Keith Morrison

And he's got his people to answer to.

Everybody's got a boss.

And so he asked me, he said, what do you think?

That's pressure.

And I said, Michael, whatever you want to do, I'll back you.

I said, but if we don't go ahead with this, it'll never go to trial.

And he looked at me and said, let's go.

March 20th, 2008, dawn cool and clear, the air crisp with the first day of spring.

As Raymond Jennings, jailhouse pallet, was led through passages the son had never seen,

to the ninth floor of L.A.

's high-security criminal justice center.

Famous place, the ninth.

Infamous, maybe.

It's where tabloid defendants like O.J.

Simpson and Phil Spector were tried.

To get to the courthouse, Michelle's parents had to make the same two-hour drive Michelle took on her last day, an emotional journey on the Antelope Valley Freeway, cresting it over 3,000 feet through the Soledad Pass, before descending into the L.A.

Basin.

And then they had to find parking and wait for notoriously crowded courthouse elevators.

And then were met by deputies with metal detectors.

Mike O'Keefe.