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What you know, Alibiers, welcome to another episode of Pretty Lies and Alibis.

I'm Gigi.

Good to have you here.

It's Friday, April 24th.

So glad it's the weekend.

I'm going to be flip-flopping between spring cleaning my house and

continuing to empty out Grammy's house. So, busy weekend for me. And I'm going to give a very

brief overview of the testimony for today in day 11 of the penalty phase for Tanner Horner. Let's jump

in. The first witness was Tanner's fifth grade teacher. He came into school during the middle of the year, and he struggled with social norms. She cries and said she enjoyed teaching Tanner. When he left her school, his new school called very quickly to ask what they have been doing to help with classroom management. On Cross, the defense points out, not unusual for kids who come to school in the middle of

the year to have problems adjusting, and she says no.

The next witness was a speech, language pathologist, and an at-home facilitator who works

with the school to make sure the students able to learn with their challenges.

She also works with the parents, and in this case,

mostly the grandparents, to set up a behavior program, which helps the parents with inappropriate

behaviors at home. She would take the students into the community to show them how to

behave. She worked with Tanner in middle school from 2003 to 2004, and the last time she ever saw Tanner was in

December of 2004. She said he was a great kid, he behaved, and they enjoyed each other's

company. They would go to restaurants to learn how to order, and also how to be patient and wait

for your food. She also said she had pet deer. She accidentally said pet

beer, but she would take the students to her house to interact with those pet deer. She said

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