The trial of Richard Nicholas began on June 6, 1997, almost a year after the murder of his daughter.

On June 7th, the presentation of the evidence was initiated by the state.

After all, it's the duty of the prosecution to prove that a person, presumed innocent, is guilty beyond or reasonable doubt.

But our system has a fatal flaw.

The sole responsibility of a prosecutor is to seek justice.

But the sole measure of their performance

is their number of convictions.

Quantity over quality isn't acceptable

when the consequences are people's lives.

Where the prosecutors in the case of Richard Nicholas seeking justice

are just trying to win. I'm Brooke and this is episode 5 of Convicted. scared as hell. It's all of the testimony I didn't want to hear. I didn't want to see the pictures that they published. I didn't want to be there.

There were, you know, times where if I could have hid, I it's it's it's Christina said you know as soon as you

show emotion or if you act out that's when you are going to lose this rock.

So I tried to be I guess stoic but it's, that was the second scariest moment in my whole life and the first scariest moment was seeing Asia in that car and you know

not being able to help it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's

it's it's it's it's a hard explain but it was you know, very rough.

It was hard.

Judge Hubbard explained this phase of the trial to the jury

as the actual production of the evidence.

Evidence comes in three forms, stipulations, exhibits, and witnesses.

Howard's gonna explain those for us.

Exhibits are evidence that the jury should consider.

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