Au Pair Affair Murder Trial: Frustrated Au Pair Tells Defense “I am not going to do this” As Prosecution Shows Jurors Bloody Crime Scene Photos
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Hey there, folks. It is Thursday, January 15th, and the au pair and the so-called au pair affair double murder trial has wrapped her testimony. And we got a few problems. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes, it got testy.
What happened during Juliana Peres Magalhães' testimony?
Didn't get nasty, but you could tell she got annoyed at times. The defense seems to make the points they want to make, but there are some bigger things at play. But first of all... I was surprised she wasn't up there longer.
I was surprised that they rapped at the end of the day yesterday because, yes, this is key, her testimony, Juliana Perez-Majales, her testimony, key to the prosecution, and it's key to the defense too because they needed to... destroy or at least question her credibility. And they made some headway doing just that yesterday from this observer.
Let me ask this. If the jury doesn't believe this woman, does that mean they would have to vote for an acquittal? What I'm saying is, can you be sitting on that jury and go, I don't believe that woman at all, and still find him guilty?
I don't know. That's the answer because we're listening and we're hearing now what they are presenting. The prosecution is presenting some blood evidence. But yeah, based on his version of events, he would have had blood on him. So it would be a very significant amount of evidence that would be needed to forensically tie him to the actual murder. Because without her credible testimony, this case is very flimsy.
And a reminder, Joseph Ryan and Christine Banfield are dead. These two are dead. Christine Banfield, the husband of Brendan, excuse me, the wife of Brendan Banfield, who is on trial for killing his wife, and Joseph Ryan, a stranger who was lured to the house, who they plan to frame, according to prosecutors, for the death. Christine Banfield and then shoot the man he's the hero and but instead he's on trial for double murder there's what this is where we are now Rose we got a lot of detail this was a very I mean this was a drawn-out it took them a while to come up with the plan and then to execute this very complicated plan but she is the one who was giving us all these details about the plan and
And right now, Robes, there are questions about her motives. We've known that from the beginning, but they're trying to say this is all set up by a woman who wants to save her own ass.
That's right, because for more than a year, she had the same version of events that Brendan did. She claimed that the scene was exactly as they described it, that they don't know what was going on between Christine Banfield and this stranger, but that when he walked in, he was defending his wife by killing the attacker, and the attacker was stabbing his wife. She stood by that story for more than a year. And then right before her trial was about to start, and right as we started hearing, as they were reading it in court yesterday, the letters she was writing to Brendan and his mom, she was getting more desperate. She was getting more depressed. She was becoming suicidal. And then this plea deal lands in her lap.
She basically gets out of jail once she testifies against Brendan.
Boom. Sweet plea deal. Going to get to go back to Brazil, be free, and might even make a little money along the way. We are going to get into why that was also a big deal. We found out about some negotiations she's having to possibly sell her story. So, Rose, I guess as we go through here, there were two key issues. One, you just mentioned the letters. Two... I think, is what I just mentioned about her making a deal. So let's go with these two issues here. Let's start with the letters, first of all. There were a ton of excerpts, and I thought this was effective. He forced her to read her own words tons of times.
Woo! John Carroll is the name of the defense attorney, and we have been describing him as just warm. And fatherly, grandfatherly, as he's asking tough questions. So it's interesting. She was getting so annoyed and so frustrated because his point that he was trying to make, how can you be the person who's creating this narrative of what happened and not remember where you were when it happened?
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:25
2
What happened during Juliana Peres Magalhães' testimony?
0:25–5:14
3
How did the defense challenge Juliana's credibility?
5:14–7:11
4
What key details emerged about the murder scene?
7:11–15:29
5
What were the implications of the plea deal for Juliana?
15:29–19:58
6
How did the defense attorney's questioning impact the jury's perception?
19:58–21:49
Speakers
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