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I think the most important question sir since we have a limited period of time that I want to make sure we address
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directly and immediately is did you kill your ex-wife Carol Kennedy I did not kill Carol I loved her I not only had
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loved her for half of my life but I admired her as a person as a mother as an artist and I was grateful to her for
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all she'd given me in my life the prosecution has said that your motive was money what's your response to that
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the theory that I killed Carol for money is nonsense for two reasons one is we proved that I was not in any financial
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distress the way the prosecution claimed I had a formidable income it was Rising
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my business prospects were excellent I I had no financial distress at the time but just as importantly Carol and I had
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been separated amicably and cooperatively for over four years and during that entire time I had been
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voluntarily providing her with between seven and 12,000 a month in support I paid all of her bills I didn't even take
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her off our joint account I just I supported her voluntarily but are you saying that uh there was no uh
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contention no battle between the two of you over money for the divorce of course
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of course during a divorce that when it came down to the final settlement that we were arguing back and forth over
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the over the details the terms of the divorce can you take me back to the moment that you were in the court room
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and the verdict was read oh I was stunned I was afraid of course there were never any guarantees it was
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so difficult to imagine that 12 people could look at that evidence both the lack of evidence about me and the
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evidence that pointed elsewhere and come up with a a verdict Beyond A Reasonable
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Doubt standing there before the world being accused of and now convicted of something so horrible that you would
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you'd never even contemplate let alone do and now the world thinks that I did it