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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

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Speaker 2: Was it one Instagram snap too many? Did insta snaps

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Speaker 2: up a lavish lifestyle with a new trophy wife and

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Speaker 2: a brand new baby lead to murder? The murder of

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Speaker 2: the so called doctor to the stars. I'm Nancy Grace,

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Speaker 2: this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.

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Speaker 3: Doctor Hamed Meershoj is the beloved doctor of his Woodland

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Speaker 3: Hills community in Los Angeles. But tragedy strikes when the

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Speaker 3: good doctor and father of four is mysteriously slain outside

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Speaker 3: his clinic.

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Speaker 2: How did a beloved doctor, a family man, the father

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Speaker 2: of a brand new baby girl end up dead and the.

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Speaker 1: Parking lot of his own medical clinic.

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Speaker 4: Listen on August twenty third, twenty twenty four, about five

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Speaker 4: thirty pm, as doctor Harmid mischau Je left his family

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Speaker 4: medical clinic for the night and walked to his vehicle

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Speaker 4: in the parking lot, a masked man emerged from hiding

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Speaker 4: around the corner of the clinic and ran toward him

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Speaker 4: from a close distance. The suspect fired at doctor merschau

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Speaker 4: Je in an ambush style attack, and then immediately fled

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Speaker 4: the scene.

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Speaker 2: A beloved family practiced doctorate dead in the parking lot

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Speaker 2: of his own clinic.

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Speaker 1: Now, let's think this thing through to Israel.

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Speaker 2: Salth Rodriguez joining us, a senior news reporter at us

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Speaker 2: son Israel, thank you for being with us.

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Speaker 1: Let me understand, this is rapid fire. This is right?

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Speaker 2: As he leaves his office, correct his clinic, yes, no, yes, correct,

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Speaker 2: walking to his car right yes correct. Masked man a

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Speaker 2: masked man correct correct, No robbery, no sex attack correct correct,

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Speaker 2: And the math man flees apparently to a waiting car,

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Speaker 2: joining me as a very special guest. The brother of

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Speaker 2: the so called doctor to the stars joining us as

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Speaker 2: Ali Reisa show J doctor, thank you for being with us.

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Speaker 1: Doctor, show J.

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Speaker 2: When did you learn that your brother, the so called

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Speaker 2: doctor to the stars had been killed? And when you

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Speaker 2: or did you think he died of natural causes of

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Speaker 2: someone in some way?

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Speaker 5: Well, my wife and I we were driving going to

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Speaker 5: my parents' house, meeting my brother and celebrating murder progress

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Speaker 5: of my dad and his treatment for his pancreatic cancer.

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Speaker 5: On our way, a common friend called us, and he

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Speaker 5: and ask for his his whereabout So I did several times,

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Speaker 5: did an answer. He called me back. He said you

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Speaker 5: And I said why and said you should, you must go.

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Speaker 5: We heard shooting and I said, we're shooting. That's unusual.

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Speaker 5: So that basically got me worried. So I drove towards

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Speaker 5: that intersection where his clinic was, I had to jump

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Speaker 5: and the only thing I could see was his boots

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Speaker 5: asking me was he suicidal? Did he kill himself? And

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Speaker 5: I told him absolutely not. And I just also mentioned

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Speaker 5: for his for his condition and he was supposed to

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Speaker 5: deliver it to house today tonight. And at that time

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Speaker 5: that adrenaline was pumped in, so I was very much

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Speaker 5: just shocked and very angry, very upset, and I'm generally

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Speaker 5: and just trying to figure things out, which in that situations,

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Speaker 2: You know, doctor you mentioned that they asked you would

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Speaker 2: he have committed suicide? And I want to follow up

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Speaker 2: in a moment with doctor Eric Eason regarding the trajectory

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Speaker 1: But you immediately said, no way.

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Speaker 2: This guy, your brother had everything to live for. He

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Speaker 2: I mean, he was really and the happiest time of

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Speaker 5: Right, Absolutely, he was never happier. He looked even way

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Speaker 5: better than before he transformed into the way younger guy.

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Speaker 5: I would say, probably even fifteen twenty years younger than

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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, check out before and after.

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Speaker 2: Tell me, doctor Ali Reisa mershow Jay, what led your brother,

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Speaker 2: who's a very handsome man, what led him to have

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm not aware that he did any extensive plastic

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Speaker 1: It looks great. What are you dared, ola Resa, he

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Speaker 1: looks amazing again. Joining me in all.

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Speaker 2: Star panel to make sense of what we know right now.

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Speaker 2: But to doctor Eric Eason, following up on what doctor

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Speaker 2: Meir show Jate told us, this is the victim's brother.

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Speaker 2: Doctor Easton board certified forensic pathologist consultant has performed so

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Speaker 2: many autopsies, thousands of autopsies, Doctor Ethan, thank you for

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Speaker 2: being with us. Of course, I understand why police are

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Speaker 2: saying on the same could he have committed suicide? But

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Speaker 2: clearly the trajectory of the bullets, in other words, their

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Speaker 6: Trajectory does help. Trajectories a piece of the puzzle when

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Speaker 6: determining whether a gunshot wound is a suicidal or homicidal.

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Speaker 6: But you also have location of the entrance wound. That's

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Speaker 6: very helpful. So suicides tend to be intraoral or to

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Speaker 6: then also factor in circumstances and also witnesses. Witnesses said

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Speaker 6: somebody came up with a mask on and shot him,

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Speaker 6: and then the circumstances. I don't believe a gun was

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know how eyewitnesses are always attacted trial by

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Speaker 2: people like Troy Slayton joining us right now, high profile

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Speaker 2: LA criminal defense attorney in this jurisdiction.

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Speaker 1: Troy, there's no question this was a hit.

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Speaker 2: Now, the circumstances surrounding the hit, we're not sure of

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Speaker 2: comes out of his office same time every day, Troy,

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Speaker 2: you and I've talked about this a million times, comes

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Speaker 1: Time as he does every day, to head to his car.

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Speaker 2: At that exact, that precise moment, someone runs around the

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Speaker 2: corner wearing a mask, shoots. No sex attack, no robbery,

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Speaker 1: It's a hit.

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Speaker 7: All the circumstances, including some witness accounts that said that

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Speaker 7: location for an hour before waiting for the doctor to

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Speaker 2: Of course, one of the first places you look is

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Speaker 2: people he works with every day. You know, familiarity breeds contempt.

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Speaker 2: Who could possibly be angry at him within his own

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Speaker 3: Twenty third is a regular day in the office for

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Speaker 3: Nothing is out of the ordinary, but the unsolved baseball

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Speaker 8: They were all screaming in the office when it happened,

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Speaker 8: because they heard his shots. But you could see what's

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Speaker 8: going on and everything Ductor screamed in there. It was horrifying.

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Speaker 2: Now, you were just hearing from our friends at Fox

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Speaker 2: eleven that was a former patient of the doctor. So

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Speaker 2: everything was normal in the office when this went down, screaming,

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Speaker 2: everyone jumping on the floor. They hear gunshots, and of course,

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Speaker 2: immediately Israel saws Rodriguez joining us A senior news reporter

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Speaker 2: us Son. Immediately police arrive and start talking to everyone

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Speaker 2: at the scene.

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Speaker 1: And everyone was accounted for in that office.

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Speaker 2: In other words, it was not a scenario where, oh,

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Speaker 1: Nothing like that.

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Speaker 2: Everybody was there, Everybody was shaken up, and they very

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Speaker 1: Isn't that right, Israel?

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Speaker 9: Correct?

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Speaker 6: Nancy.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about what we learned at the scene,

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Speaker 2: but first to Karen Start joining me, renowned psychologist, TV

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Speaker 2: radio trauma expert at Karenstart dot com.

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Speaker 1: That's Karen with the CEA. Karen. I was thinking about.

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Speaker 2: The details, the unusual details that stuck out in the

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Speaker 2: mind of our murder victim's brother. They grow up together,

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Speaker 2: they both go to medical school, they start their practices,

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Speaker 1: Then he gets a call.

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Speaker 2: Everyone's supposed to be getting together to celebrate, and the

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Speaker 2: stuck out in his mind? The crime scene tape, seeing

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Speaker 2: his brother's boot, seeing his brother's leg, and blue jeans

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Speaker 1: What does that mean? Karen Stark?

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Speaker 10: Well, when you get that kind of sudden and just

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Speaker 10: there and you're in sudden shock, Nancy, what you will

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Speaker 10: notice are things that just immediately pop into your mind.

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Speaker 10: But there you're not really absorbing what you're seeing. So

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Speaker 10: Not able to digest what's happening to him?

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Speaker 1: Right then?

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Speaker 3: Doctor Hamed Meershoj is the beloved doctor of his Woodland

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Speaker 3: Hills community in Los Angeles, But tragedy strikes when the

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Speaker 2: We keep saying doctor to the stars, and he was

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Speaker 2: exactly that before he was gunned down outside his own

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Speaker 1: Listen to one of his patients that was.

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Speaker 9: Going through a divorce, and he even said to me,

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Speaker 9: he said, hey, why don't we get together, have lunch

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Speaker 9: and talk. You're going through a divorce. I'm going through

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Speaker 9: a divorce. Let's just sit down and chat. That's how

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Speaker 9: great of a person he was. He was just really caring.

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Speaker 9: And also, hey, he's a doctor. He hurts too.

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Speaker 3: In the years following this divorce, doctor Ahmed mierso j

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Speaker 3: finds love again and this time everything is wonderful. He

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Speaker 3: and her name Avena straight out.

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Speaker 2: To the brother joining us, Doctor Ali Reisa misho Ja,

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Speaker 2: tell me about the second wife, How did that happen?

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Speaker 1: Family with the baby at the time of the murder.

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Speaker 11: She was in Turkey visiting family.

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Speaker 2: what's concerning is an incident that occurred a few months before.

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Speaker 2: Tell me about the attack with a baseball bat, Israel.

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Speaker 11: A worker at doctor Hamid Major Jay's clinic told the

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Speaker 1: Good gravy on the reisa what happened.

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Speaker 5: Well, he didn't say what was the reason. And apparently

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Speaker 5: He did not tell me or I don't know if

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Speaker 1: Well, Doctor Olie Reisa. Did he recognize the guys.

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Speaker 5: He didn't know them, But the second time when he

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Speaker 2: Tell me about his relationship with the first why.

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Speaker 5: Well, after they were divorced over fifteen years ago, they

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Speaker 5: That was also another factor that they had some interactions

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Speaker 5: Well after the divorce, I was not much in contact

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Speaker 5: She mentioned that she has nothing against her and she

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Speaker 9: She worked in the office with him. She was basically

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Speaker 9: She was the I guess running the whole clinic. She

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Speaker 9: would be personable, but boy, the tension was palable between

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Speaker 2: Doctor mer Showja when did you learn that police law enforcement,

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Speaker 5: Well, there's a question. At the night of the murderer

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Speaker 5: who do you think that could have done this? Or

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Speaker 5: all didn't have any name in common, I mean, didn't

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Speaker 5: from then on, I think the police kind of zero

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Speaker 2: But here's the thing too, Ishiel saw us Rodriguez joining

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Speaker 2: masked male run around the building, not a female.

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Speaker 1: That's correct, Nancy. How else was the purp described?

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Speaker 11: He was described as a male suspect, Like you said,

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Speaker 2: And I'm curious, israel I understand that police rated the

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Speaker 1: Do you have any idea what they found in her home?

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Speaker 11: Well, that Nancy is not disclosed yet. We know that,

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Speaker 11: like you said, this, investigators went to her home in

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Speaker 1: Whatever they found led to this.

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Speaker 12: The horror in the betrayal of this crime is beyond words,

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Speaker 12: doctor Hami Marshojii, hanging Mershojai, in addition to the other

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Speaker 12: until justice is serve and more. Back on August twenty third,

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Speaker 12: mister Hardman, having been hired by Ahan Mayrshojaii, goes ahead

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Speaker 12: to a parking lot in Woodland Hills, the parking lot

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Speaker 12: at which doctor Hamich Mareshojaii had his medical practice. He

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Speaker 12: was driven, as the accusations have alleged by Ashley Suiteting,

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Speaker 12: she brought mister Hardman to that parking lot. He at

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Speaker 12: that point goes ahead and engages in the act.

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Speaker 2: Of murder to high profile lawyer out of LA joining US,

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Speaker 2: Troy Slaton. This is his jurisdiction, Troy, have you ever

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Speaker 2: heard of d I Y do it yourself. Whenever you

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Speaker 2: have co defendants, everything goes right down the crapper.

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Speaker 1: They cannot keep their yapp shut.

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Speaker 2: Here you've got a very crude attack on the doctor

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Speaker 1: Then the idiots if.

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Speaker 2: I go out on a limb and say that are

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Speaker 2: spotted by him again at a gas station, he sees them,

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Speaker 2: he can identify them. Then within weeks he's gunned down.

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Speaker 2: Of course they're going to roll over on.

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Speaker 1: The ex wife. It's a given.

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Speaker 7: There's no honor among thieves.

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Speaker 5: Nancy.

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Speaker 7: You know sometimes we say in criminal law and family

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Speaker 7: law that in family law you have generally good people

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Speaker 7: a mixture of criminal and family law, everything is a mess.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what you're saying about good behavior bad behavior.

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Speaker 2: This is a father of a brand new baby girl

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Speaker 2: with a beautiful new wife. The baby party, you remember

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Speaker 2: where she the baby exidentally knocks over the cake and

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Speaker 2: At first, there's a stun silence, and then everybody starts laughing.

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Speaker 1: Was it just what one instagram too many?

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Speaker 7: If you're asking me to explain to you why somebody

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Speaker 2: But what I can tell you is that you do

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Speaker 2: it every day of your life in court Troice Layton,

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Speaker 2: don't tell me you can't spin it out tonight.

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Speaker 7: Look, Nancy, the facts are really bad in this case,

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Speaker 7: and if I was an attorney working on it, I'm

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Speaker 7: going to be looking at any other possible suspects. I'm

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Speaker 7: that there's no eyewitness of the wife actually committing the

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Speaker 2: Slayton, I'm just having ation to you. There's no eyewitness

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Speaker 2: so you're not at the scene. You haven't wondered what

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Speaker 1: It's called evidence, Slaton. Evidence. You don't see you if

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Speaker 1: she was this angry.

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Speaker 2: About the new wife and all those instances. I mean,

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Speaker 2: those Instagram posts were pretty impressive. It looks straight out

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Speaker 1: The new wife was gorgeous, apparently really sweet lady. Then

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Speaker 1: he seals the deal with a baby, even going so.

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Speaker 2: Far as to have plastic surgery to totally change his

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Speaker 1: And he does please her.

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Speaker 2: They're happy, and the first wife just couldn't stand it.

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Speaker 2: Let me see Slaton. For Pete's sake, can you imagine?

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Speaker 2: I guarantee you this is going to come out in evidence,

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Speaker 2: be a treasure trove. Really, she would have the same

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Speaker 2: be a trail a mile wide choice Layton.

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Speaker 7: So that's going to be the thing that police detectives

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Speaker 7: a lot of technical evidentiary objections to how this electronic

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Speaker 2: Of Rephrase that you you say that the electronic digital

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Speaker 2: crap ton of evidence from these code defendants. You think

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Speaker 2: they want the other the getaway girl, No, they don't

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Speaker 1: The ex wife is going to be pegged.

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Speaker 2: As the mastermind, if you could call it, the big

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Speaker 2: Troy Slayton, because as you know, Troy, a jury will

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Speaker 2: they have to go down together. Everybody else is icing

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Speaker 2: on the cake. That's the strongest evidence. The other co

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Speaker 2: The other code defendants will do whatever it takes to

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Speaker 1: It's a done deal.

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Speaker 7: And that's why the district attorney decided to charge them

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Speaker 7: this case has been charged together, and the district attorney

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Speaker 7: I'm going to argue to the judge, I don't want

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Speaker 9: To my client.

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Speaker 2: That you know what, because that's been gone, that's been

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Speaker 2: picked through with a fine tooth come by the US

443
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Speaker 2: Supreme Court, you know those justices up in Washington that

444
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Speaker 2: sit in that big courtroom. Them they absolutely can be

445
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 2: tried together. I've tried plenty of code offin it's together

446
00:27:54,400 --> 00:28:00,159
Speaker 2: in a murder as Nancy, it's not alty case. A.

447
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 2: Let me rephrase, I keep hearing something, Oh it's you

448
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 2: as not a death penalty case. And B the state

449
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 2: can exclude I'm hearing it again, exclude interlocking statements. Simply

450
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:17,479
Speaker 2: put in unlocking statements is, for instance, I blame Troy Slayton,

451
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 2: he blames me.

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Speaker 1: In statements unless we take the stand.

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Speaker 2: Those statements cannot be cross examined under the sixth Amendment,

454
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Speaker 2: so they're kept out.

455
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Speaker 1: Don't need them.

456
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Speaker 2: So manstory short, they're going to be put in the

457
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:35,640
Speaker 2: same pot to steal Slayton. And you can about severance

458
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 2: all you want to, but it's not going to happen.

459
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 2: They're going to be tried and convicted together.

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Speaker 7: This is a special circumstances case, which means that the

461
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Speaker 7: death penalty is not off the table. And although in

462
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Speaker 7: California the governor has a moratorium on carrying out executions,

463
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Speaker 7: there's a new sheriff in town.

464
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Speaker 6: There's a new DA.

465
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Speaker 7: Who is very tough on crime and is not afraid

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Speaker 7: to seek the death penalty in appropriate cases, unlike the

467
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Speaker 7: past district attorney. So it could very well be in

468
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Speaker 7: this case that they're going to seek the death penalty.

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Speaker 7: Mancy will burn that bridge.

470
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Speaker 1: When we get there. Meanwhile, listen to this.

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Speaker 12: At that point, another code defendant who has been charged

472
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Speaker 12: with the crime of murder as well as carried out

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Speaker 12: for financial gain and assault with a deadly weapon, Sarah

474
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Speaker 12: Lal Jahwed, is met by mister Hardman. Mister Jahwed then

475
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Speaker 12: takes mister Hardman to the state of Texas, where mister

476
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Speaker 12: Hardman is eventually arrested.

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Speaker 3: Doctor Hamad meerserj and his ex wife Shayl lengthy court

478
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Speaker 3: history after their contentious two thousand and nine divorce. The

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Speaker 3: years that followed saw a multitude of suits, restraining orders,

480
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Speaker 3: and heavy settlements. Suspicions arise when the doctor is found

481
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Speaker 3: dead outside his.

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Speaker 13: The LAPD investigation is able to tie Evan Hardman of

483
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Speaker 13: Tumball Texas and Sarah law jo Ed to the murder

484
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Speaker 13: and accuses them of carrying out the killing for financial gain.

485
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Speaker 13: Investigators were also able to tie Harmon and jou Ed

486
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Speaker 13: to the alleged baseball bat attack on doctor Hamid mersa

487
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Speaker 13: Jade that happened on May third and left the doctor

488
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Speaker 13: in fear for his life. Harmon and jou Ed face

489
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Speaker 13: assault charges for that attack. Ashley Rose Sweeten is charged

490
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Speaker 13: with one count of being an accessory after the fact.

491
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Speaker 13: She's accused of driving the shooter to and from the

492
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Speaker 13: crime scene.

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Speaker 2: It's not the first time that an angry spouse or

494
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Speaker 2: mate has tried a murder for hire. Does the name

495
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Speaker 2: Dahlia di Polito ring a bell because I can't get.

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Speaker 1: Her out of my head. Listen how much.

497
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Speaker 12: Pulling out?

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Speaker 5: I think a lot of times.

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Speaker 10: Right, I was telling you people were into bang on

500
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Speaker 10: Aline by put money like I know what thank you

501
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 10: going to Bolka? Are you familiar with Boca?

502
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Speaker 6: I know exactly a war belonging.

503
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Speaker 1: And I know what time he's going to be there.

504
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Speaker 5: He'll be there early, He'll be there when the bike

505
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Speaker 5: copd is your husband, Michael, Okay, I'm sorry to tell

506
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Speaker 5: you then he's been killed.

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Speaker 2: By Detroit Slayton, high profile lawyer and this jurisdiction of

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Speaker 2: LA that's Dahlia Dippolito. Now, much as in the current

509
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 2: case with the Dodger Mars show Jay, she tried to

510
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 2: murder her husband with a poisoned Starbucks didn't work. Next thing,

511
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 2: you know, she hires a hit man, who of course

512
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Speaker 2: is an undercover agent. Now you just saw her bent

513
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Speaker 2: over double Meryl Streep move over.

514
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Speaker 1: She arranged the hit.

515
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 2: I've got her aunt tape with the agent arranging the hit,

516
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 2: and yet there.

517
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Speaker 1: She has doubled over screaming.

518
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Speaker 2: Did you see the cops just going really looking away

519
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Speaker 2: during the screaming fit?

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00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: Did you see that?

521
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Speaker 7: Yes, Nancy, this won't be the first time that somebody

522
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 7: is going to deny that they were the person who

523
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 7: committed a crime that happens every single day and every

524
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Speaker 7: single courtroom around the country. If every criminal who was

525
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Speaker 7: accused of a crime Nancy simply said, oh, yeah, I

526
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Speaker 7: did it, then you wouldn't have a job in your

527
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 7: earlier days as a prosecutor, and neither would I thank.

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Speaker 1: You for your job and career, advised Troy Layton.

529
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Speaker 2: But right now we're talking about murder, the murder of

530
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Speaker 2: a doctor, a beloved doctor gunned down in his own

531
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Speaker 2: clinic parking lot after taking a beating with a bat

532
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 2: by the same idiots who gunned him down. And speaking

533
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 2: of Dahlia to Belte, I listen, come out.

534
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 14: Were seen him before, everything before?

535
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Speaker 6: Do you know her?

536
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Speaker 14: Put your head up and look ahead and never dam

537
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 14: what were you doing coming out of her house?

538
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 9: Did you're not here?

539
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 5: You're going to jail to the solicitation, you're under arrest.

540
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 2: Bam, okay, Troy Slayton, you know who that guy is

541
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Speaker 2: that they just brought in to Dollya Dippolito. That was

542
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 2: the hit man, the hit man who is the undercover

543
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 2: agent and she's like, yeah, I've never seen him in

544
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Speaker 2: my life.

545
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Speaker 1: Did you see that?

546
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 2: I mean, she's holding it, she's continuing the performance to

547
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Speaker 2: the very end.

548
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 1: I got to give her that kind of credit.

549
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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 5: That's what criminals do, Nancy.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 7: Sometimes they they won't admit it, even when there's overwhelming

553
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 7: evidence of guilt, and sometimes that could affect their sentencing

554
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 7: later in court, because if somebody can recognize and shows

555
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 7: remorse and takes accountability for what they've done, then that

556
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 7: could be a mitigating factor that gets them a lower sentence.

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00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 7: And sometimes, let me just say one more thing. You know,

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Speaker 7: as a criminal defense attorney, one of the things that

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Speaker 7: we try and do if we feel like the person's

560
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 7: going to be convicted, is we try and build as

561
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 7: many mitigating factors as we can to try and convince

562
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Speaker 7: the judge that this person should get the lowest punishment possible.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you're actually giving me a headache.

564
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Speaker 2: I want you to listen to Dahlia Dippolito when they

565
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 2: tell her her husband the ones she hired the hit

566
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,839
Speaker 2: man to kill after she tried to poison him dead.

567
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Speaker 1: Her husband is alive. Okay, watch this, Oh my god,

568
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 1: you glory.

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Speaker 9: Come here, please, come here, thank, Come here, come here, please?

570
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 13: Why any.

571
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 6: When come here?

572
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 11: Please?

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00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, the husband has been listening to all the undercover

574
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Speaker 2: tapes of her talking about where he would be and

575
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 2: try to make it look like, you know, a robbery

576
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 2: gone wrong. He heard the whole thing. Now she keeps

577
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 2: a straight face. Now what we when you don't know

578
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 2: a horse? Look at a track record. We know what

579
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 2: did Pulito did before. We know what she would do

580
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 2: at trial. Same thing here.

581
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Speaker 1: We know what the defendant has done before. We know

582
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Speaker 1: what she's gonna do at trial.

583
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 2: Even now, she's say Mike, come here, come here, as

584
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Speaker 2: if he's going to run over and give her a

585
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Speaker 2: big wet kiss.

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Speaker 1: She tried to have him killed.

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Speaker 7: Troy, like Shakespeare said, the lady protests too much, methinks

588
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Speaker 7: somebody can do.

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Speaker 2: Not start with me quoting Shakespeare. Okay, and he didn't

590
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 2: say the lady duck protests so much. Go back to

591
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 2: your polysygn Major said me thinks thou dost protest too much.

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00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 2: I don't know what that has to do with a

593
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 2: cold blood and murder out in a parking lot.

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Speaker 7: What it means is that if somebody is putting it

595
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 7: on too thick then detectives may think that that person

596
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 7: is not being truthful if they're protesting too much about

597
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 7: what they're being accused of.

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Speaker 14: The LAPD rated the Calabasas mansion of doctor Hamid Marshoj's

599
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,439
Speaker 14: ex wife, a Hang Marshoj. Police officers are seen going

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Speaker 14: in and out of the home multiple times during the raid.

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Speaker 14: Coming days after charges have been brought against at least

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Speaker 14: three other people in the ambush style attack of Marshoj,

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Speaker 14: we are here.

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Speaker 12: To announce the additional charges that have been filed in

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Speaker 12: the murder case of doctor Hamid s Mirshojai. The charges

606
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 12: today have been filed against his ex wife, Ahang Mayrshojai.

607
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Speaker 12: She has been charged with effectively hiring a hitman gentlemen

608
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Speaker 12: named Evan Hardman who's been previously charged with murder and

609
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 12: assault with a deadly weapon.

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Speaker 2: Little did he know, he and his beautiful new wife

611
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 2: that with every Instagram post it was rising like sap

612
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 2: in a tree, boiling about to boil over with the

613
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Speaker 2: ex wife, according to prosecutors, until it did boil over.

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Speaker 2: And now the good doctor, the husband, the father is dead.

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Speaker 2: To doctor Eric Eson, joining us renowned forensic pathologist, doctor Eson,

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Speaker 2: he had time lying there in that parking lot to

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Speaker 2: understand what was happening to him, didn't he.

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Speaker 6: There is a possibility that sustaining a gunsho went to

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Speaker 6: the head. There is a point of time, a period

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Speaker 6: of time where someone is it's conscious and aware what's

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Speaker 6: going on, So that is possible.

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Speaker 2: To Israel Sellis Rodriguez, what were his injuries?

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Speaker 11: His injuries were a gunshot went to the back of

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Speaker 11: the head according to the autopsy.

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Speaker 9: Too.

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Speaker 2: The victim's brother joining us speaking out on his brother's

627
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Speaker 2: behalf with us, doctor Ali Rasa or showjay, doctor what

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Speaker 2: is your message tonight as you wait for this case

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Speaker 2: to move forward? And also how is his wife? I mean,

630
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Speaker 2: their daughter will have basically no memory of her father.

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Speaker 5: It's extremely sad and painful for my family. And the

632
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 5: fact that the most painful part of it is the

633
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Speaker 5: fact that my dad was diagnosed and created cancer in

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Speaker 5: March twenty twenty four and have you and I we

635
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 5: were very occupied and busy to get him into the

636
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Speaker 5: program that he can have the new biological medication Crasati

637
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Speaker 5: for his condition, and he was homi too successful to

638
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 5: get that for him, and the medicine was working very well,

639
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 5: and the doctors were surprised that his cancer marker came

640
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 5: down from seven thousand to one hundred. But immediately after

641
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:16,760
Speaker 5: Hammids was shot my dad, my dad's health turned around

642
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 5: and he slowly started losing more weight and he passed

643
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 5: away just about just about a month ago. It is

644
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 5: very difficult within the very short period of time, less

645
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Speaker 5: than six months, that my family have lost two greatest member,

646
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Speaker 5: my father and my brother, an uncle, husband, the grandfather.

647
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Speaker 5: It's extremely difficult. I can't put it towards Honestly, I

648
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 5: don't know what to feel at this time that I'm

649
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 5: handling all my brother's assets, and as a trustee, I'm

650
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:02,839
Speaker 5: very busy with all the tasks, so there's no time

651
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Speaker 5: for me to moan. But what I see around me,

652
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Speaker 5: my mom, my nieces and nephews, they appear to be

653
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 5: very strong. My nieces and nephews have lost their father

654
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Speaker 5: and now their mother's in jail. It is something that

655
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Speaker 5: doesn't really happen to any child. So I honestly cannot

656
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Speaker 5: explain in words how I feel or how they would

657
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:38,240
Speaker 5: be feeling right now. But it's very sad and very painful,

658
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Speaker 5: and it's unbelievable it's real.

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Speaker 1: Tell me the status of the case, what happens next?

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Speaker 11: Well is a strange ex wife Aha Kelch is supposed

661
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Speaker 11: to be in court on May eighth, your return for

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Speaker 11: a prelim and their hearing.

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Speaker 2: If you know or think you know anything about this case,

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Speaker 2: please dial Tip line eight one eight seven five six

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Speaker 2: forty eight hundred eight one eight seven five six forty

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Speaker 2: eight hundred. The state is still building its case. Of course,

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Speaker 2: all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

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Speaker 1: Nancy Gray signing off, Goodbye friend,