43: Enough Evidence?
Suspect Convictions
Kast Media
4.2 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
As the prosecution rests, the defense and prosecution make arguments for
whether or not there is evidence for a jury to decide Stanley Liggins fate. The judge rules.
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| 0:00.0 | Your favorite podcast, Lost In, is back with all new episodes about people who disappear and go missing under the oddest of circumstances. |
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| 0:42.0 | It's called a motion for acquittal. |
| 0:44.7 | Such motions are made in almost every major criminal case in the United States. |
| 0:49.8 | After the prosecution rests, but before the defense makes its case, the judge is asked by the defense, outside the presence of the jury, to define the defendant innocent. |
| 1:00.0 | And as is almost always the case, the judge Friday denied the motion. |
| 1:06.0 | But in a complex case such as Stanley Liggins, listening to the short arguments on both sides, as well as Judge Greaves's ruling, is a good way of refreshing your memory of where the case is now. |
| 1:19.9 | So suspect convictions is providing you with these short arguments in their entirety. |
| 1:24.6 | We return next week with our usual narrative format. |
| 1:27.2 | At this point, we'll move before judgment. |
| 1:30.3 | Well, essentially that there's insufficient evidence to send this to the jury in order to |
| 1:37.3 | convince Mr. Williams. Your al-be is. I know that the statement acknowledged that this is |
| 1:43.3 | only a circumstantial case. |
| 1:46.7 | There are no direct evidence that ties Mr. Libyons to the death of Ms. Lewis. |
| 1:53.4 | And really the big question is what that direct evidence and more concrete examples of proof are. |
| 1:59.5 | During the entire testimony of everybody concerned this investigation, |
| 2:06.3 | there's been no way to explain how Mr. Liggins would have had the time |
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