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This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. You're staring down a murder for higher trial.

Your co-conspirator's sons already locked up for life and your daughter's possibly

one eyebrow away, eyebrow rays away from being the next one indicted.

You kind of need a miracle.

Or at least a judge who might see things your way.

That's for Donna Adelson's legal team made their boldest move yet. Trying to boot Judge

Stephen Everett off the bench just weeks before the trial. Why? Because Judge Everett made it

very clear he wasn't buying their attempts to sanitize the narrative,

especially not when it comes to Wendy Adelson's fictional novel that might read more like a family diary in disguise.

After signaling that parts of that book could be used to impeach Wendy on the stand,

the defense went on offense, arguing that Everett was no longer

impartial. And spoiler, the motion to disqualify and was not only denied. It was denied twice

with barely a flicker of hesitation. So today we're asking how often do these kinds of

Hail Mary judge challenges actually work? What does it tell us about

how the defense sees their own case unraveling before it even starts? Eric Fattis, defense attorney

and former prosecutor joining us to help answer that question. I mean, getting a judge booted

from your own trial, you know, basically because

you don't like how he's ruling a pretrial. It's gotten an easy task. It's got to be a big

mountain to go up. Oh, most definitely, Tony. And, you know, it's a decision that you cannot make

lightly. Because think about what you're doing. You're saying, hey, judge,

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