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Speaker 1: the bride on video Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. I'm

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being

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Speaker 1: at Crime Watch Delhi. The Polito is a guy working

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Speaker 1: Reporter and crime writer Mark Ebner says Dahlia is a

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Speaker 1: Joining me right now an all star panel. Brian Claypool,

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Speaker 1: lawyer for Dahlia di Polito, Dr Bethany Marshall's psycho analysts,

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Speaker 1: Dr Bethany Marshall, James Shelnutt twenty seven years Metro major

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Speaker 1: case swat now lawyer, and Ray Kiputo, lead news anchor

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Speaker 1: Orlando News w DBO. Ray, what happened? Well, Nancy, these

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Speaker 1: two it's a really good looking couple. You see pictures

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Speaker 1: You know these two, It's just they were like fire

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Speaker 1: a listen to our phrase At ABC twenty twenty. Terry Parker,

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Speaker 1: investigative reporter for WPBF twenty five News, covered the story.

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Speaker 1: So this guy, Mohammed walks into the Boyton Beach police

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Speaker 1: The man, Mohammed Shahati, was recorded as he talked to

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Speaker 1: Dahlia Dippolito, the so called black widow, Brian Claypool, I

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Speaker 1: guess everybody is teaming up against your poor client, Dahlia Dippolito. Here,

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Speaker 1: you can't believe it. You're trying to take in the information,

424
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Speaker 1: you're rejecting it all at the same time, she is

425
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 1: prepared for this. She starts crying big crocodile tears. But

426
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 1: then she cozies up to the police officer who has

427
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 1: just given her the so called bad news, kind of

428
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: presses her body up against him a little bit. He

429
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 1: has his arm around her waist. It's a very sexualized interaction.

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Speaker 1: So here as she supposedly learns that her husband is dead,

431
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 1: she becomes very sexualized in her relationship with the police officer.

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00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 1: I don't know that that small fact just has stood

433
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 1: out to me about this case about you know what

434
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: you mentioned, you mentioned something that triggered what Brian Claypole

435
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 1: just said about claims that Dollie de Polito had tried

436
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,680
Speaker 1: to poison the husband. This is after just six months

437
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 1: of marriage. They're on the honeymoon phase. Reports that Dollie

438
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:53,879
Speaker 1: de Polito, the ex lover turn informant, testifies de Polito

439
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: tried to poison her husband before she hired a hit

440
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 1: man to kill him. Well, that's neither here nor there.

441
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 1: That's background information for you. But then men are just

442
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: wallets for her. Men are need satisfying objects. That's all

443
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 1: they are. Royce. Excuse me, Brian Claypool, I've got a

444
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 1: question for you. Your client, Dahlia de Polito, was she

445
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: ever a hooker? Absolutely not. Her art her contention was

446
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 1: that they mess at a Starbucks coffee shot. This is

447
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: just this is just fantasy and that the media wanted

448
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 1: to propagate to make this a sex to your story.

449
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: But she was not as pretty sexy as it is.

450
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, guys were talking about Dahlia

451
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 1: de Polito, who is now fighting the fight on appeal,

452
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: has been fighting the fight on appeal and with me,

453
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 1: a renowned trial lawyer that represented her at trial too.

454
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you, I've never seen anybody fight

455
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: as hard as Brian Claypool did at trial. But sadly

456
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: for him, there are some hurdles you just can't get over.

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00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 1: Listened to this. I'm sorry, d Ramsey. I'm not going

458
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: to call you. Thank you for coming. I'm sorry to

459
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: call you. Listen. We had to report of the disturbance

460
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 1: at your house and there were shots fired as your husband,

461
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: Michael Okay, I'm sorry to tell you man, he's been killed.

462
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 1: He's been killed. Try to find up right now. We

463
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 1: need to We need to get I can't look. We

464
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: have to do our job. If you want to find

465
00:29:53,720 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 1: his killer, we need you to calm down, need okay. Enemies,

466
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 1: is there anyone that want to hurt Okay, who want

467
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 1: to hurt him? Witness you said they saw a blackmail

468
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 1: running from you. I can't let you see him them them.

469
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 1: I cannot do this right now, I need you. I

470
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 1: need you to take to the station. I can't go

471
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: with these detectives if you want to help your husband, Okay,

472
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: if you want to help your husband, you need to

473
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: go through the station with these gentles and tell us

474
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: everything you know about who he knows, who's connected to.

475
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 1: Don't boy, We've already taken care of dogs without I'm

476
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: a control for right now. Everything's under control. Okay, I'm

477
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 1: just letting that soak in for just a moment um.

478
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 1: You know, Brian Claypool, you have a lot to contend

479
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 1: with at trial. But I know you're sitting down right now.

480
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 1: Maybe you need to lay down for this. Listen. Is

481
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 1: your husband, Michael, Okay, I'm sorry to tell you, man,

482
00:30:52,760 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 1: he's been killed. Killed man, try to tell we know

483
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: the comps are acting. What about Dahlia Midst All of

484
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 1: that tremors and shaking of her body, There wasn't any

485
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: real tears coming in the crying, the screaming, the bending

486
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:24,719
Speaker 1: over Meryl's Streep. Wherever you are tonight, don't worry, Okay,

487
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: I play guilty to invoking Meryl Streep yet again. Doctor

488
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall's Psychoanalans joining us from Beverly Hills. What do

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00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: you make of all of that? In the midst of

490
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 1: screaming about the death of her husband. This is a sting.

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00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: The husband's alive, he's in on it. Did she actually

492
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 1: ask about her dog? Oh? She did. She asked about

493
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: the thought. I heard them say, yes, your dog's okays

494
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: with animal control. Did I hear that? Oh? I did?

495
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: Jackie Okay. That's a detail I had missed after watching

496
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: this one hundred times. So Brian Claypool. She's in such

497
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: grief and shock, she asked as the dog day and Nancy,

498
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 1: all I can tell you is that what you just

499
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: played actually almost helped me almost win that second trial.

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Speaker 1: Just so we have a fair playing field, your listeners

501
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: need to know. At the second trial we had a

502
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: hung jury three to three and the two alternate jurors

503
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: were also voting to equip five to three. Why because

504
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: we argued and Ramsey, the guy you just played, Sergeant Ramsey,

505
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: testified on cross examination when I asked him questions. I

506
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: got him to admit that that was completely inappropriate what

507
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: that police departner did, that that went beyond the bounds

508
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 1: of fairness to go out and stage a fricking crime

509
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 1: scene and then go spouted off on social media. Why

510
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: aren't you addressing those issues because and properly posting something

511
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: on social media only impacts a trial. If one of

512
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: the jurars has seen not only seen the posting on

513
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: social media prior to trial, but has been so effective,

514
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: they can longer render a verdict that speaks the truth.

515
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: That is the law. So you can carry on all

516
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: you want to, Brian Claypool, but the law is what

517
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: I just said. And on jury selection in Vodire, which

518
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: coincidentally is French for to speak the truth, it was

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00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: your duty, Brian Claypool, to ask the jurors one by

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00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: one if they have been so affected by media by

521
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: TV that they cannot render a true verdict. And I

522
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 1: assume that you did do that because you're a good

523
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: trial lawyer. And I assume because they made it onto

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Speaker 1: the jury that they swore under oath they had not

525
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: been affected by social media or news accounts, which means

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00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 1: your argument can't carry the water. It's not worth a

527
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: hill of beans as far as an appellate court is concerned.

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00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: And I would like to point out that the appellate

529
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: court heard your argument as well, but while we're going

530
00:33:56,040 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 1: take a listen to this. They bring in Officer Witty Jean,

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00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: the supposed hit man from the car. It's all weird.

532
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 1: You know who this guy is? Come down, You've never

533
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 1: seen him before. She just stared at him. Um. She

534
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 1: says she didn't know him, and then call it a resurrection.

535
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:23,240
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Police have another surprise for Delia Dippolito.

536
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: Please come here, you come here. She sees her husband

537
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,800
Speaker 1: and he's a love. The show Cops captures this moment

538
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 1: as well, come here, good here, Why not come here? Please?

539
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 1: What you're alive? I love that moment and I'm sure

540
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 1: a jury will too. You're going to jail today, christalssitation

541
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 1: from Rudder. You're under arrest. Did you hear what I

542
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 1: just told you? You kept saying I didn't do anything, dude,

543
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: I didn't do anything. Was that all you could think

544
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,319
Speaker 1: of to say? They were accusing me of trying fad Man.

545
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: I's been called and no. So police have her in

546
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 1: the station. They then bring in the hitman, the undercover

547
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 1: cop and go, you know this guy? She goes no,

548
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: she's on tape negotiating with the hitman. Then they bring

549
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,319
Speaker 1: in the husband and she learns for the first time

550
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: that he's actually alive. It was all a sting. What

551
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 1: can you imagine went through your client's mind at that

552
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: moment with me? Veteran trial lawyer Brian Claypool, who represented

553
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:42,959
Speaker 1: Depolito at trial. Now, before you give Claypool too hard

554
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: of a time, you gotta remember that this trial was

555
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 1: tried one time before he got the case, so he

556
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: stuck with that transcript where Dahlia Dippolito has taken the

557
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:58,320
Speaker 1: stand given all kinds of statements contrary to what he

558
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 1: then must argue to a jury. So what's going through

559
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: her mind, Brian? How did you put it to the

560
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: jury when she sees the hit man come in and

561
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,280
Speaker 1: she says, no, I've never seen him in my life.

562
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: When the cops have her on video and audio negotiating

563
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 1: a hit with him, Yeah, he and answered before I

564
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: answered that question, I wanted to recognize you made a

565
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: great point, so did Ray about the first trial where

566
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Speaker 1: she said it was for reality TV. So what we

567
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,359
Speaker 1: had to do in the second trial is we had

568
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: to we couldn't call her as a witness because of

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Speaker 1: what you said, and Ray said, we could not call

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Speaker 1: her as a witness, because then the prosecutors would have

571
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: taken that testimony under oath from the first trial and

572
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 1: what have completely gutted the argument we were making in

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Speaker 1: the second trial. It's the first point I wanted to make.

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00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: Second point as to this video, when they're bringing in

575
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: Witty Jean and they're bringing in Mike Teppolito, what I

576
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: argued was I didn't go into the mind of Dally.

577
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 1: I just said, look, this is completely inappropriate police practice.

578
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,879
Speaker 1: Is in fact, what is the Cops TV show doing

579
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Speaker 1: in a police station when they're about to arrest a

580
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:10,359
Speaker 1: woman for alleged solicitation to commit murdered? Completely inappropriate, out

581
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 1: of bounds and unconstitutional. Okay, can we now address your

582
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: client in jail after hiring a hitman to kill her

583
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 1: husband and she sees the hitman walk into the police

584
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 1: station and then says, well, I don't know him. I

585
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 1: mean the fact that she died, it looks that clearly.

586
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 1: I agree with you, that's that's nonsensical. She should have

587
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: said she knew who he was and she and she

588
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: made a mistake on that. But with respect to Mike,

589
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: I mean, what would you what would you expect her

590
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 1: reaction to be when Mike walks in. She's been told

591
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 1: that Mike has been killed, and now Mike walks in.

592
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: So she was genuinely surprised at that. I bet she

593
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: was regarding the hitman. You said she made a mistake.

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00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: She outright lied because she couldn't say, yeah, I know him,

595
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: I hired him to kill my husband. So she said, no,

596
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: I've never seen him. She didn't hire him to kill

597
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: her husband. Look, she was supposed to be fifteen thousand dollars.

598
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: Who who? Who? Who goes on and tries to kill

599
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 1: somebody on credit? Gave a lot of people would be

600
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 1: so surprised at how many people, I'm telling you, you

601
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 1: keep saying, please, please, please, many many people put a

602
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: down payment on a hit. I mean you just saw

603
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 1: it a Tiger kid. You put down payment on a hit. Yeah,

604
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: you put a payment on a hit, and you pay

605
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 1: the rest with the deed is done. As a matter

606
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 1: of fact, that's pretty much soop. Maybe not that cheap,

607
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 1: but she really didn't want it done. That's what I

608
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,879
Speaker 1: argued in this second case, almost why she didn't give

609
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: any money. You know what, You know what, Brian Claypool,

610
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: If I'm ever charged with murder. Get ready because you're

611
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: still you're still you're going down swinging, You're still fighting

612
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 1: for Dahlia di Polito. Guys, whether you agree with us,

613
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:03,720
Speaker 1: if defense attorneys are not, and I don't, you gotta

614
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:08,840
Speaker 1: respect somebody that never gives up, and that is Brian Claypole.

615
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: I gotta say that. So bottom line right now to

616
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: Ray Caputo, lead news anchor w DBA Morning News. Where

617
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,800
Speaker 1: does the case stand now? Bottom line? Bottom line? She

618
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: is serving sixteen years in prison in a woman's prison

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Speaker 1: in the o'calla and Marion County, and she's not getting

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00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 1: out for a while, Nancy. But you know, in the

621
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Speaker 1: grand scheme of things, some might think that that punishment

622
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: isn't enough that this woman's going to be getting out

623
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Speaker 1: of jil Now. One thing, Nancy, she was on house

624
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: arrest for years between this happening and her finally getting convicted.

625
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: She's not a mother. She's thirty six years old. She

626
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 1: got pregnant while she's on house arrests. So this woman's

627
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 1: wife is sort of continuing to go as all this

628
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 1: has happened. Well, clearly the ankle monitor kept her from

629
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Speaker 1: leaving home, but she apparently had to visit her long

630
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 1: story short an appeal has gone up, that has been

631
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Speaker 1: a dinner. Well, for some reason, I've got a feeling

632
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Speaker 1: that we have not heard the last of Dahlia Depolito,

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace crime Story, signing off goodbye friend,