Defense Attorney
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 18 Dec
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In January of 2019, shortly before his death, how did he behave?
And was there a suggestion that he go to the hospital?
He had this conversation with his daughter, which was, I mean, it was almost poignant. This was like a farewell to life.
Of course. Who was working on the contracts? my dad.
Yes. There's also conventional wisdom that the jury wants to hear the defendant say, I didn't do it.
I believe Natalie Cochran has thought about the implications of testifying and may have consulted the parents, perhaps friends.
He is unconscious, let's assume. And you want him dead. Well, let him die then.
The action of a killer who wants to get away with murder?
Because he, Michael Cochran, was as involved in this conspiracy as she was. He left jurors with a final thought. If you cannot answer these three questions, what, how, and first of all and foremost, why, then the state fails to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt.
You never know what a jury's going to do, but I felt strong about the defense position.
So these came from me. She's a whack job. She's gross. No nudes so far. No nudes so far, correct? Correct. And you said that to your bosses. Yes, sir.
By the prosecution's account, and perhaps by some other accounts, Natalie Cochran is not a nice person. She defrauded friends, relatives, investors. She was involved in a Ponzi scheme. But ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the fact that she is perhaps a fraud and perhaps a cheat,
and that you wouldn't perhaps want to invite her home for a Sunday dinner, that you wouldn't like her, does not translate into being a murderer. And I will submit to you that the state's motive in this case, as they presented to you, is absolute nonsense. The state of West Virginia is trying to tell you
Natalie Cochran, who has lived with the man who was up to his eyeballs in the policy scheme, somehow detected that he was on her. He was already detecting that she was committing a major fraud, and he was going to run straight to the federal government. But what comes to mind immediately is that bottle of insulin.
And I will submit to you that this is a smokescreen that the state is going to present to you. You will hear medical evidence that Mr. Cochran was not a healthy 38-year-old man. In fact, to the contrary, between the late 2017 At the time of his death in 2019, he was in the hospital four times. For what? For life-threatening conditions. He was a ticking bomb, the evidence will show, health-wise.
What's more, you will hear the evidence that Mr. Cochran fancied himself to be a bodybuilder. He wanted to be the Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mr. Universe. And what did he do in that regard? Mr. Cochrane has imported, let's call it medication, from Mexico, online, from sources that were not approved by any FDA or any legitimate American government sources.
And he was taking medication, steroids, that were not for human consumption. that there was some animal medication taken only by the animals. He was pumping himself with steroids and whatever other medication there was that he could get from less than legitimate sources. And you have to consider that in arriving at your verdict. The insulin that my client had had in her possession,
was the insulin that Mr. and Mrs. Davis gave her repeatedly. Why? Because they had a diabetic son.
On November the 2nd, He went to the hospital with the same or extremely similar conditions that you found him in in February of 2019.
No, he did not.
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