45. Closing Arguments

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Closing Arguments Sanchez paced slowly in front of the jury box. She tapped a pencil on the knuckles of her left hand. “I don’t want to rehash all of the evidence we have in this case. I don’t want to bring up the one thousand reasons why we know that Mr. Hemphill killed Ms. Barker and Mr. Farnsworth. I don’t want to point to the obviously greedy motive he had for doing all of this.” “She walked back, took a sip of water, then returned and set her palms on the railing of the jury box. “I don’t want to, but I have to. “I have to because Mr. Hemphill’s very expensive attorney, Mr. Cusper, did an excellent job of finding technical faults in our case—not real faults, but technical ones. And he did an excellent job of attempting to convince you that statistics and odds and probabilities can

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