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My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty

Guilty, Innocent, Not Guilty | Married to Death

My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty

CBS News

Tv & Film, True Crime

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Raynella Leath’s defense attorneys Josh Hedrick and Rebecca LeGrand paint David Leath as a man in decline, introducing medical records and anecdotal evidence to provide a motive for his alleged suicide. They attempt to chip away at the prosecution’s arguments, using the same evidence to construct a different story of what happened the night David Leath died. The defense also brings its own medical expert, who introduces a key idea: the difference between the concepts of being innocent and not guilty. Join 48 Hours’ correspondent Erin Moriarty as she revisits the murder investigation of Raynella Leath.

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and love your support. You don't know for certain whether the gun was

1:21.5

opened or the cartridges manipulated prior to that photo being taken. I do not. Didn't have

1:27.5

toxicology, didn't have ballistics, didn't have medical records. I was very confident and 14 years

1:36.0

later I'm even more so confident. And so there's a difference between innocent and not guilty.

1:43.5

I have no idea if she's innocent. I truly believe she's not guilty.

1:48.0

I'm Aaron Moriarty 48 hours. This is married to death Part 4.

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In March of 2003, 57-year-old David Leith was found dead at his Tennessee home of what at first

2:04.3

appeared to be a suicide. But when the evidence did not up to investigators, his wife Rainella

2:11.4

Leith was charged with his murder. She was actually tried three times. The first ended with a

2:19.3

hung jury. The second trial, Rainella Leith was convicted, but that conviction was overturned.

2:28.0

Her third trial began in May of 2017. And this time we were in the courtroom. And that's where we

2:37.5

pick up the story in Part 4 of married to death. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, good afternoon.

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