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John cobelts show on demand we're gonna get right into it because we got a conviction

of Jose Abara he was sentenced to life for murdering Lake and Riley the Georgia

nursing student he was the illegal alien from Venezuela part of of that trend, Diaragua gang.

And we have Alex Caparillo, who's been covering this for News Nation and has been nice enough to give us reports all this week.

Alex, see you there.

Yeah, I'm here.

Thanks for having me.

Hey, give us a rundown what went on today in court.

Yeah, so this was the final day, the one that everyone has been waiting for. We had the defense

begin just by closing out with some witnesses. They didn't really call many up to the stand today.

Diego Ibarra, the brother of Jose Ibarra, chose not to testify because he's got his own

federal immigration sentencing still to go.

So then after that, we had closing arguments made by both sides.

Prosecution took a little bit more than an hour outlining all the evidence I've been

sharing with you throughout the course of the week.

The physical evidence like DNA left behind underneath Lake and Riley's fingernails,

the digital evidence like the GPS from Jose Ibarra and Lake and Riley's phones and watches,

and then the, let's see here, we have the digital and then the video surveillance that's been left behind,

caught on camera, Jose Ibarra, ditching the bloody clothes inside that dumpster.

And then after that, defense gave one last shot at it, talking about the idea that all this evidence is

circumstantial, that it's just as likely that Diego Ibarra committed the crime as it is Jose Ibarra,

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