Tom Fallis

Tom Fallis did not kill his wife.

With her first words to the jury, Tom Fallis' defense attorney, Iris Etan, came out fighting for her client.

Ashley Fallis committed suicide on January 1st, 2012.

Ashley Fallis was a beautiful woman, but she had a terrible pain inside.

She had a documented mental illness, was impulsive and self-destructive, and shot herself in the instant of her crisis with her own handgun.

And surprisingly, the defense used the prosecution's own witnesses to make their case that Ashley, already a volatile personality, was drinking heavily the night of the party.

She was intoxicated.

She had just suffered a miscarriage.

She was a pressure cooker.

Ashley's uncle, cross-examined by another defense attorney, admitted there was a history of suicide in the family.

And both your mother and your brother died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head.

However, Ashley's therapist, Dr. Russell Johnson, told the jury that he did not consider her to be a danger to herself.

But when pushed by the defense... But you were prescribing her 50 milligrams.

Dr. Johnson acknowledges that he was unaware of all the medications Ashley was taking, including prescriptions she received from other doctors.

You didn't actually know how many pills of Seroquel and how many milligrams she was taking in December 2011, do you?

Ashley had apparently withheld other crucial information from the doctor, including those alleged suicide notes she had written to Tom.

And you didn't know that she had written a second suicide note dated July 24, 2011, correct?

I wasn't.

She didn't tell you that, did she?

No.