Brooke Stanglin

the courtroom will be packed, but it'll just be media.

And people have decided that they're not supporting the defendant anymore.

But this case was interesting because the courtroom was packed.

There was only one or two rows that media could sit in.

And it was equally packed on both sides.

So Nick had a whole slew of family and supporters from the church.

And then it was like a church divided.

Because the other half was sitting with Heidi's family and Rachel sat behind Heidi's family.

And yeah, there was a lot of tears.

There was a lot of...

Well, so Nick hired one of the most

well-known and respected criminal defense attorneys in the Twin Cities.

He was very good at what he does, and there was a chance that if they could convince the jury that there was some doubt, because like you said, it's largely circumstantial.

There is no person that saw what happened.

He admits he had his hand on the trigger, so the DNA is irrelevant.

So there was definitely evidence

concern.

And it wasn't a slam dunk case.

He sobbed.

Yeah, he sobbed.