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GOOD EVENING,
I'M MALORIE
MADDOX.
AND I'M JOHN
KNICELY.
JURY SELECTION
WAS SUPPOSED
TO BEGIN TODAY
-- FOR DR.
ANTHONY
GARCIA.. HE'S
ACCUSED OF
KILLING -4-
PEOPLE.
INSTEAD -- THE
ISSUE OF WHO
WILL REPRESENT
HIM REMAINS
UNSETTLED.
HIS OUT OF
STATE CO-
COUNSEL
MOTTA &
MOTTA HAVE
SPEAR-HEADED
MUCH OF THE
DEFENSE
STRATEGY UP
UNTIL NOW... BUT
THEIR NEBRASKA
TEAM QUIT THE
CASE FRIDAY...
LEAVING THEM
UNABLE TO
DEFEND GARCIA
ON THEIR OWN.
ALSO LOOMING
OVER THE CASE
-- AS DON
GRANESE
REPORTS --
ETHICAL
QUESTIONS WITH
MOTTA & MOTTA.
THIS IS OUR WEB
SITE W-O-W-T DOT -
COM.
IT'S ALSO NOW PART
OF SOME EVIDENCE
PRESENTED IN THE
GARCIA CASE.
IN TWO STORIES WE
REPORTED LAST
WEEK WE HEAR
FROM ALISON
MOTTA... AND WHILE
WE HAD EVERY
RIGHT TO AIR THE
THINGS SHE TOLD
US... IT'S THOSE
VIDEO CLIPS
PROSECUTION
PLAYED OUT IN
COURT THAT
THEY'RE CALLING
UNETHICAL ON HER
PART.
"PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
AND DNA EVIDENCE
ESTABLISHES
UNDENIABLY,
UNMISTAKABLY AND
WITHOUT DOUBT
THOSE MURDERS
WERE COMMITTED
BY TWO PEOPLE AND
THAT THAT WAS
CHARLIE SIMMER
AND HIS
ACCOMPLICE AND
NOT ANTHONY
GARCIA."
REGARDLESS OF
WHETHER THE
STATEMENT IS
TRUE...
PROSECUTORS
BELIEVE WHAT
ALISON MOTTA
TOLD
REPORTERS AND
POSTED ON
SOCIAL MEDIA IS
MISLEADING TO
POSSIBLE
JURORS...
TAMPERING WITH
THE SELECTION
PROCESS... AND
JUST PLAIN
UNETHICAL.
THE DOUGLAS
COUNTY
ATTORNEY DIDN'T
HAVE ANYTHING
TO ADD AFTER
THE HEARING.
"YOU HEARD WHAT
HAPPENED IN COURT
SO I"M NOT GOING
TO REHASH IT. SO
IT'S JUST, LET'S JUST
LE THE JUDGE MAKE
THE RULING.."
BUT HE DID
BRING A DNA
FORENSIC
ANALYST TO
TESTIFY IN
COURT.
HER REPORTS
SHOW THERE
WASN'T A CLEAR
CONNECTION AS
MOTTA CLAIMS.
"WHEN THEY LOOK
AT THE SAME DNA
THEY'RE GOING TO
REALIZE THAT THAT
EXISTS IN THEIR
OWN NUMBERS."
KLEINE INSISTS
IT'S ABSOLUTELY
NOT TRUE.
HE POINTED TO
OTHER TIMES
THE MOTTAS
HAVE PUBLICLY
VOICED
QUESTIONABLE
FACTS TO THE
MEDIA AND
ENDED BY
SAYING HE
THINKS THE
CASE SHOULD
MOVE
FORWARD...IN
THE RIGHT
WAY...WITHOUT
THE MOTTAS
REPRESENTING
DR. ANTHONY
GARCIA.
WITH
PHOTOGRAPHER
MIKE PLEWS --
DON GRANESE,
WOWT 6 NEWS .
WHILE JUDGE
GARY RANDALL
HAS YET TO FILE
THE DECISION,
HE DID SAY IN
COURT THAT THE
MOTTAS'
STATEMENTS TO
THE PRESS
WERE
POWERFUL... BUT
RECKLESS.