Susan Spencer (48 Hours correspondent)

If indeed she intended to kill herself, Burkhart wonders why then she went to the kitchen bathroom.

That bathroom was the perfect spot, the prosecutor says, for Mindy to lie in wait.

Mindy is in here.

Andy comes through this door.

In court, Burkhardt also highlights how Mindy's claim of self-defense makes no sense given how Andy Barani died.

Mindy shot her father in the back.

There's no confrontation, no verbal exchange, no physical exchange prior to the shooting.

But jurors can buy the prosecution scenario and still not convict if they accept the battered child theory, if they really believe Mindy feared for her very life.

She said she was terrified.

Remember this?

Raise your right hand.

After two days, the prosecution wraps up its case with testimony from Mindy's stepmother, Joni, who concurs.

Mindy would go toe-to-toe in arguments with her father.

The defense has a lot of work ahead.

The next day... I'm a nervous wreck right now.

Shirley testifies that during their marriage, Andy was violent and abusive to her and their two sons.

Our normal humiliation and verbal beating place was at the kitchen table.

He would make us sit there for hours, and I mean hours.

But he never turned his wrath on Mindy.

So Shirley left her there.