Emily Simpson

Right.

So not only does the defense say that there's gaps in this investigation and the forensics, they also questioned the FBI's lead case agent about whether DNA was ever collected from injuries on Kepner's neck.

And the defense also highlighted that the medical examiner made no determination about whether the person who sexually assaulted Kepner was the same person who killed her.

So, yeah, I knew they were going to.

That's what their defense is going to be.

Like it was consensual and someone else could have murdered her.

But the surveillance video is going to show that she goes in the room.

She never leaves the room.

Because the crime occurred on the cruise ship with multiple people nearby, the defense is expected to argue that the prosecution can't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Hudson was the one who strangled her.

I don't know how they're going to get past that.

I don't know how they're going to try to plant reasonable doubt that someone else was able to enter that room at some point.

So the prosecution really honed in on the fact that they were alone together in the cabin for three hours, that her underwear was found inside of her, that the choke hold lasted three to five minutes and that he took her cell phone and threw it away.

And that the DNA from the semen matches Timothy Hudson.

And also that he's the type of person who snaps and does something like that.

So that's why they were arguing that he needs to be detained and not be hanging out at home with family.

Um,

The defense argues that he is not a flight risk, that he doesn't have a car and he doesn't have a license, that he's been compliant so far.

He's attended all hearings, that he has a GPS monitor on and that basically that the uncle's, you know,

over him and, you know, has been taking care of him and has made sure that he's been compliant and has gotten to all these hearings and he hasn't tried to flee.

he's, I believe, Tampa area.