Maurice Chamas

Marsha isn't offended by the lawyer's theories, or at least she doesn't show that on her face.

What I see more is genuine skepticism.

She brings up the things she's heard or seen over the years that painted David Wood as guilty in her mind.

Didn't the girls in El Paso start disappearing right after he got out of prison?

Hadn't they already tested hundreds of pieces of evidence?

And what about one of Desi's girlfriends, who testified that the last time she saw Desi, she was getting into a truck that looked just like the one David Wood drove around?

For a defense case built on the idea that the El Paso Police Department had tunnel vision for David Wood, that they singled him out as a suspect, this would have seemed like the perfect opening for the lawyers.

But it's not something they push back on.

In fact, a lot of the things Marcia brought up in this conversation, the lawyers did have rebuttals for them.

They were sometimes complicated and hard to boil down, but I heard them deploy them before.

So it was interesting to watch them take a more passive approach here.

They mostly just politely listened and only occasionally reached for a correction.

And when they did, it was very, very gingerly.

I totally got where the lawyers were coming from.

I was literally there the day before.

But the particulars of Marsha made the whole thing feel kind of jarring.

She seemed like she was ready to have it out.

And the lawyers seemed too worried about offending her to meet her where she actually was.

In the moment, though, sitting in Marcia's living room, it's hard to say if there was a perfect approach to this.

Marcia said more than once that she was 100% sure they'd gotten the right guy.