38:00

And Cotter's closing argument was a master

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class in prosecuting. He

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let the jury with little doubt after his initial

38:06

closing argument and then let

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them with zero doubt in his rebuttal after

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White completely shit the bed. As

38:13

someone who believes Jodie is innocent and

38:16

I think the evidence clearly proves that, I

38:18

really wanted to be able to tell you about

38:20

all these sneaky and shady things that Cotter did

38:22

in his closing. The truth is

38:24

he didn't and he didn't have to. White's

38:27

defense throughout the trial was so

38:29

weak and his closing argument was

38:31

even weaker because of

38:33

all that, Cotter's job was easy. And

38:36

after reading all this, there was no doubt in my

38:38

mind that just about any juror out there would

38:41

have delivered a guilty verdict after this. And

38:44

that pisses me off because Jodie deserved

38:46

better. They deserved a real defense. I'm

38:49

not Jodie's defense, hell, I'm not even a lawyer,

38:51

but I think even as a layman, I could

38:53

put together a closing argument that would have set

38:56

Jodie free. I've

38:58

never done this before, but there's a

39:00

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39:13

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39:15

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