Beyond Reasonable Doubt: #8 'Judgement Day...'

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🗓️ 17 July 2017

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Five months after the Michael Peterson trial began the jury is sent out to consider their verdict ; they looked at 500 pieces of evidence and heard from 70 witnesses. They will decide whether Michael is a murderer, or a grieving husband coping with the accidental and tragic death of his wife Kathleen….

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0:00.0	Hello I'm Chris Warburton and this is Beyond Reasonable Doubt.
0:03.4	Episode 8, Judgment Day.
0:06.0	Okay.
0:07.0	All right.
0:09.0	Beyond Reasonable Doubt on BBC Radio 5 Live. On May the 5th. on
0:14.0	May the 5th, 2003, the jury selection for the Michael Peterson trial in the Durham
0:19.2	courthouse in North Carolina began.
0:22.0	It took eight weeks. On July the 1st that same year DA Jim
0:26.5	Harden told the jury that Kathleen Peterson was killed by her husband using a
0:31.1	fireplace blow-poke. David Rudolph for the defense said her
0:34.9	death was a tragic accident caused by a fall down the stairs. The trial continues
0:40.4	through the rest of July, August and September and included details
0:44.5	about Michael's bisexuality and the death of Liz Ratliff, the Peterson's family
0:49.1	friend who also dies at the foot of a staircase.
0:52.0	Who would kill somebody and then repeat a crime in such a similar way and think they can get away with it?
0:57.0	The jury heard from 70 witnesses and had to consider more than 500 pieces of evidence.
1:02.0	Hey Robby, take a look at Peterson right there. more than 500 pieces of evidence.
1:02.8	Hey Robbie, take a look at Peterson right there.
1:04.8	Why is he always holding his hand up over his face, hiding his face, doing this?
1:11.2	There he goes again.
1:12.2	He does it all the time.
1:14.0	Yeah, I would imagine he's very anxious and that he handles his anxiety in different
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