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[Music] this is WH BCAM Canton Newstalk 1480 WH BC the trial begins today for a local
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woman accused of killing her husband on New Year's Eve it happened so fast and he had put his hand over my my nose in
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my mouth and I couldn't breathe and he shoving he's like go to the bedroom it's got bedroom and I'm going I'm like
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okay okay okay I'm going I'm going my name is Scott Roeder I'm an evidence specialist I received a
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phone call the domestic homicide case a woman who's being accused of murder and I'm like I'm gonna call the cops he
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grabbed me and he shook me like this I'll give you a reason to call the cops you dumb [ __ ] I'll give you a reason he
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left the room and he went down the hallway screaming it over and over again everybody was really interested in this
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trial because it was this small town with this beautiful young lady he was being accused of this horrible crime I
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walked out into the hallway and I had the gun at my side he said what do you think you're going
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and I said him I'm leaving I'm going and he started to walk towards me he raised
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the gun we've got a dead man and we've got a woman whose life is hanging in the balance
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she's the only eyewitness to this situation and then it was over it was so quick and he was on the ground and and I
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was still holding the weapon out and I was so pulling the trigger some people were immediately making a judgement for
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this is a battered woman my daughter is innocent she's innocent of murder and then some other people
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were immediately making a judgement cold-blooded killer how could she would do that I think
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she's a monster people want to rush to an opinion they want to rush to the story before the
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evidence even has been analyzed I stick to the physical and the forensic evidence what was your purpose in firing
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that first shot to describe I thought my life is endangered I was just trying to
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stop am i defending myself evidence in a criminal court of law it can send a defendant to prison for life
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or prove their innocence beyond a reasonable doubt tonight on a special 48 hours we'll go behind the closed doors
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of legal strategy sessions and cutting-edge evidence analysis to show just what it takes to convince a jury
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that you have the most compelling evidence of all sometimes I'll work for the defense sometimes for the
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prosecution sometimes you're the plaintiff sometimes for the for the defendant I look at the
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totality of the evidence and put it together kind of like a puzzle this isn't about emotion we evaluate the
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evidence we conduct experiments we reduce it to a visual presentation and then we try to demonstrate that for the
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benefit of the jury if you hire me you get what you get and I'm going to do my best to demonstrate what I think the
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truth is ultimately at the end of the day that's what we do