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Stephanie Lazarus Keeps Losing...After Trial — Transcript

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  1. 0:00stephanie lazarus stephanie effing
  2. 0:02lazarus any other cards that stand out
  3. 0:04in your mind
  4. 0:09i'd have to say one of my most top
  5. 0:11favorite bizarre interviews to watch
  6. 0:13definitely up there with jody arias now
  7. 0:15when i say bizarre i don't mean like
  8. 0:16weird like you know how jody ayers was
  9. 0:18doing handstand singing and all that
  10. 0:20type of demonic stuff while she was in
  11. 0:21the interrogation room but stephanie
  12. 0:23lazarus she's a woman who lies between
  13. 0:26her teeth and it's just so hilarious to
  14. 0:29see her get caught up in her lies it is
  15. 0:31so satisfying to see them unravel and
  16. 0:34see them get caught up and tripped up
  17. 0:36and basically exposed and if you have
  18. 0:39not seen the stephanie lazarus
  19. 0:40interrogation video i'ma stop you right
  20. 0:42now
  21. 0:44go watch it you have to watch for
  22. 0:46contact i made a video reacting to it a
  23. 0:48couple weeks ago i'll link it somewhere
  24. 0:49below and come back to this video
  25. 0:50afterwards because i'm going to go into
  26. 0:51details what happened between stephanie
  27. 0:53lazarus and her victim sherry rasmussen
  28. 0:56what happened to stephanie lazarus post
  29. 0:58verdict and where is stephanie lazarus
  30. 1:01now this is a woman who bit her victim
  31. 1:03in the middle of their struggle who the
  32. 1:05hell does that some damn wild animal
  33. 1:08you know i don't
  34. 1:09stephanie lazarus was charged and
  35. 1:11convicted of first-degree murder in the
  36. 1:14shooting of sheri rasmussen sheri
  37. 1:16rasmussen was the wife of her former
  38. 1:18lover john rutten so i want you to
  39. 1:21remember those three names because those
  40. 1:22are the three key people in this case we
  41. 1:25have the clown stephanie lazarus we have
  42. 1:28the victim cherie rasmussen and we have
  43. 1:30john rutten so stephanie and john were
  44. 1:32dating casually although john rhoden i
  45. 1:34think to this day hasn't
  46. 1:36still said that they were never
  47. 1:37boyfriend girlfriend they were dating
  48. 1:39through college it was casual and he was
  49. 1:41never really committed to her but at
  50. 1:42some point he finds someone that he
  51. 1:44really loves that sherry rasmussen while
  52. 1:46upon finding out about the engagement
  53. 1:47stephanie and lazarus freaked the [ __ ]
  54. 1:50out top bizarre things about this case
  55. 1:52one the right that i've already
  56. 1:53mentioned two the crime happened in 1986
  57. 1:56but it was not solved until almost 30
  58. 1:58years later in 2009. three stephen
  59. 2:00lazarus was lapd and that bite well that
  60. 2:03bite came and bitter in the ass later on
  61. 2:05because that was the bite that left the
  62. 2:06dna mark on cherry rasmussen and they
  63. 2:08kept that in the evidence room now with
  64. 2:10all the dna forensics they were able to
  65. 2:12find out that the dna belonged to
  66. 2:14stephanie lazarus one of her co-workers
  67. 2:16had took one of the cups that she
  68. 2:17disposed and tested for her dna and it
  69. 2:18was a match she was charged convicted
  70. 2:20early 2010s and then here she is trying
  71. 2:23to appeal let's go through it at the
  72. 2:25trial the prosecution established that
  73. 2:26stephanie had been in love with rotten
  74. 2:28and was emotionally devastated when she
  75. 2:30learned of his and rasmussen's 1985
  76. 2:32engagement she went to rottens in tears
  77. 2:34begging to reconsider and later
  78. 2:36confronted rasmussen at work and were
  79. 2:38discharged from a gun similar to the one
  80. 2:40owned by stephanie which she declared
  81. 2:42stolen two weeks ago after the shooting
  82. 2:44oh my god that sounds like 20 areas
  83. 2:46right there now they're not going to go
  84. 2:47away quietly after this her and her
  85. 2:49lawyers they're gonna put an appeal and
  86. 2:51they're gonna say that hey we have some
  87. 2:52issues with the trial let's go over
  88. 2:54really quick one the pre-accusation
  89. 2:56delay violated her due process right
  90. 2:59though the detectives they already had
  91. 3:00her as a suspect but when they had the
  92. 3:03dna evidence it confirmed it
  93. 3:06would be willing to give us one
  94. 3:08maybe two the trial court aired in
  95. 3:10denying a defense motion to quash search
  96. 3:13warrants in stefan lazar's home and
  97. 3:15computers
  98. 3:16okay three the trial court aaron denying
  99. 3:18a defense motion to traverse the search
  100. 3:21warrants or the trial court aired in
  101. 3:23admitting a tape of appellant's
  102. 3:24pre-arrest interview by lapd detectives
  103. 3:27i'm so glad that they've released this
  104. 3:29the public
  105. 3:33five the trial court aired and failing
  106. 3:35to hold a kelly hearing before admitting
  107. 3:37evidence of partial dna profiles from
  108. 3:38materials found on the victim's
  109. 3:40fingernail six the trial court aired by
  110. 3:42failing to allow the defense to reduce
  111. 3:43evidence for burglary that occurred in
  112. 3:45the area six weeks after the murder so
  113. 3:47number five basically says that there
  114. 3:48was other dna evidence underneath sherry
  115. 3:50rasmussen's fingernails and number six
  116. 3:52they were like well you know there's
  117. 3:53like burglaries going around the area
  118. 3:55around the time of rasmussen's death so
  119. 3:57maybe it was them maybe stephanie's not
  120. 3:59culpable for this yeah we'll see about
  121. 4:01that now this appeal paperwork goes into
  122. 4:03more details about what happened the day
  123. 4:06that sherry rasmussen was found in her
  124. 4:09apartment evidence at trial so i tried
  125. 4:12to find uh videos or maybe even like
  126. 4:15court transcripts of the trial but i
  127. 4:17wasn't able to get a hold of it and it
  128. 4:18really does go into detail so this is
  129. 4:20pretty good enough on february 24th 1986
  130. 4:24rasmussen this is after she was married
  131. 4:26to her husband john rutten by the way i
  132. 4:28think this was like about like a month
  133. 4:29after they were married or a couple
  134. 4:30months rasmussen live in a condominium
  135. 4:32on balboa street in van nuys with her
  136. 4:34husband john rotten worked as a nurse at
  137. 4:37glendale hospital rutten the husband
  138. 4:40left for work at 7 20 that morning
  139. 4:42rasmussen had called in sick both rotten
  140. 4:44and rasmussen's sister had tried to call
  141. 4:46rasmussen at home several times that day
  142. 4:48beginning at 10 a.m but she never
  143. 4:50answered at approximately 9 45 a
  144. 4:53neighbor anastasia valentis
  145. 4:57notice the garage the rasmus's
  146. 4:58condominium was open no cars inside when
  147. 5:02rotten returned at six o'clock p.m he
  148. 5:04noticed the garage door was open and
  149. 5:05rasmus's bmw was missing there was
  150. 5:08broken glass in the driveway from the
  151. 5:10shattering sliding glass patio door and
  152. 5:12the door to the condominium to the
  153. 5:14garage which rutten had closed and
  154. 5:16locked when he left that morning was
  155. 5:17open jar uh rasmussen was lying on the
  156. 5:20living room floor she was still wearing
  157. 5:22her sleep shirt and her robe the
  158. 5:24pathologist that examined sherry
  159. 5:26rasmussen's body uh declared that the
  160. 5:28cause was three gunshots to the chest
  161. 5:30and all of them were fatal they had
  162. 5:31found abrasions on sherry rasmussen's
  163. 5:34wrist consistent with injury from a rope
  164. 5:36and a cord like but what was stefan
  165. 5:37lazarus trying to do like try to stage a
  166. 5:38kidnapping she had multiple contusions
  167. 5:40lacerations abrasions all over her hands
  168. 5:42mouth face head and neck and they had
  169. 5:45found an injury on sherry rasmussen's
  170. 5:46face that was consistent with the blow
  171. 5:48from the muzzle of a gun they also
  172. 5:50claimed that there was a blow to sherry
  173. 5:51rasmus's head that was consistent with
  174. 5:53the broken face that was found near the
  175. 5:54body and then also additionally on
  176. 5:57sherry rasmussen's inner forearm there
  177. 6:00was a bite mark a bite mark honestly
  178. 6:02after watching stephen lazarus interview
  179. 6:05i could totally see her doing the bite
  180. 6:06mark the presence of multiple bullet
  181. 6:08holes gunshot residue on the quilt led
  182. 6:10authorities and experts conclude that
  183. 6:12have been wrapped around the assailant's
  184. 6:13weapons to dampen the sound of gunshots
  185. 6:15i thought that doesn't work i thought
  186. 6:17that was just like a thing that you see
  187. 6:18in movies but it actually doesn't work
  188. 6:20in real life i don't know i watch a
  189. 6:21youtube video on it and apparently it
  190. 6:23doesn't work especially if you use a
  191. 6:24pillow to try to silence your gun now
  192. 6:25one of the major reasons why stephanie
  193. 6:27lazarus wasn't caught up right away
  194. 6:28although i don't see how why not because
  195. 6:30a lot of people are pointing fingers at
  196. 6:31her makes sense right the jealous
  197. 6:33ex-girlfriend who wanted to be with the
  198. 6:34guy but she didn't get the guy at the
  199. 6:36end these people are pointing at you for
  200. 6:38whatever reason i don't know why that's
  201. 6:40just crazy i mean that's just that's
  202. 6:42absolutely crazy even the victim's
  203. 6:43family was pointing fingers at her and
  204. 6:45even john rutten as well but the lapd
  205. 6:47they closed the case because they deemed
  206. 6:48that it was a burglary gone wrong now at
  207. 6:51the crime of the scene stereo equipment
  208. 6:53had been pulled from the cabinet inside
  209. 6:54the condominium's living room and
  210. 6:55stacked by the door to the garage makes
  211. 6:57no sense a drawer in the living room
  212. 6:59table had been pulled out and the
  213. 7:00contents dubbed on the floor although
  214. 7:02there's no evidence of forced entry the
  215. 7:04rooms containing other valuables
  216. 7:05including additional stereo equipment
  217. 7:07were undisturbed the detectives who
  218. 7:09initially investigated they concluded
  219. 7:11that it was committed in the course of a
  220. 7:13burglary specifically they theorized
  221. 7:15that one or two burglars have came in
  222. 7:17through the door they were surprised by
  223. 7:18raz museum's presence and they had shot
  224. 7:20her over a struggle with her gun there
  225. 7:22are also other theories out there that
  226. 7:24since stephen lazarus was lapd they were
  227. 7:26saying lapd was covering it up or maybe
  228. 7:28stephen lazarus was trying to do things
  229. 7:30behind the scenes to cover up her track
  230. 7:31i'm surprised she didn't try to make her
  231. 7:32way into the evidence room and try to
  232. 7:34get rid of that bite mark sample man she
  233. 7:35must have been sweating because in
  234. 7:36december 2004 members of lapd cold case
  235. 7:40unit reopened the case asking the
  236. 7:42coroner's office to locate the bite mark
  237. 7:45tissue sample which had been in the
  238. 7:47freeze in the coroner's evidence room
  239. 7:48since 1986.
  240. 7:50uh in o5 sorry 2005. jennifer francis a
  241. 7:53criminologist with lapd she examined a
  242. 7:56piece of one of the swabs and found that
  243. 7:58there was dna on there now she found
  244. 8:00that it was a dna profile that belonged
  245. 8:02to a female so in 2009 the investigation
  246. 8:06turned towards specific women who might
  247. 8:08have reason to harm breast mucin the
  248. 8:11lapd officer surreptitiously obtained a
  249. 8:14sample of stefan lazar's dna by getting
  250. 8:17possession of her drinking cup and straw
  251. 8:19that she discarded now if you remember
  252. 8:21during her interview in 2009 she was
  253. 8:23asked towards the end of the
  254. 8:24interrogation well to her she knows
  255. 8:26interrogation at the time but she must
  256. 8:28have knew her gut feeling right you must
  257. 8:30have known like how are you lapd for 25
  258. 8:32years and not realize that you're really
  259. 8:33being interrogated okay don't get me
  260. 8:34wrong you're right i have been doing
  261. 8:36this a long time yeah and i wish i had
  262. 8:38been recording this but uh towards the
  263. 8:39end uh they tried to ask her for her dna
  264. 8:41swap and she was like no they were like
  265. 8:44okay okay sure but you know they end up
  266. 8:46getting it anyways asides from the scene
  267. 8:47of the crime i don't know why i keep
  268. 8:48saying crime on the scene but aside from
  269. 8:49the scene of the crime there are other
  270. 8:51factors there are other factors that
  271. 8:53contribute to evidence against stephen
  272. 8:55lazarus let's talk about this event
  273. 8:56right here so in 1986 stephanie lazarus
  274. 8:58was already lapd officer uh she actually
  275. 9:01got into the police academy in 1983 and
  276. 9:04graduated 1984. it's only one year for
  277. 9:06police academy
  278. 9:07anyways um
  279. 9:09um so brian met curtin who attended the
  280. 9:12academy with stephan lazarus described
  281. 9:14her as the most strongest most
  282. 9:16aggressive most persistent fighter of
  283. 9:19the woman in the class
  284. 9:21her level of strength with respect to
  285. 9:22other women as superior now just to keep
  286. 9:25in mind sherry rasmussen was over six
  287. 9:27feet tall she was also very athletic and
  288. 9:29i'm sure she was pretty strong as well
  289. 9:30like when you're a nurse sometimes you
  290. 9:32have to lift up heavy bodies so you
  291. 9:33definitely gotta get some strength but
  292. 9:34they also testified that stephan lazarus
  293. 9:36was a expert shooter however stephan
  294. 9:39lazarus showed her friend and fellow
  295. 9:41officer lock picking tools and that she
  296. 9:44had learned how to use them
  297. 9:47you know what they did say that sherry
  298. 9:49rasmussen's apartment there was no signs
  299. 9:51of breaking and entering so
  300. 9:53stephanie lazarus being the crazy person
  301. 9:55that she is most likely picked a lock
  302. 9:57can you imagine doing that in broad
  303. 9:59daylight like what if you get caught
  304. 10:00that's so embarrassing not like she
  305. 10:01would care though also in 1986 they said
  306. 10:03it was common for lapd officers to carry
  307. 10:05a backup weapon uh which was issued to
  308. 10:08them by the department so the
  309. 10:09interesting thing about this backup
  310. 10:11weapon uh well cynthia lazarus two weeks
  311. 10:13after sherry rasmussen's death she had
  312. 10:17reported that her gun was stolen from
  313. 10:19the glove compartment of her car in
  314. 10:21santa monica however this story is not
  315. 10:24consistent to what she told other people
  316. 10:26i believe at the time she also told her
  317. 10:28roommate or someone days before the gun
  318. 10:31was apparently stolen that she was
  319. 10:32carrying in a bag or a fanning pack and
  320. 10:34i guess it must have just fell out she
  321. 10:36asked him how to go about reporting it
  322. 10:37and then when the pellen reported her
  323. 10:39gun stolen in santa monica she told the
  324. 10:41officer the front desk that had been
  325. 10:42stolen that day uh there's no record
  326. 10:46indicating a penalty report of the staff
  327. 10:47to the lapd armor so we're gonna rewind
  328. 10:50things back a little bit we're gonna go
  329. 10:52back to the time when stephan lazarus
  330. 10:55and john rotten rotating and what
  331. 10:57happened when john rotten decided to
  332. 10:58date sherry rasmussen stephan lazarus
  333. 11:00and john rotten they had met in college
  334. 11:02dated casually in the late 1970s after
  335. 11:04graduation between 1981 and 1984 they
  336. 11:08continued to date and they were sexually
  337. 11:10intimate but rotten didn't consider as a
  338. 11:13girlfriend oh must have been a blow to
  339. 11:14her in june 1984 rotten had met
  340. 11:17rasmussen
  341. 11:19this just reminds me of jodie aries so
  342. 11:21much where jody was dating travis
  343. 11:23alexander
  344. 11:24then travis is like oh i'm good travis
  345. 11:26was seeing other people but the same
  346. 11:28time he was sexually intimate with jody
  347. 11:30and you know what i i'm i guarantee you
  348. 11:33that jody aries and stephan lazarus they
  349. 11:35were just trying to play at the cool
  350. 11:36girl like oh yeah i'm like the cool girl
  351. 11:38i don't care you can sleep with their
  352. 11:39people you know but you know behind the
  353. 11:41scenes they're probably seething not
  354. 11:42gonna lie though i try to play cool girl
  355. 11:44once and that [ __ ] that [ __ ] sucks it
  356. 11:46slugs [ __ ] that to all you young people
  357. 11:48out there don't play the cool girl it's
  358. 11:50not worth it so in may of 1985 john
  359. 11:53broughton and rasmussen they had become
  360. 11:54engaged in june of 1985
  361. 11:58stephen lazarus found out about the
  362. 11:59engagement called him upset and crying
  363. 12:03she asked john rotten to come to her
  364. 12:05condo at the time when he arrived the
  365. 12:07scene was a mess stephan lazarus was
  366. 12:09crying she was telling jon that she was
  367. 12:11in love with him and then repeatedly
  368. 12:13asked him to have sex with her following
  369. 12:15this encounter ruxin continued his
  370. 12:16relationship with rasmussen and several
  371. 12:19weeks later they moved in together some
  372. 12:21time after rutten and rasmussen were
  373. 12:22living together stephanie lazarus went
  374. 12:25to the hospital where sherry rasmussen
  375. 12:26had worked at and confronted her they
  376. 12:28had a verbal altercation and of course
  377. 12:30that evening cheri rasmussen she is so
  378. 12:33visibly upset she goes home she goes to
  379. 12:35vent her fiance and john rutten was like
  380. 12:37you know what i i have a confession to
  381. 12:39make you know that time when she called
  382. 12:40me and i went over to her condo well i
  383. 12:42had sex with her and so rutson had
  384. 12:45promised sherry laura smussen that he
  385. 12:47was never gonna have any more contact
  386. 12:48with stephanie they went on and
  387. 12:50continued to marry in november of
  388. 12:521985. so stephanie lazarus had told her
  389. 12:55roommate that she was in love with jon
  390. 12:58on one occasion while their roommate
  391. 12:59sometimes between 1984 1985 she woke up
  392. 13:03her roommate in the middle of the night
  393. 13:04she was crying she wanted everyone to
  394. 13:06console her she had told him that oh
  395. 13:08john had broken up with me and is going
  396. 13:09to marry someone else that's like red
  397. 13:11flags right there also stephanie became
  398. 13:13really sad easily upset after the
  399. 13:15breakup uh she also told the roommate
  400. 13:17that she had went to sherry rasmussen's
  401. 13:19place of work and confronted her when
  402. 13:22discussing why she did not date for an
  403. 13:23extended period after the breakup
  404. 13:25stephen lazarus told
  405. 13:26her roommate that she was picky and
  406. 13:28preferred men who were tall and athletic
  407. 13:30like john after stephen lazarus was
  408. 13:32arrested they had a search warrant and
  409. 13:34they went into her house they found
  410. 13:36journals daily planners some photos of
  411. 13:39john rudden still even though at the
  412. 13:40time he was already married the journal
  413. 13:42covered appeared between november 1984
  414. 13:45in august 1986 so this is before and
  415. 13:48after rasmussen's death i'm an entry for
  416. 13:51november 1984 discuss the night that
  417. 13:53kept my mind off john for a while anyway
  418. 13:56and then there's entry for april 1985
  419. 13:58stated the appellant saw john rutten's
  420. 14:00car put a note on it watch it for one
  421. 14:02and a half hour and check up on it a few
  422. 14:04times
  423. 14:05dude she was obsessive an entree for may
  424. 14:081985 mentioned visiting rotten and his
  425. 14:10girlfriend being there an entry from
  426. 14:121985 stated the appellant stephanie had
  427. 14:14found a rutten was getting married she
  428. 14:16described herself as being very
  429. 14:17depressed and her concentration was
  430. 14:19negative 10. listen if the guy that
  431. 14:21you're interested in
  432. 14:22has moved in with his girlfriend they're
  433. 14:24obviously at the stage of their
  434. 14:25relationship where things are starting
  435. 14:26to get serious another entry for june 85
  436. 14:28says that stephanie lazarus didn't feel
  437. 14:30like working too stressed out about john
  438. 14:33had a hard time concentrating these days
  439. 14:35so i caught up and said i didn't feel
  440. 14:36well could have a t.o i think it's time
  441. 14:38off they gave it to me uh there was no
  442. 14:41journal entry for march 1986 or any
  443. 14:44other time mentioning that her gun had
  444. 14:46been stolen you know what i think for
  445. 14:48jodi aries they also went through her
  446. 14:49journal entries too in august of 1985
  447. 14:51stefan lazarus wrote to john's mother
  448. 14:54telling her that she was truly in love
  449. 14:56with john and the past year had really
  450. 14:59torn her up the letter further stated i
  451. 15:01wish it hadn't ended the way it did and
  452. 15:03i don't think i'll ever understand
  453. 15:04john's decision uh in december 1985
  454. 15:07stephanie lazarus received a letter from
  455. 15:08jon renton's mom in her journal that
  456. 15:10made her very very very sad on the day
  457. 15:13of sherry rasmussen's death where was
  458. 15:15stephanie lazarus she was off work she
  459. 15:18was working that day and not only she
  460. 15:20was off that day but she was off the
  461. 15:22three days afterwards now let's talk
  462. 15:24about what happened after cherie
  463. 15:26rasmus's death did her and jon ever get
  464. 15:28back together did she finally get what
  465. 15:30she wanted or did she end up doing all
  466. 15:31this for no damn reason rutten saw
  467. 15:34stefan lazarus in 1989 so roughly
  468. 15:37three years afterwards uh they were both
  469. 15:39in hawaii on vacation with other people
  470. 15:42he saw her two or three times afterwards
  471. 15:44and they had a sexual relations they
  472. 15:45were never in a relationship this is
  473. 15:47what i don't get why did stephanie
  474. 15:49lazarus do all this why do this if
  475. 15:51you're not even gonna end up with the
  476. 15:52guy anyways i mean it says right here
  477. 15:54that she backed off after rasmussen's
  478. 15:56death now they were able to examine
  479. 15:59stefan lazarus's computer they found how
  480. 16:01did they even go back this far but they
  481. 16:04found that on her computer she had
  482. 16:05performed searches of john rutten's name
  483. 16:07in april 1998 in may 1999 and december
  484. 16:121999 that's like
  485. 16:1410 years later good girl
  486. 16:16does she not delete her internet history
  487. 16:18or i guess they can still recover it
  488. 16:20even though your internet history is
  489. 16:21clear i guess right now i want to jump
  490. 16:23to this part of the document right here
  491. 16:24because this just reaffirms what i said
  492. 16:26earlier people had suspicions that it
  493. 16:28was definitely a lazarus one after the
  494. 16:31death of rasmussen russian informed
  495. 16:32investigators that stephanie was his
  496. 16:34former girlfriend two sherry rasmussen's
  497. 16:36father told investigator that rasmussen
  498. 16:39had been threatened by her husband's
  499. 16:40former girlfriend three rasmussen's
  500. 16:43parents advised him to investigate
  501. 16:45stephanie lazarus i do want to jump
  502. 16:47ahead and talk about the burglaries that
  503. 16:48were going on in sherry rasmussen's
  504. 16:50neighborhood because the burglaries were
  505. 16:52the reason why they thought that sherry
  506. 16:54rasmussen was involved in a burglary
  507. 16:56gone wrong during opening statements
  508. 16:58defense council indicated his intention
  509. 17:00to present evidence of a burglary that
  510. 17:01occurred in rasmussen's neighborhood in
  511. 17:03april 86. the court subsequently warned
  512. 17:06council there would have to be
  513. 17:07remarkable similarities before evidence
  514. 17:10could come in and question why this
  515. 17:11matter has not been resolved prior to
  516. 17:13trial the next day the prosecution filed
  517. 17:15a motion to exclude third party
  518. 17:17culpability evidence the moving papers
  519. 17:19contained in the april burglary was
  520. 17:21remarkably different from the crime at
  521. 17:23issue and there was no direct or
  522. 17:26circumstantial evidence linking any
  523. 17:28third person to fresnes's murder
  524. 17:30according to police reports on april 11
  525. 17:331986
  526. 17:34six weeks after the murder a residential
  527. 17:37burglary occurred on balboa boulevard
  528. 17:39over a mile from resume since
  529. 17:41condominium the victim's condominium was
  530. 17:43similar to rasmussen's in which both had
  531. 17:45locked security gates and stairs leading
  532. 17:47from the garages to the condominiums the
  533. 17:49victim lisa rivalli told the detectives
  534. 17:51that she had been home all day during
  535. 17:53the burglary due to an illness someone
  536. 17:55rang her doorbell several times that
  537. 17:56morning she looked out the people and
  538. 17:58saw and unfilmed
  539. 18:10and saw an unfamiliar i think it's
  540. 18:12because anne and un is yeah that's just
  541. 18:14confusing okay saw an unfamiliar
  542. 18:17hispanic male she did not open the door
  543. 18:19when she had left later in the day the
  544. 18:21younger hispanic male in the blue
  545. 18:23station wagon seemed to be watching her
  546. 18:25uh when she returned her front door had
  547. 18:26been forced open standing at the
  548. 18:28threshold she saw the hispanic male had
  549. 18:30been sitting in the blue cart now
  550. 18:31putting stereo equipment uh by the
  551. 18:33garage stairs into the bag he ran past
  552. 18:36her out the front door and a security
  553. 18:38gate a second hispanic male came
  554. 18:39downstairs carrying a gun describing the
  555. 18:41victim by a 38 with a four inch barrel
  556. 18:43our volley had turned and ran the arm
  557. 18:46burglar also ran ravali observed paper
  558. 18:48stuff to the locks of the outside
  559. 18:50security doors apparently placed there
  560. 18:51to keep the door from locking shut many
  561. 18:53items on the upper floor of the
  562. 18:55condominium has to rifle disturb
  563. 18:56including a typewriter oh my god a
  564. 18:58typewriter oh these have typewriters uh
  565. 19:00a jewelry box a dresser a hope chest the
  566. 19:03hope chest oh it's one of those chests
  567. 19:04that like opens up like this like in
  568. 19:05eating the beast the culprits escape
  569. 19:07with someone for volley's jewelry the
  570. 19:09trial court concluded the evidence did
  571. 19:10not meet the standard for third-party
  572. 19:12culpability evidence and excluded it the
  573. 19:14court found similar certainties
  574. 19:15similarities including the killing took
  575. 19:17place in daytime and the april burglary
  576. 19:19was a daytime crime theory equipment was
  577. 19:20involved in both crimes
  578. 19:22and so was a gun okay however the court
  579. 19:25found the differences uh prevailed the
  580. 19:27burglars forced their way inside
  581. 19:29rasmus's home showed no set of force
  582. 19:30entry and the burglars ransacked revolt
  583. 19:33his bedroom took jewelry rasmussen home
  584. 19:35showed no evidence of intruder sought
  585. 19:37jewelry the burglars left for volleys
  586. 19:39home in their own vehicle rasmussen's
  587. 19:41assailant left in hers finally the
  588. 19:44burglars upon being discovered by rivali
  589. 19:46fled without discharging a weapon breast
  590. 19:48muse of the stale and brutally beat her
  591. 19:50okay again with the vase with the bear
  592. 19:52with the gun and there's other marks as
  593. 19:54well bit her which definitely seems like
  594. 19:56it's personal and then shot her to death
  595. 19:58other court found the critical feature
  596. 19:59to be nothing linked to the suspects in
  597. 20:01the april burglary true rasmus homicide
  598. 20:03it's so funny how they're like oh yeah
  599. 20:04you know these are such similar you know
  600. 20:06because um well there was a stereo
  601. 20:07equipment that was involved and there
  602. 20:09was a gun that was involved
  603. 20:11so
  604. 20:12what happened to stephen lazarus appeal
  605. 20:14well you better defend him right now
  606. 20:15don't worry spoiler she's not like
  607. 20:17roaming the streets for you right now or
  608. 20:18anything certain facts are largely
  609. 20:20uncontradicted at trial and were
  610. 20:21demonstrated through the introduction of
  611. 20:23evidence whose admission is not
  612. 20:24challenged on appeal the appellant
  613. 20:26deeply in love with rotten love how he's
  614. 20:28not was devastated by his decision to
  615. 20:30marry rasmussen more like deeply
  616. 20:32obsessively in love okay b the appellant
  617. 20:35directed her anger not at rockton but at
  618. 20:37rasmussen while confronting her at her
  619. 20:39place of work and see the appellant's
  620. 20:41dna was in the saliva the bite mark
  621. 20:44inflicted on rasmus's forearm at the
  622. 20:46time of her passing uh these facts won't
  623. 20:48raise the nearly inescapable inference
  624. 20:51that appellant confronted assaulted and
  625. 20:55murdered rasmussen appellant does not
  626. 20:57claim the decathlon delay in matching
  627. 20:58her dna that found in her bite mark was
  628. 21:00intentionally designed to secure a
  629. 21:02tactical advantage and showing of
  630. 21:04prejudice was minimal we discern no
  631. 21:07error in the trial court's determination
  632. 21:09the substantial justification for the
  633. 21:11delay outweighed any marginal prejudice
  634. 21:14demonstrated by appellant and that she
  635. 21:16failed to establish a violation of her
  636. 21:19due process rights i do have a question
  637. 21:20though if you're prosecuting sorry if
  638. 21:22you're convicted of crime
  639. 21:24especially if a crime is heinous murder
  640. 21:26can anyone disappear or do you have to
  641. 21:28meet certain thresholds in order to
  642. 21:29appeal like for example for when i learn
  643. 21:31about the johnny depp and amber heard
  644. 21:32trial it's like well not anyone can just
  645. 21:34appeal the verdict to try to delay the
  646. 21:36uh the payment process because you know
  647. 21:39like in virginia you have to post the
  648. 21:41bond amount which is the verdict amount
  649. 21:43plus interest six percent and yada yada
  650. 21:45yada so i i wonder how it is with um
  651. 21:48appeals for uh murder trials i gotta
  652. 21:50look that up stephanie's obsession with
  653. 21:51rotten and desire to continue the
  654. 21:53relationship reported the inference that
  655. 21:55she would have returned items relating
  656. 21:56to him including photographs uploaded to
  657. 21:58a computer in any event the trial court
  658. 22:00found the officers conducting the
  659. 22:02searches relied in good faith upon the
  660. 22:06issuance of the warrants though
  661. 22:07stephanie's interview statements were
  662. 22:08voluntarily made in the course of what
  663. 22:10any officer in a position would have
  664. 22:12recognized as a criminal investigation
  665. 22:15they have that jab man she should have
  666. 22:17watched because i know how this stuff
  667. 22:19works i mean i i she said i know how
  668. 22:21this stuff works yeah she's been talking
  669. 22:22for an hour and seven minutes if bruce
  670. 22:24rivers was reacting to seven lazarus he
  671. 22:26would have been like yep she
  672. 22:27self-snitched she damned down his
  673. 22:30natural self we expressly reject the
  674. 22:33pelan's suggestion that law officer
  675. 22:35enforcement a question in course of
  676. 22:37criminal investigations automatically
  677. 22:39entitled to use immunity for statements
  678. 22:41voluntary made finally the trial court
  679. 22:45acted well within its discretion in
  680. 22:47rejecting appellants pre-offered
  681. 22:50evidence of third-party culpability
  682. 22:52based on the burglary of another
  683. 22:54condominium next week after rasmussen's
  684. 22:57murder the circumstances the burglary in
  685. 22:59which the intruders waited for the
  686. 23:00occupant to leave force entry little
  687. 23:03jewelry and upon being detected fled in
  688. 23:06their own vehicle not in cherry
  689. 23:07residences bmw differed radically from
  690. 23:09those of a distant instant crime where
  691. 23:12the assailant gained unforced access to
  692. 23:13residence while the occupant was home
  693. 23:15took no jewelry but assaulted bludgeoned
  694. 23:17and shot the victim to death before
  695. 23:18leaving the victim's car for similar
  696. 23:20reasons appellant demonstrated neither
  697. 23:22violation of her state or federal
  698. 23:25constitutional rights nor evidentiary
  699. 23:28error in the trial court's ruling uh
  700. 23:31precluding her from cross-examining the
  701. 23:32prosecution crime scene expert on the
  702. 23:34unrelated burglary
  703. 23:36the judgment oh let me show you this
  704. 23:38part right here
  705. 23:40the judgment is affirmed goodbye goodbye
  706. 23:43stephanie lazarus may you rot in jail
  707. 23:45for many more years when was this this
  708. 23:48was in
  709. 23:49oh god oh lord well tsar is fighting a
  710. 23:51lengthy appeal over conviction in may 20
  711. 23:532013 the california court of appeals
  712. 23:54second district division four which has
  713. 23:56appellate jurisdiction over los angeles

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