At trial, during the cross-examination, the prosecutor started going through every

statement Gage Batoon made to detectives.

He asked Gage Batoon if various statements he made were lies or the truth.

Initially, Gage tried to say the prosecutor's questions were confusing, but eventually

Gage Batoon began to admit lie after lie that he told his cousin Jonathan Stanley,

the Illinois State Trooper on the side of Route 13 on the night of the incident, and the

detectives.

Gage admitted that he had lied to get out of trouble, but that he wouldn't lie now,

while he was on the stand.

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This is Criminal Conduct, season 4, getting away with murder.

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So John, what was the family and Monica hoping for when they initially reached out to you?

I think that they were looking for some kind of validation, that what Monica and lovely

believed, which was that Praveen didn't just walk into the woods and die, that someone

else may have caused his death, they wanted someone to be able to look at it objectively

and let them know the direction they were going was wrong or not.

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