Jim Morrell

Anthony's Aunt Donna would so like to believe that.

As the state prepares to go to trial, its star witness, Jim Morrell, is ready to face his former friends in court.

You're not nervous?

And Lally's lawyer says his client, the first up, is terrified.

What are the stakes here?

March 3rd, 2006, and Tom Lally has changed dramatically in the more than four years since Marina Calabro died.

He's the first of the three defendants to stand trial for her murder.

His uncle has been by his side throughout.

That's what he said.

But in prosecutor Susan Corcoran's eyes... This defendant strikes her on the head with the frying pan.

Tom Lally is a cold-blooded murderer, period.

Whacking her as she was screaming for her life.

She makes sure the jury knows that this slight young man before them bears little resemblance to the swaggering tough he once was.

He was 220 pounds and was bald.

Lally describes his nephew as a caring boy, close to his mother, saddled with learning disabilities and struggling with a mild case of Tourette's syndrome.

He thinks that in the end, the state can't prove its case.

And for sure, the state has problems.

Thank you, Your Honor.

As defense attorney Robert Griffin points out, not only is there the medical examiner's initial ruling... You had ruled that the cause of death was an accident, correct?

But the DNA supposedly found on Marina's body turned out to be one big embarrassment for the state.