The Evidence Room
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The trial begins today for a local woman accused of killing her husband on New Year's Eve. It happened so fast and he had put his hand over my nose and my mouth and I couldn't breathe and he's shoving me, he's like go to the bedroom, bitch go to the bedroom and I'm going, I'm like okay okay I'm going, I'm going. My name is Scott Rotor, I'm an evidence specialist. I received a phone call, a domestic homicide case, a woman who's being accused of murder. And I'm like I'm going to call the cops and he grabbed me and he shook me like this and he took my phone and he goes, you want to, I'll give you a crazy call the cops, you dumb bitch I'll give you a crazy, he wiped out, he left, he left the room and he went down the hallway screaming it over and over again. Everybody was really interested in this trial because it was this small town with this beautiful young lady who's being accused of this horrible crime. I walked down into the hallway and I had the gun at my side, he said, what do you think you're going and I said I'm leaving, I'm going and he started to walk towards me, he raised the gun. We've got a dead man and we've got a woman whose life is hanging in the balance. She's the only eyewitness to this situation. And then it was over, it was so quick. And he was on the ground and I was still holding the weapon out and I was still pulling the trigger. Some people were immediately making a judgment for, this is a battered woman. My daughter is innocent, she's innocent of murder. And then some other people were immediately making a judgment, cold, flooded killer. How could she even do that? I think she's a monster. People want to rush to an opinion, they want to rush to the story before the evidence even has been analyzed. I stick to the physical and the forensic evidence. What was your purpose in firing that first shot? To stop Rob, without my life is in danger. I was just trying to stop him, I was defending myself. Evidence. Control court of law, it can send a defendant to prison for life or prove their innocence beyond a reasonable doubt. Tonight on a special 48 hours, we'll go behind the closed doors of legal strategy sessions and cutting edge evidence analysis to show just what it takes to convince a jury that you have the most compelling evidence of all. Sometimes I'll work for the defense, sometimes for the prosecution, sometimes for the plaintiff, sometimes for the defendant. I look at the totality of the evidence and put it together, kind of like a puzzle. This isn't about emotion, we evaluate the evidence, we conduct experiments, we reduce it to a visual presentation and then we try to demonstrate that for the benefit of the jury. If you hire me, you get what you get and I'm going to do my best to demonstrate what I think the truth is. I ultimately, at the end of the day, that's what we do. [Music] 48 hours, the evidence room will be right back. Well, two months ago, I moved to Los Angeles, California to open up a new office just settling in.
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A young woman’s life hangs in the balance.