to say I was surprised he didn't
take the stand.
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I really was.
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I thought that for sure he would.
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Because, you know, he's...
He's pretty narcissistic.
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It's a tough decision that you had to make
today.
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It doesn't mean that you don't have a lot
of good things to say.
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You do.
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But, on the issue of have they proven
their case...
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You know, that's the...
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That's the, um...
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You know, that's the analysis.
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Well... It's the jury
gonna see it, darling.
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Yeah.
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In a murder case, they don't have to have
a smoking gun.
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Open that bed.
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They just simply have to...
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Believe...
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Beyond a reasonable doubt...
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That it happened.
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I'm sorry.
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Yeah.
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I'm just not sure where we are here.
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Now to California, where the defense and
the state are fighting it out right until
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the end, in the capital murder case
against Charles Merritt.
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It was a full house in that San Bernardino
courtroom today, as family and friends of
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both the victims and the defendant crowded
in to listen to closing arguments.
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This is your final proclamation of,
this is why you find the defendant guilty.
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So if you don't have that anticipation of,
let's go hit it out of the park,
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then you're not doing your job right.
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All right.
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The record is like we are back in session.
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The studies and council are present.
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The limits of our jury are present.
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And people may give your closing
statement.
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Thank you.
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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
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Good morning.
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Good morning.
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How does a family of four disappear off
the face of the earth?
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A mother, a father, and two young
children.
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Just gone.
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Disappeared with no
evidence of contact with
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another human being
after the February 4th.
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Only to be found, buried
in two shallow graves
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in the Bahati desert
north of Victorville.
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Three years, nine months later.
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The only way that happens, ladies and
gentlemen, is murder.
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And in this case, it was done locally,
deliberately, and with premeditation.
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Whatever precipitated the first killing
ultimately won't matter.
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Because what will matter is, you
intentionally didn't kill three other people.
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He could have stopped.
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You don't need to kill
those two kids unless you
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know that they can
identify who the killer is.
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The killing of Summer and those kids and
Joe was senseless.
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And it was violent.
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It was blow after blow after blow to a
child's skull.
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A three-year-old and a four-year-old.
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That is an intentional killing by this
man, the defendant, Charles Merritt.
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The hammer scared the daylights out of me.
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I had no idea that Britt had the hammer or
that he was going to use it.
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Never mind what the facts are, we have
this family that was brutally murdered.
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And that's the emotional presentation they
made.
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Hitting the table.
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Somebody has to pay.
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We knew going in that was going to be a
problem.
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How can you assertively sell someone?
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I was definitely the last person to see
them alive.
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Was in fact the killer.
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The person who took that sledgehammer to
the skull of a three-year-old.
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And a four-year-old.
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He's off the grid on February 4th.
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Presumably those murders were killed or
occurred.
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He was off the grid at that opportunity
for three and a half hours.
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After which there's no contact from Joe or
Summer.
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And where's the defendant?
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Nobody knows.
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He's the one that benefited from all the
porch checks.
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He's the one that benefited from the
QuickBooks activity.
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No one else.
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Dan Cattenaugh didn't benefit from it.
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Mike McStay didn't benefit from it.
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None of those checks were written out to
them.
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He does everything he can to cover the
tracks at QuickBooks.
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Is there any reasonable interpretation
that the person that called QuickBooks
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from the defendant's cell phone was not
the defendant?
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Absolutely not.
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He's in the high
desert on February 6th,
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pinging off a tower
overlooking the grave sites.
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What is the reasonable inference from that
evidence?
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Maybe he's checking on the condition of
the bodies he buried there.
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Maybe he's actually burying them on that
day.
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Possible.
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It's a reasonable inference.
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Is there a conclusive proof?
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No.
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But in that circumstance, when you put it
together with all of the rest,
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what's the explanation?
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It all comes back to the defendant.
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Nobody wants this family to go without
justice.
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They don't want that.
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Nobody would want that after seeing what
happened.
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No.
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So that's a lot of pressure on a jury.
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This was going to be about fighting the
temptation to convict Chase without evidence.
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That's what a lot of this case was going
to be.
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Remember, we don't
have to prove when this
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occurred, how this occurred,
or where this occurred.
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Just that the defendant did.
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We don't have to prove where.
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We don't have to prove how.
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We don't have to prove when.
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Okay, then what do you have to prove?
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We just have to prove he's a bad guy.
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And he's a gambler.
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We had to emphasize that jury
so they understood that those
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weren't the legal requirements
of what we had to prove.
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I remember feeling like he promised us we
were going to find out more at the trial.
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But I don't feel like they ever answered
those questions satisfactorily for me
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anyways of where it was done and how the
car got to the border and the whole nine.
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So those are unanswered questions for me.
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What you have, ladies and gentlemen,
is overwhelmingly convincing.
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A set of circumstantial evidence that no
matter which way you look at it,
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no matter which way you
turn the wheel, it always
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comes back to that center
point being the defendant.
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It always comes back to
the man with the means, the
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motive, and the opportunity
to commit that murder.
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The defense will present its closing
arguments tomorrow.
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And then, of course, at
the very latest, this case will
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be handed to the jury by
at least Thursday morning.
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If convicted, Merritt faces the death
penalty.
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I can tell you, from our
perspective, it's a huge responsibility
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knowing you're representing
somebody who's innocent.
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And if you mess things up or you screw
things up or you don't do your job,
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that your client can be killed by the
government.
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I cannot speculate as to the nature of Raj
and Jim's relationship as the trial went
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along because I'm not privy to their
conversations, their thoughts, their motives.
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However, it did seem like they weren't on
the same page come the end of trial.
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The prosecution's theory of the killing is
interesting.
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The theory is, killed in the house,
but they don't have evidence.
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So, the family was not killed on the
floor.
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None of the evidence showed that.
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What the evidence does show is they
survived to the morning fifth.
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They were being kidnapped by multiple
people.
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How do you control the naked?
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You need at least three.
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At least.
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If Summer and the kids are still alive,
and they're brought in one vehicle,
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and you need somebody driving this thing,
you need somebody controlling.
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That's creepy.
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In my closing, I was doing what was
expected of the prosecution, which is lay
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down a concrete theory of how this crime
occurred.
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The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, law
enforcement didn't care about Dan Kavanaugh.
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Dan Kavanaugh took in $26,000 for the
online account.
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Milleen's over here, okay, and he's giving
his, okay.
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McGee's over here
giving his, and I'm trying to
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figure out which one is
the blind leading the blind.
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And I think they both showed their
ignorance at that point.
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I'm talking about Dan Kavanaugh's PayPal
records.
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Do you realize that law
enforcement, Sergeant Smith sitting
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here, and his team never even
requested his PayPal record?
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So they didn't know that Dan
Kavanaugh had diverted payments
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from the production business
online to his own account.
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Can't believe that if
they're talking about greed
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and fraud, how they don't
look into Dan Kavanaugh.
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Can you imagine sitting
there as a prosecutor
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thinking, we didn't
really follow up on that.
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We didn't do anything to check that out.
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And here we are in trial already, and
we already put all our eggs in this basket.
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What do we do?
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That would be a very uncomfortable feeling
for a prosecutor.
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For the two-week period after
Joseph disappeared, Mr. Kavanaugh
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helped himself to about
$13,000 out of Joseph's PayPal.
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Why would he do that?
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Did Mr. Kavanaugh think that he wasn't
coming back?
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They put a bolt on Mr. Merritt's head.
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And they were done.
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I was really surprised when I saw their
closings.
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I was really surprised
that they clearly weren't in
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agreement on any theory
of how the murder occurred.
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So it was very clear that
Mr. Moline was, Dan did this, and Mr.
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McGee was, we don't
know who did this.
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It had to be more than one person.
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My defense attorneys were not on board
with each other.
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They did argue different
things, different theories of a
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00:22:42,428 --> 00:22:47,070
lot of different things
throughout their closing arguments.
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And they just had no rhyme or reason,
really, about their closing arguments.
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And they were lost.
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They were completely lost.
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Every time my defense attorneys started
asserting Dan Kavanaugh, Dan Kavanaugh,
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Dan Kavanaugh, the prosecution were
probably leaving the courtroom
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high-finding and looking at
themselves and each other and
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00:23:06,844 --> 00:23:10,670
saying, those idiots were burying
Mr. Merritt all by themselves.
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They kept asserting things that they just
simply could not prove.
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There were a lot of things
that were done to try to prevent
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the jury from looking at
what the actual evidence is.
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They didn't have the law or the facts on
their side, and it became apparent at the
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end that it was going to
be this free-for-all on let's
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just throw it out there and,
you know, accuse anybody.
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So it was important to let the jury know,
like, this is fiction.
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This isn't evidence.
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Here's your evidence.
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
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This is the case of People v.
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Charles Merritt.
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00:24:05,610 --> 00:24:07,210
This is not the People v.
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Dan Kavanaugh.
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00:24:09,630 --> 00:24:13,250
I can't cover all of the
misrepresentations that were made to you
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00:24:13,251 --> 00:24:15,690
yesterday because we'd be here all day
again.
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00:24:15,691 --> 00:24:19,210
But I do want to cover some of the ones
that are a little bit more important.
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00:24:19,890 --> 00:24:21,630
Elephant in the room, Dan Kavanaugh.
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00:24:21,810 --> 00:24:23,170
Dan Kavanaugh is the killer.
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00:24:24,130 --> 00:24:25,590
That's what you're being told,
right?
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00:24:25,730 --> 00:24:26,890
That's what you're being fed.
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00:24:27,130 --> 00:24:28,790
What evidence do you have of that?
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00:24:29,690 --> 00:24:30,690
Absolutely none.
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00:24:31,070 --> 00:24:33,430
Dan Kavanaugh took money from the business
after.
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00:24:35,190 --> 00:24:35,670
Absolutely.
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00:24:36,070 --> 00:24:37,450
There's no question about that.
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00:24:38,630 --> 00:24:41,790
Dan Kavanaugh used some of that money to
keep the business running.
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00:24:41,791 --> 00:24:46,426
Now, whether or not that
was right or wrong, he wasn't
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00:24:46,427 --> 00:24:49,230
taking money before the
McStay family disappeared.
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00:24:50,100 --> 00:24:51,100
He was.
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00:24:51,530 --> 00:24:52,970
He was the one taking the money.
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00:24:53,570 --> 00:24:55,510
He was the one forging the checks.
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00:24:56,130 --> 00:24:57,370
Look at the records.
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00:24:57,371 --> 00:25:00,250
The defendant's phone
leads off of a tower in the
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area of the graves on
February 6th during heavy rains.
398
00:25:04,410 --> 00:25:07,190
It's off February 8th for two periods of
time.
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In the morning and at night.
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00:25:10,330 --> 00:25:13,290
And that's the day the car is taken to the
border.
401
00:25:14,050 --> 00:25:16,220
The defendant's DNA
was on the steering wheel
402
00:25:16,221 --> 00:25:18,030
of the car because he
drove it to the border.
403
00:25:18,031 --> 00:25:19,750
That's how it got there.
404
00:25:20,030 --> 00:25:21,730
There's a simple explanation.
405
00:25:22,810 --> 00:25:27,250
And the defendant's DNA wasn't on the
items in the grave because none of those
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00:25:27,251 --> 00:25:30,310
items would have retained reliable DNA
evidence.
407
00:25:31,510 --> 00:25:35,410
We had a family of four that went missing.
408
00:25:39,710 --> 00:25:41,890
For three years, nine months, and seven
days.
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00:25:44,030 --> 00:25:50,350
They sat out in two shallow graves waiting
for somebody to come along.
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00:25:51,070 --> 00:25:53,370
And find some remnant of them.
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00:25:54,370 --> 00:25:57,050
So that they could tell you what happened.
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00:25:57,930 --> 00:26:00,130
They can't come in here and testify.
413
00:26:02,050 --> 00:26:05,670
But they've given you as much information
as they can.
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00:26:07,430 --> 00:26:09,710
And it's in the Quick Book records.
415
00:26:10,070 --> 00:26:11,610
It's in the cell phone records.
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00:26:11,930 --> 00:26:13,450
It's in the graves with them.
417
00:26:14,870 --> 00:26:20,190
Ladies and gentlemen, justice in this case
means going back into that jury room.
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00:26:20,670 --> 00:26:22,010
Looking at the facts.
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00:26:22,550 --> 00:26:23,750
Looking at the law.
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00:26:24,070 --> 00:26:26,690
And returning verdicts of guilty.
421
00:26:30,620 --> 00:26:34,103
We felt if they followed
the law, there's no
422
00:26:34,104 --> 00:26:36,200
way that all 12 of them
can come back guilty.
423
00:26:36,340 --> 00:26:37,340
It just can't happen.
424
00:26:37,380 --> 00:26:38,840
We laid it all on the table.
425
00:26:39,060 --> 00:26:40,320
We had left nothing.
426
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:42,420
No stone unturned.
427
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:43,800
No sweat.
428
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:45,080
Drops missed.
429
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:47,180
I mean, we laid it all out there.
430
00:26:47,460 --> 00:26:49,080
I think we were very confident.
431
00:26:49,081 --> 00:26:53,540
But of course, being practical
and intelligent lawyers,
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00:26:53,541 --> 00:26:59,080
you'd still have that little
nervousness that, is it enough?
433
00:26:59,700 --> 00:27:03,880
The jury in this case can consider
first-degree murder, second-degree murder,
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00:27:04,020 --> 00:27:05,240
or not guilty.
435
00:27:05,420 --> 00:27:06,860
Those are the charges on the table.
436
00:27:13,740 --> 00:27:18,360
A juror says he or she can only deliberate
for three hours a day.
437
00:27:18,620 --> 00:27:20,913
The judge is going
to let this case go into
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00:27:20,914 --> 00:27:23,160
deliberations in half
days from here on out.
439
00:27:23,161 --> 00:27:24,201
What's going on with that?
440
00:27:24,340 --> 00:27:27,460
That's going to be very complex in terms
of how they decide this case.
441
00:27:27,900 --> 00:27:29,821
It's going to have stopping
and starting, because they're
442
00:27:29,822 --> 00:27:32,020
not allowed to deliberate
when they're not all present.
443
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:33,892
So we're going to see
this drag out for a long
444
00:27:33,992 --> 00:27:36,420
period of time, half a
day here, half a day there.
445
00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:52,320
Waiting for a verdict is, for a lawyer,
very difficult for the, for the,
446
00:27:52,380 --> 00:27:56,080
for the sole reason that we don't have any
control.
447
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:02,360
Waiting is the worst, and you never know
how long a jury is going to take.
448
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,280
Another day, another week, another,
you know, whatever.
449
00:28:11,700 --> 00:28:15,180
A lot of attorneys stress over,
what can I have done different?
450
00:28:15,340 --> 00:28:16,140
What are they going to say?
451
00:28:16,260 --> 00:28:17,500
What's the verdict going to be?
452
00:28:17,980 --> 00:28:19,580
And they will not sleep.
453
00:28:19,820 --> 00:28:20,640
They will panic.
454
00:28:20,820 --> 00:28:21,980
They will go through notes.
455
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:23,600
They will freak themselves out.
456
00:28:24,360 --> 00:28:28,720
And for some, I don't know how I was able
to do it, I'm able to shut it off.
457
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,800
And I just go, there's nothing I can do
now.
458
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:36,936
It's been many, many
months of ongoing trial,
459
00:28:36,937 --> 00:28:39,000
lots of breaks for
different valid reasons.
460
00:28:39,140 --> 00:28:43,940
The result of that is the jury has to have
a lot of information and evidence before
461
00:28:43,941 --> 00:28:47,700
them over a long period of time that they
actually have to recall and sift through,
462
00:28:47,820 --> 00:28:49,780
which is going to make their job more
challenging.
463
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,140
How is your dad doing right now?
464
00:28:59,060 --> 00:29:02,200
I feel like my dad is kind of spiraling
right now.
465
00:29:04,380 --> 00:29:08,518
Every time I've talked to
him since the jury started
466
00:29:08,519 --> 00:29:11,440
deliberations, he's looking
at worst case scenario.
467
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:20,001
So he's trying to prepare for being
convicted and what he's going to have to do.
468
00:29:20,900 --> 00:29:22,720
And, like, he's scared.
469
00:29:22,721 --> 00:29:23,860
I know he's scared.
470
00:29:32,430 --> 00:29:35,460
That was probably one of the worst times,
waiting for the damn thing.
471
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,360
We were notified that there was a verdict
on Friday afternoon.
472
00:29:48,100 --> 00:29:49,660
But the judge did not take it.
473
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,440
He asked us to come in on Monday.
474
00:29:53,100 --> 00:29:54,700
Which really kind of upset us.
475
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:56,596
You don't want a juror to change your
mind.
476
00:29:56,620 --> 00:29:58,020
You don't want a juror to fall out.
477
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,640
It was almost like
you're kind of living in
478
00:30:03,641 --> 00:30:06,981
this parallel universe
for a couple of days.
479
00:30:08,060 --> 00:30:12,020
It's very difficult to kind of go through
that, especially in a case like this.
480
00:30:12,460 --> 00:30:15,540
You know, we're hanging on every second.
481
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,947
When I asked family members
from the McStay family how they
482
00:30:32,948 --> 00:30:35,680
were doing this morning,
they said they are simply ready.
483
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,200
The verdict is expected to come down at 10
o'clock.
484
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If convicted, on all counts, Charles Chase
Merritt could be facing the death penalty.
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From San Bernardino, Jamie Chambers,
Fox 5 News.
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Good morning.
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The record's left.
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We are back in session.
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Parties and counsel are present.
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As I'm sure you all know, the jury
informed us Friday that you have a verdict.
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You know, it's one of those things like,
as good as you feel walking out of a
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courtroom, you never know what a jury's
gonna do.
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Ever.
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As good as we thought we presented the
evidence, and as well as we thought we
495
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argued it, you just don't know what a
jury's gonna do.
496
00:31:28,050 --> 00:31:31,229
I know that no matter
what the verdict is, it's
497
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going to have an emotional
impact on everybody.
498
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It was a weird feeling, in the sense that,
you know, this has all now come to a head,
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with all the time, and all the hours,
and all the battles, and shenanigans,
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and the, you know, everything.
501
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It's, all of that stuff is all now, we're
gonna find out what, what's going on.
502
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And you have all the verdict forms in the
envelope?
503
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Okay, if you were handling those,
then they left.
504
00:32:00,090 --> 00:32:02,510
That's when I started getting very,
very scared.
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What I was praying for was the extent of
my hope, is that there would be just one
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person that could see through the
prosecution.
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Who, the jury, in the above entitled action,
find the defendant, Charles Ray Merritt.
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Who, the jury, in the above entitled action,
find the defendant, Charles Ray Merritt.
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Guilty of the offense of murder,
in the first degree, of Joseph McStay.
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Guilty of the offense of Joseph McStay Jr.
Guilty of the offense of murder,
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in the first degree, of Joseph McStay Jr.
I was, I was pretty much, um, by then.
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My attorneys took it so far, and never got
over the hump.
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My attorneys gave them some of the
evidence, and the prosecution gave them a
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hell of a lot of false evidence.
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And defense counsel
mitigated little, little to none
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of the false evidence that
the prosecution presented.
517
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I am curious at the prosecutors,
of course.
518
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I am, uh, sounds kind of weird,
but you can understand, or I guess,
519
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I guess you can make excuses for a
prosecutor lying and presenting false
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evidence and all of this stuff,
because he simply wants to win.
521
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Right?
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You can come up with excuses for it,
at least.
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Are they good ones?
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Are they, are they honorable ones?
525
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Of course not.
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But at least you can come
up with some kind of reasoning
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behind a prosecutor doing
the things that they did.
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00:34:30,140 --> 00:34:32,599
Now that Charles Merritt
has been found guilty, the
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next step of this trial moves
on to the penalty phase.
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That is where we'll discover whether or
not Merritt will receive the death penalty.
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Because there are special conditions to
this case, and because he is charged with
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four counts of premeditated first-degree
murder, he certainly would qualify.
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Good afternoon.
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Obviously today is a sad day for us.
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Their closing argument is, is amazing.
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Everything, literally almost everything
they said was a lie.
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Almost every single thing they said was a
lie.
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Some of you who followed the trial saw
that one of the DAs in this case withheld
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its culpatory evidence in a death penalty
case.
540
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It's unheard of.
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What kind of prosecutor would,
would hold evidence that would help a
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person, would help the accused show that
he was innocent?
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And it is a crime for a prosecutor to do
that.
544
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And that prosecutor, in my opinion,
should be in jail.
545
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And how he's not, and
how he's been able to
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get away with it all
this time, I have no idea.
547
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We believe that there has been a
miscarriage of justice.
548
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I believe my client is innocent.
549
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Instead of hearing all
the legal mumbo jumbo, I
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would like you to hear
from his daughter Taylor.
551
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I don't think any of us
are surprised about what
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happened today based on
how the rest of the trial went.
553
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The evidence didn't get
out there that we needed
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to get out and the
full story wasn't told.
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And, you know, we're ready to keep
fighting and he's ready to keep trying to
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prove his innocence regardless of how long
that takes.
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So, we're gonna stay behind him every step
of the way.
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An investigation needs to
be launched into how this, uh,
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this, uh, case was investigated
and how it was prosecuted.
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I think that's really necessary because,
uh, the outcome of this was, uh,
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just totally unbelievable.
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We're devastated, shell-shocked,
everything.
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Words can't describe how disappointed we
are.
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We just spent whatever time it was with
Chase and he's equally devastated.
565
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You know, we tried to rationalize what the
jury did and we just can't.
566
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So, what's the jury's role in all this
then?
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They recommend death or life without rule.
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And the judge's sentence is based on that
recommendation?
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I
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am so very sorry that Joseph's,
Summers, and Joseph Jr.
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's family, and Gianni's families
have had to bear this horrific tragedy.
572
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No mother or dad should have to bear this.
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The pain of losing their son or daughter.
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Part of me wanting to just stay silent.
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At least for a while.
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At least for a while.
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The thing that is bringing you this solace
is ending my life.
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Ending, ending my life for a crime that I
did not commit.
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Your Honor, there are no second acts.
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Do what is right.
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Give me the hearing I deserve.
582
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I can show you where this trial has
failed.
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Allow me to show the family just what
these prosecutors have done.
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What's happened here is wrong.
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It's taking me from my family.
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A family that does not deserve this.
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I may deserve a lot of things.
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I don't deserve this.
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I did not do this.
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And as God is my witness, I will be back
here.
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And I will prove to everyone that that is
true.
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Thank you, Mr. Murray.
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He gave a statement of deniability,
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which, again, it's pathological.
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Oh, I'm sorry you guys have all that pain,
but I didn't do it.
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It's... it's...
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It's not surprising coming from him.
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Because I think it's... He is definitely
somebody who believes his own lies.
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So, that now brings us to the issue of
sentencing.
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For the offense of the first-degree murder
of Joseph, Mr. Merritt, Joseph,
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Mr. Merritt, for the first-degree murder
of someone, Mr. Merritt, to be sentenced
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to life in prison without the possibility
of parole.
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For the first-degree murder of someone,
Mr.
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Merritt, let the defendant, Charles
Merritt, be sentenced to death,
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let the penalty be
carried out to San Quentin
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State Prison in a manner
then prescribed by law.
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The man convicted of killing a San Diego
County family and burying their bodies in
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the desert has been sentenced to death for
his crimes.
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You know, I don't know
if he ever actually will be
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put to death or if he'll
just die in prison, but I...
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I don't think that anybody that I've
talked to in the family necessarily wants
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to watch him die or, you know,
wants to see that end happen, but it is
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good to know that he'll never be on the
street to hurt anyone else again.
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Call me vengeful, whatever you want,
I don't care.
615
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Yeah, I'll do the injection.
616
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You know, I'll pull the switch.
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He means nothing to me.
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He's garbage in my mind.
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If I pull the switch
or inject him with a
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needle, and he's gone,
it'd be good riddance.
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The world is a little safer today.
622
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Would it take any of your pain away?
623
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Probably not.
624
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That family did not get justice.
625
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:45,520
That still haunts you?
626
00:42:48,750 --> 00:42:50,910
It haunted me during the trial.
627
00:42:53,390 --> 00:42:55,870
I was representing Chase Merritt.
628
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I didn't think he did it.
629
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But I really wanted answers for them.
630
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I couldn't give it to him.
631
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Hey, it was pretty devastating.
632
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When it happened, it knocked me for a
loop.
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I'm just seriously focused.
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And from hell or high water, I'm going to
fix this.
635
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Because, you know, obviously they got it
wrong.
636
00:43:29,821 --> 00:43:31,440
I didn't do it.
637
00:43:31,700 --> 00:43:36,880
Do I think Dan Kavanaugh personally killed
the family?
638
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I don't know.
639
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:40,320
Do I think he had something to do with it?
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Absolutely.
641
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There's no question in my mind.
642
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Hi.
643
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How's it going?
644
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Can you tell me who you are?
645
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I'm Daniel Kavanaugh.
646
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I'm Daniel Kavanaugh.
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