Part 6: The State of Iowa vs Cristhian Bahena Rivera | The Murder of Mollie Tibbetts
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The prosecutor got up and told you that this case is about Molly Tibbetts. And this case is about Molly Tibbetts. You all sat through some very disturbing pictures, some very disturbing testimony. You saw her body. should break for Molly Tibbetts. Your heart should break for her family. Molly Tibbetts deserves justice, her family deserves justice, but so does Christian Fajana Rivera. The defense position is an interesting one because a lot of times you sat through jury selection and it was made a point several times that it's the job of the state to prove Oftentimes, you won't hear any evidence from the defense whatsoever. Oftentimes, the defense will just rely on the inconsistencies or the failure to investigate of the state. But that's not what we will do here.
We won't just rely on the failure of the state to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. We intend to bring you witnesses, and that's because you need to hear what they have to say. Ladies and gentlemen, this case is about a man that immigrated here from Mexico. You will hear about Christian's family circumstances and the reasons that he decided to come into this country. You'll hear about the differences in Mexico, that it's not just, you know, $7.25 an hour versus $12 an hour that someone can make for an income capacity. that the differences between someone that is trying to find employment in Mexico and someone that is trying to find employment in the United States, it's a fraction that a person can make down there.
And although we've brought this case and we've talked about immigration, because we must embrace it. We must embrace that the evidence here shows you that Mr. Bahena-Rivera came to this country. You can agree with it. You cannot agree with it. You can be Republican or you can be Democrat. But the evidence here that you must decide, the evidence here that you must rely on has nothing to do with that side issue. It's the black or the white socks that we talked about in jury selection. And what we ask you to do is when you evaluate the evidence, to set that aside. It's not part of the case. It's not part of the elements. It's just a mere fact. that you must rely on and what you must do is take all those other facts take all those other things whether you agree on them or you don't agree on them and to decide whether or not you believe the evidence can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt now let's talk about this interrogation
You heard Ms. Romero and I quibble between an interview and an interrogation. It wasn't an interview. It wasn't an interrogation. What you will see in this case is there's no dispute on the fact that my client worked 12 hours at a dairy farm, poop and poop, cleaning grounds, and then at the end of his day, he was brought to the Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office. Now, did he voluntarily go? Yes. Was he asked, hey, will you come down? Yes. But something that you must decide and something that you must think about from the evidence is whether this man This defendant here, a man who is a yes man, that's what the evidence will show you. Go clean the stable, yes. Go do this, yes. Go do that, yes. And the evidence will show you, the evidence has shown you, that they came to this dairy farm and everybody cooperated. Everybody just took a buckle swab. Everybody did what they needed to do, consistent with what they did that day. And you hear about this interrogation. And then it went on and on and on.
Unfortunately, you're not going to be able to see the entire thing. It's insanity. But what the evidence has shown you and what the evidence will show you is that there was a systematic confrontation with my client. The first thing... is he was talked to. You know, tell me about your life. Tell me about your family. Tell me about your daughter. Tell me about all of those things that are you, that are Christian Bahena Rivera. And then they started to confront him with the evidence. They confronted him with this videotape. They confronted him with these pictures. And they said, you know, we don't believe you. We don't believe that you weren't there.
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