I'm Saruti.

And this is red-handed and welcome back for part two of our look at the case of Leo and Michelle Schofield.

Let's just immediately, I think, pick up where we left off last week. At the start of Leo's

trial in 1989 in Polk County. The state claimed that Leo was an angry, violent young man who

abused his wife Michelle regularly, and he had finally ended up killing her in a fit of rage.

The defense didn't deny that Leo had a temper, but they said there was no and he had finally ended up killing her in a fit of rage.

The defense didn't deny that Leo had a temper,

but they said there was no evidence to say that Leo killed Michelle.

In fact, there was plenty of evidence to the contrary that the state was clearly ignoring.

The prosecution, led by John Aguero, came in hot

and got started by calling a total of 21 witnesses to testify to Leo's abuse of Michelle.

Again, this will be a theme throughout this episode. How Jack Edmund did not contest this is beyond me. Now, look, people testifying

as to their experience or like what they witnessed of how Leo treated Michelle in and of

itself isn't the problem because he is on trial for her murder. So it is highly relevant.

The issue is how many witnesses, 21 witnesses, being allowed to testify to basically

the same thing over and over and over again, Jack Edmund should have challenges and would easily

have won that challenge. It's massively over the top to present 21 witnesses to this effect. And it could

have been shown as prejudicial just by the shift volume of the number of witnesses. But he doesn't.

He's just sat there watching Leo get slaughtered. There's no denying that these witnesses were enormously damaging to Leo's case.

His own friends, like Buddy Anderson and Vince Rayner, testified against him.

Bobby said that Leo could get mad over the smallest things.

And while he never actually saw Leo hit Michelle, he had heard them arguing and heard slapping sounds.

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