Hey everybody, it's Ashley Bannfield.

Welcome back to Drop Dead Serious and I am on it folks.

I promised you daily recaps on Karen Reid and we're on day two and is the humdinger.

I say that because if you listened to my recap yesterday, day one,

I gave you this principle that I have learned over years and years and years of covering trials.

And that is when they start out, it looks as though the defendant doesn't have a shot, right? It's supposed to,

because it's the prosecution's case out of the gate. And naturally, if the prosecution

is laying out all the evidence against the defendant, it's going to suck for the defendant.

So when I saw the first two witnesses yesterday, one was a

first responder, a firefighter, I thought, oh, that doesn't look good. There's that firefighter saying,

I heard Karen Reed playing his day saying, I hit him, I hit him, I hit him. It doesn't look good. Doesn't look good. But then her defense

attorney, Alan Jackson, aka. Hotchot, aka a. really good lawyer, maybe one of the best,

got him on cross and said, that's not what you said originally. Originally, your testimony and your reporting was that she said it twice.

But now you're suggesting she said it three times.

So which is it, sir?

What's your memory really like?

Okay, so maybe it's not the greatest way to impugn somebody.

The fact that she might have even said it once is not great, but he did get a little

dig in there, right? Things that build towards reasonable doubt. There's just one little chip

that Alan Jackson took. But today, today he took a full shovel to a witness. And it was Carrie Roberts.

So Carrie was on the witness stand yesterday as the second witness.

And when she testified, I felt the oxygen go out of the room for Karen Reed and her defense

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