This is Hidden Killers Week in review.

I look back at the most prolific stories of the week.

This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski.

You're staring down a murder for hire 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. Spoiler, the motion to disqualify him 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 pre-trial,

it's gotten an easy task.

It's got to be a big mountain to go up.

Oh, most definitely, Tony. And, you know,

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