Israel Keyes

So the California Supreme Court, as I indicated, had unanimously referred this back to the state trial court.

It's an awful heavy lift for a trial court judge in a case like this.

Remember, at the time, you probably have a pretty good memory of it.

I mean, this was the most hated man in America as soon as Amber Frye came on the scene.

That was all she wrote in terms of the kind of pretrial prejudice and animosity and animus towards Scott.

So I hate to be a cynic, but it is a heavy lift.

However, if Strawberry Shortcake does not get it and get immunity and will not testify.

That declaration of hers gets struck and they're left with no evidence to rebut they being the prosecution to rebut the OSC.

And so the presumably the he would get a reversal.

Now, if I if you're asking me to prognosticate, I'm always more confident that that would happen in federal court than state court.

But we'll see.

The prosecution was that he had at least in the opening statements, they had taken the position that he killed her on the 23rd.

that he transported her in the back of a boat up to the bay, that he dumped her on the 24th and then came home and had made conflicting statements, golfing or fishing, blah, blah, blah.

During the trial and by closings, we had, I thought, demonstrably proved that she was alive on the morning of the 24th.

And the way we had done that is they had a forensic computer expert who was on the stand.

And during cross-examination, I got him to admit that

that it appeared that the activity on the morning of the 24th was consistent with the websites that Lacey would go to, that she had logged in and had all the signatures of Lacey.

And we had shown in the hamper that the clothes that were there would have been the dirty clothes that she had worn on the 23rd.

The prosecutor, Rick DeStasso, who's now a judge, by the way, got up in closing rebuttal and said, well, it really doesn't matter.

Yeah, we may have been wrong.