Trials are meant to bring clarity.

A search for truth played out in front of 12 strangers sworn to judge only what they're shown.

But in reality, juries only hear part of the story.

Rules of evidence, legal strategy, and courtroom procedure all shape what is presented and what is left out.

And that's no different in the case against Travis Rudolph.

The jury listened to hours of testimony, examined the evidence, and delivered their verdict based on what the law allowed them to see.

In this extra 13th juror episode, we're stepping outside the jury box to explore the pieces

the jury never saw, the context, the complications, and the contradictions that didn't make it

past the bar. And as we lay out what was hidden from view, we're left to wonder,

does what we didn't see strengthen the verdict or shake

its foundation? The prosecution says it was vengeance. The defense says it was survival, but it's the

jurors who have the final say. I'm Brandy Churchwell, and this is 13th juror. Today's episode is Florida

versus Travis Rudolph, part three, beyond the jury box. Before Travis's trial began, there was a

hearing that could have stopped everything in its tracks. Travis Rudolph's legal team argued

that he should be immune from prosecution

under Florida's stand-your-ground law. They claimed he had a legal right to use deadly force to

protect himself and his home. Over the course of four days, witnesses took the stand, evidence was

presented, and the judge, not a jury, was asked to decide

whether the case should move forward at all. In his ruling, Judge Jeffrey Gillen acknowledged that

most of the state's witnesses were problematic for their case, and that their testimonies were

insufficient to assist the state in meeting its high

evidentiary burden. He also said that Keishon Jones' testimony was largely not credible,

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