Jane Laut

To bolster Jane's defense, Bamier called witnesses who also testified that Dave had a dark side and said that looking back, they missed telltale signs.

But the prosecution had witnesses, too, friends and family who never saw signs of violence.

and described Dave Lout as a loving family man and true hometown hero.

He was not the monster that they tried to portray him to be.

He was a good guy.

He cared about other people.

Jane and Dave's son, Michael, now 17, testified on his mother's behalf.

His father had a bad temper, yelled a lot, and called him names sometimes, he said.

But when asked by the prosecutor if his father was ever violent with him or Jane, Michael said he couldn't recall.

One person who did not testify was Dave's sister-in-law, Rebecca Laut.

So jurors never heard the call between her and Detective Young.

He was just very, very verbally abusive.

Because Rebecca now believes Jane was lying, the defense never called her to testify.

The final witness called by Bamier is the executive director of Los Angeles County's Domestic Abuse Center, Gail Pincus.

She thinks like a battered woman.

She acted like a battered woman.

Pincus says that all of Jane's seemingly odd behavior

Like lying to everyone, including the police, is actually a classic symptom of battered woman syndrome.

After two months, the case was about to go to the jury when Jane Laut took one final gamble.

Murder One wasn't the jury's only option.