John Quinones

Bob Jones says that one witness really stood out to him.

Bob wasn't just watching the witness's testimony.

He was also scrutinizing Sean Great.

Great was silent during the witness's testimony.

So what was going on inside Great's head was hard to know until the morning of the eighth day of the trial.

That morning, Great stood, not on the witness stand, but at his lawyer's table.

The jury wasn't in the room.

The judge wanted to ask Great some questions about a very late and surprising change of strategy.

OK.

Was this a decision you came to on your own?

And then you advised your attorneys that at this point you wanted to... Great had requested to change his plea from not guilty to guilty for 15 of the 23 counts against him.

He hoped to now plead guilty to the rape charges as well as a slew of others, including burglary, gross abuse of a corpse, and tampering with evidence.

His lawyers told the court that Great wanted to plead guilty in order to prevent the videos of him sexually assaulting his victims being shown in court.

The videos were of Stacey Stanley and Jane Doe, and by pleading guilty, that evidence would not need to be seen by the jury.

His lawyers claimed that Great was changing his plea out of consideration for Jane Doe and the families of the other victims.

The judge accepted Great's request.

This didn't mean the trial was over.

Great kept his not guilty plea for the murder charges he faced.

The jury would still give their verdict on those crimes.

After his change of plea, there were closing statements for each side.