Alison Triessl

Paul says, let's hold off.

And the prosecution was trying to to argue that Paul was simply greedy.

And, you know, all of this is swirling around.

And here goes one of his streams of income.

But the defense said, well, this conversation is not just in isolation.

And in fact, you, the accountant, told them

you know, we may be able to get a better offer.

There are reasons to keep negotiating because the prosecution had isolated just one sort of email exchange where they said, look, 850 is a really good deal, you should take it.

Well, in previous conversations that the defense raised, they said, wait a minute, you actually said to them, we may be able to do better or something to that effect.

So it's actually more of a building a case as a defense attorney where you're poking holes at everything that the prosecution says is definitive, is definitive.

And as Amy brought up, what are they going to go after?

They're going to go after a, come on, people, this is just way too convenient.

This is just way too convenient.

And jurors, there's something called the CSI effect, right, where they say, we want DNA, we want a case, we want all of this proven to us, handed to us on a silver platter, and a defense says it ain't there.

So in 30 years, I've had exactly zero cases wrapped up in an hour.

You know, some go my way, some don't.

But I can assure you that between the last commercial break and the rolling credits, the case isn't over.

Yeah.

So I think that if they're going to put on a defense here, it's going to be a couple of areas.

One, that Paul's family was not in financial straits.