Keith Morrison

There was no charge.

Right, exactly.

However, often we'll follow cases, and you know that somebody has behaved badly on a number of occasions, and those situations cannot be brought up in a trial.

prosecution can do is focus on the specific charge that this person is facing, and the details only concerning that particular act, the illegal act that that person is on trial for.

But there's a rule in Texas that you can use past bad acts in the prosecution of a case, and that is what made all the difference in this case about Sarah.

because the prosecutor was able to bring up all of these things in her past, all these relationships that had become violent.

And the combination of all of those things made it apparent to anybody who was sitting in that courtroom that this woman would be found guilty.

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Well, I suspect that was the case.

You know, we can't know what really was in her mind.

Among the cases in her past, I suppose the one regarding Joe was easier potentially to solve, but Detective Rock certainly had to drill down on it and was able to find out that in the many hours before Joe's death,

While he was having a diabetic crisis and his alarm was going off every five minutes to tell Sarah that her husband was in diabetic shock, she claimed that she was asleep on the couch because she had just recently had surgery.

And therefore, she just didn't wake up when the alarm went off.