Amy Robach
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And when she got defiant like that, the defense attorney went to the judge and said, help.
She just said she's not going to do this anymore.
What should we do?
She didn't.
And her frustration and her demeanor was a huge turnoff.
I'm just saying in terms of being a juror and looking at it from that perspective, I'm supposed to believe you.
I'm supposed to believe that you're telling the truth now, but you've only remembered the things that the prosecution say happened and you're not remembering the details that would make me believe that you're actually saying what happened based on your memory, based on actual events.
And so that is when the defense attorney suggested that
that she read through, basically, the talking points of the prosecution to remember or to create the version that she was now testifying to.
And that's a powerful suggestion.
Significantly.
Right before your trial, right when prosecutors offered you a sweetheart deal, then all of a sudden at that point, suddenly the truth was important.
Yeah, he said, when you say we, that means you.
You deserve something, but aren't you admitting to murder?
So you murdered somebody, and yet you deserve something for the murder?
It was brilliant, actually.
And she's like, not because of the murder, but because of what I've been through.
But she's been through what she's been through, admittedly, because she shot someone.
She sounded opportunistic.
And the Netflix information was, for me, very problematic in terms of her credibility.