I'm Alice and I'm Brett and this is the prosecutor is now done.

And you can make sort of your initial thoughts on this.

Remember, the state has the burden to prove Richard Allen's guilty.

And I assume at this point, I didn't really read that it happened, but it always happens.

The defense would have made an argument for a directed verdict.

They essentially would say prosecution hasn't met its

burden. That would be denied for several reasons, not the least of which, in this case,

you do have a confession, and it's a confession that's corroborated by one, at least one fact.

You can't, typically speaking, you cannot be convicted purely on your confession. You can imagine all sorts of reasons.

So just saying, I did it, and that was the only evidence the police had would not be enough.

There has to be something corroborating it.

Here you have the I did it, and you have the van fact, which the prosecution has now put on evidence of.

That alone is enough to go to the jury.

Even if you didn't have anything else, the fact that you have a corroborated confession is enough.

Obviously, you have a lot more than that.

I think, and we're going to talk about this later, we got all these confessions.

The first week of trial was enough to convict Richard Allen, certainly enough to get to the jury.

It's a very low bar. So not surprisingly, assuming that argument was made, which I think it would have been

because it would have been my practice, not to, they made the motion for a directed verdict,

and that motion was denied.

So at this point, the defense now has to start calling their witnesses.

And it's been said that the defense...

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