Stephanie Lazarus Keeps Losing...After Trial — Transcript
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- 0:00stephanie lazarus stephanie effing
- 0:02lazarus any other cards that stand out
- 0:04in your mind
- 0:09i'd have to say one of my most top
- 0:11favorite bizarre interviews to watch
- 0:13definitely up there with jody arias now
- 0:15when i say bizarre i don't mean like
- 0:16weird like you know how jody ayers was
- 0:18doing handstand singing and all that
- 0:20type of demonic stuff while she was in
- 0:21the interrogation room but stephanie
- 0:23lazarus she's a woman who lies between
- 0:26her teeth and it's just so hilarious to
- 0:29see her get caught up in her lies it is
- 0:31so satisfying to see them unravel and
- 0:34see them get caught up and tripped up
- 0:36and basically exposed and if you have
- 0:39not seen the stephanie lazarus
- 0:40interrogation video i'ma stop you right
- 0:42now
- 0:44go watch it you have to watch for
- 0:46contact i made a video reacting to it a
- 0:48couple weeks ago i'll link it somewhere
- 0:49below and come back to this video
- 0:50afterwards because i'm going to go into
- 0:51details what happened between stephanie
- 0:53lazarus and her victim sherry rasmussen
- 0:56what happened to stephanie lazarus post
- 0:58verdict and where is stephanie lazarus
- 1:01now this is a woman who bit her victim
- 1:03in the middle of their struggle who the
- 1:05hell does that some damn wild animal
- 1:08you know i don't
- 1:09stephanie lazarus was charged and
- 1:11convicted of first-degree murder in the
- 1:14shooting of sheri rasmussen sheri
- 1:16rasmussen was the wife of her former
- 1:18lover john rutten so i want you to
- 1:21remember those three names because those
- 1:22are the three key people in this case we
- 1:25have the clown stephanie lazarus we have
- 1:28the victim cherie rasmussen and we have
- 1:30john rutten so stephanie and john were
- 1:32dating casually although john rhoden i
- 1:34think to this day hasn't
- 1:36still said that they were never
- 1:37boyfriend girlfriend they were dating
- 1:39through college it was casual and he was
- 1:41never really committed to her but at
- 1:42some point he finds someone that he
- 1:44really loves that sherry rasmussen while
- 1:46upon finding out about the engagement
- 1:47stephanie and lazarus freaked the [ __ ]
- 1:50out top bizarre things about this case
- 1:52one the right that i've already
- 1:53mentioned two the crime happened in 1986
- 1:56but it was not solved until almost 30
- 1:58years later in 2009. three stephen
- 2:00lazarus was lapd and that bite well that
- 2:03bite came and bitter in the ass later on
- 2:05because that was the bite that left the
- 2:06dna mark on cherry rasmussen and they
- 2:08kept that in the evidence room now with
- 2:10all the dna forensics they were able to
- 2:12find out that the dna belonged to
- 2:14stephanie lazarus one of her co-workers
- 2:16had took one of the cups that she
- 2:17disposed and tested for her dna and it
- 2:18was a match she was charged convicted
- 2:20early 2010s and then here she is trying
- 2:23to appeal let's go through it at the
- 2:25trial the prosecution established that
- 2:26stephanie had been in love with rotten
- 2:28and was emotionally devastated when she
- 2:30learned of his and rasmussen's 1985
- 2:32engagement she went to rottens in tears
- 2:34begging to reconsider and later
- 2:36confronted rasmussen at work and were
- 2:38discharged from a gun similar to the one
- 2:40owned by stephanie which she declared
- 2:42stolen two weeks ago after the shooting
- 2:44oh my god that sounds like 20 areas
- 2:46right there now they're not going to go
- 2:47away quietly after this her and her
- 2:49lawyers they're gonna put an appeal and
- 2:51they're gonna say that hey we have some
- 2:52issues with the trial let's go over
- 2:54really quick one the pre-accusation
- 2:56delay violated her due process right
- 2:59though the detectives they already had
- 3:00her as a suspect but when they had the
- 3:03dna evidence it confirmed it
- 3:06would be willing to give us one
- 3:08maybe two the trial court aired in
- 3:10denying a defense motion to quash search
- 3:13warrants in stefan lazar's home and
- 3:15computers
- 3:16okay three the trial court aaron denying
- 3:18a defense motion to traverse the search
- 3:21warrants or the trial court aired in
- 3:23admitting a tape of appellant's
- 3:24pre-arrest interview by lapd detectives
- 3:27i'm so glad that they've released this
- 3:29the public
- 3:33five the trial court aired and failing
- 3:35to hold a kelly hearing before admitting
- 3:37evidence of partial dna profiles from
- 3:38materials found on the victim's
- 3:40fingernail six the trial court aired by
- 3:42failing to allow the defense to reduce
- 3:43evidence for burglary that occurred in
- 3:45the area six weeks after the murder so
- 3:47number five basically says that there
- 3:48was other dna evidence underneath sherry
- 3:50rasmussen's fingernails and number six
- 3:52they were like well you know there's
- 3:53like burglaries going around the area
- 3:55around the time of rasmussen's death so
- 3:57maybe it was them maybe stephanie's not
- 3:59culpable for this yeah we'll see about
- 4:01that now this appeal paperwork goes into
- 4:03more details about what happened the day
- 4:06that sherry rasmussen was found in her
- 4:09apartment evidence at trial so i tried
- 4:12to find uh videos or maybe even like
- 4:15court transcripts of the trial but i
- 4:17wasn't able to get a hold of it and it
- 4:18really does go into detail so this is
- 4:20pretty good enough on february 24th 1986
- 4:24rasmussen this is after she was married
- 4:26to her husband john rutten by the way i
- 4:28think this was like about like a month
- 4:29after they were married or a couple
- 4:30months rasmussen live in a condominium
- 4:32on balboa street in van nuys with her
- 4:34husband john rotten worked as a nurse at
- 4:37glendale hospital rutten the husband
- 4:40left for work at 7 20 that morning
- 4:42rasmussen had called in sick both rotten
- 4:44and rasmussen's sister had tried to call
- 4:46rasmussen at home several times that day
- 4:48beginning at 10 a.m but she never
- 4:50answered at approximately 9 45 a
- 4:53neighbor anastasia valentis
- 4:57notice the garage the rasmus's
- 4:58condominium was open no cars inside when
- 5:02rotten returned at six o'clock p.m he
- 5:04noticed the garage door was open and
- 5:05rasmus's bmw was missing there was
- 5:08broken glass in the driveway from the
- 5:10shattering sliding glass patio door and
- 5:12the door to the condominium to the
- 5:14garage which rutten had closed and
- 5:16locked when he left that morning was
- 5:17open jar uh rasmussen was lying on the
- 5:20living room floor she was still wearing
- 5:22her sleep shirt and her robe the
- 5:24pathologist that examined sherry
- 5:26rasmussen's body uh declared that the
- 5:28cause was three gunshots to the chest
- 5:30and all of them were fatal they had
- 5:31found abrasions on sherry rasmussen's
- 5:34wrist consistent with injury from a rope
- 5:36and a cord like but what was stefan
- 5:37lazarus trying to do like try to stage a
- 5:38kidnapping she had multiple contusions
- 5:40lacerations abrasions all over her hands
- 5:42mouth face head and neck and they had
- 5:45found an injury on sherry rasmussen's
- 5:46face that was consistent with the blow
- 5:48from the muzzle of a gun they also
- 5:50claimed that there was a blow to sherry
- 5:51rasmus's head that was consistent with
- 5:53the broken face that was found near the
- 5:54body and then also additionally on
- 5:57sherry rasmussen's inner forearm there
- 6:00was a bite mark a bite mark honestly
- 6:02after watching stephen lazarus interview
- 6:05i could totally see her doing the bite
- 6:06mark the presence of multiple bullet
- 6:08holes gunshot residue on the quilt led
- 6:10authorities and experts conclude that
- 6:12have been wrapped around the assailant's
- 6:13weapons to dampen the sound of gunshots
- 6:15i thought that doesn't work i thought
- 6:17that was just like a thing that you see
- 6:18in movies but it actually doesn't work
- 6:20in real life i don't know i watch a
- 6:21youtube video on it and apparently it
- 6:23doesn't work especially if you use a
- 6:24pillow to try to silence your gun now
- 6:25one of the major reasons why stephanie
- 6:27lazarus wasn't caught up right away
- 6:28although i don't see how why not because
- 6:30a lot of people are pointing fingers at
- 6:31her makes sense right the jealous
- 6:33ex-girlfriend who wanted to be with the
- 6:34guy but she didn't get the guy at the
- 6:36end these people are pointing at you for
- 6:38whatever reason i don't know why that's
- 6:40just crazy i mean that's just that's
- 6:42absolutely crazy even the victim's
- 6:43family was pointing fingers at her and
- 6:45even john rutten as well but the lapd
- 6:47they closed the case because they deemed
- 6:48that it was a burglary gone wrong now at
- 6:51the crime of the scene stereo equipment
- 6:53had been pulled from the cabinet inside
- 6:54the condominium's living room and
- 6:55stacked by the door to the garage makes
- 6:57no sense a drawer in the living room
- 6:59table had been pulled out and the
- 7:00contents dubbed on the floor although
- 7:02there's no evidence of forced entry the
- 7:04rooms containing other valuables
- 7:05including additional stereo equipment
- 7:07were undisturbed the detectives who
- 7:09initially investigated they concluded
- 7:11that it was committed in the course of a
- 7:13burglary specifically they theorized
- 7:15that one or two burglars have came in
- 7:17through the door they were surprised by
- 7:18raz museum's presence and they had shot
- 7:20her over a struggle with her gun there
- 7:22are also other theories out there that
- 7:24since stephen lazarus was lapd they were
- 7:26saying lapd was covering it up or maybe
- 7:28stephen lazarus was trying to do things
- 7:30behind the scenes to cover up her track
- 7:31i'm surprised she didn't try to make her
- 7:32way into the evidence room and try to
- 7:34get rid of that bite mark sample man she
- 7:35must have been sweating because in
- 7:36december 2004 members of lapd cold case
- 7:40unit reopened the case asking the
- 7:42coroner's office to locate the bite mark
- 7:45tissue sample which had been in the
- 7:47freeze in the coroner's evidence room
- 7:48since 1986.
- 7:50uh in o5 sorry 2005. jennifer francis a
- 7:53criminologist with lapd she examined a
- 7:56piece of one of the swabs and found that
- 7:58there was dna on there now she found
- 8:00that it was a dna profile that belonged
- 8:02to a female so in 2009 the investigation
- 8:06turned towards specific women who might
- 8:08have reason to harm breast mucin the
- 8:11lapd officer surreptitiously obtained a
- 8:14sample of stefan lazar's dna by getting
- 8:17possession of her drinking cup and straw
- 8:19that she discarded now if you remember
- 8:21during her interview in 2009 she was
- 8:23asked towards the end of the
- 8:24interrogation well to her she knows
- 8:26interrogation at the time but she must
- 8:28have knew her gut feeling right you must
- 8:30have known like how are you lapd for 25
- 8:32years and not realize that you're really
- 8:33being interrogated okay don't get me
- 8:34wrong you're right i have been doing
- 8:36this a long time yeah and i wish i had
- 8:38been recording this but uh towards the
- 8:39end uh they tried to ask her for her dna
- 8:41swap and she was like no they were like
- 8:44okay okay sure but you know they end up
- 8:46getting it anyways asides from the scene
- 8:47of the crime i don't know why i keep
- 8:48saying crime on the scene but aside from
- 8:49the scene of the crime there are other
- 8:51factors there are other factors that
- 8:53contribute to evidence against stephen
- 8:55lazarus let's talk about this event
- 8:56right here so in 1986 stephanie lazarus
- 8:58was already lapd officer uh she actually
- 9:01got into the police academy in 1983 and
- 9:04graduated 1984. it's only one year for
- 9:06police academy
- 9:07anyways um
- 9:09um so brian met curtin who attended the
- 9:12academy with stephan lazarus described
- 9:14her as the most strongest most
- 9:16aggressive most persistent fighter of
- 9:19the woman in the class
- 9:21her level of strength with respect to
- 9:22other women as superior now just to keep
- 9:25in mind sherry rasmussen was over six
- 9:27feet tall she was also very athletic and
- 9:29i'm sure she was pretty strong as well
- 9:30like when you're a nurse sometimes you
- 9:32have to lift up heavy bodies so you
- 9:33definitely gotta get some strength but
- 9:34they also testified that stephan lazarus
- 9:36was a expert shooter however stephan
- 9:39lazarus showed her friend and fellow
- 9:41officer lock picking tools and that she
- 9:44had learned how to use them
- 9:47you know what they did say that sherry
- 9:49rasmussen's apartment there was no signs
- 9:51of breaking and entering so
- 9:53stephanie lazarus being the crazy person
- 9:55that she is most likely picked a lock
- 9:57can you imagine doing that in broad
- 9:59daylight like what if you get caught
- 10:00that's so embarrassing not like she
- 10:01would care though also in 1986 they said
- 10:03it was common for lapd officers to carry
- 10:05a backup weapon uh which was issued to
- 10:08them by the department so the
- 10:09interesting thing about this backup
- 10:11weapon uh well cynthia lazarus two weeks
- 10:13after sherry rasmussen's death she had
- 10:17reported that her gun was stolen from
- 10:19the glove compartment of her car in
- 10:21santa monica however this story is not
- 10:24consistent to what she told other people
- 10:26i believe at the time she also told her
- 10:28roommate or someone days before the gun
- 10:31was apparently stolen that she was
- 10:32carrying in a bag or a fanning pack and
- 10:34i guess it must have just fell out she
- 10:36asked him how to go about reporting it
- 10:37and then when the pellen reported her
- 10:39gun stolen in santa monica she told the
- 10:41officer the front desk that had been
- 10:42stolen that day uh there's no record
- 10:46indicating a penalty report of the staff
- 10:47to the lapd armor so we're gonna rewind
- 10:50things back a little bit we're gonna go
- 10:52back to the time when stephan lazarus
- 10:55and john rotten rotating and what
- 10:57happened when john rotten decided to
- 10:58date sherry rasmussen stephan lazarus
- 11:00and john rotten they had met in college
- 11:02dated casually in the late 1970s after
- 11:04graduation between 1981 and 1984 they
- 11:08continued to date and they were sexually
- 11:10intimate but rotten didn't consider as a
- 11:13girlfriend oh must have been a blow to
- 11:14her in june 1984 rotten had met
- 11:17rasmussen
- 11:19this just reminds me of jodie aries so
- 11:21much where jody was dating travis
- 11:23alexander
- 11:24then travis is like oh i'm good travis
- 11:26was seeing other people but the same
- 11:28time he was sexually intimate with jody
- 11:30and you know what i i'm i guarantee you
- 11:33that jody aries and stephan lazarus they
- 11:35were just trying to play at the cool
- 11:36girl like oh yeah i'm like the cool girl
- 11:38i don't care you can sleep with their
- 11:39people you know but you know behind the
- 11:41scenes they're probably seething not
- 11:42gonna lie though i try to play cool girl
- 11:44once and that [ __ ] that [ __ ] sucks it
- 11:46slugs [ __ ] that to all you young people
- 11:48out there don't play the cool girl it's
- 11:50not worth it so in may of 1985 john
- 11:53broughton and rasmussen they had become
- 11:54engaged in june of 1985
- 11:58stephen lazarus found out about the
- 11:59engagement called him upset and crying
- 12:03she asked john rotten to come to her
- 12:05condo at the time when he arrived the
- 12:07scene was a mess stephan lazarus was
- 12:09crying she was telling jon that she was
- 12:11in love with him and then repeatedly
- 12:13asked him to have sex with her following
- 12:15this encounter ruxin continued his
- 12:16relationship with rasmussen and several
- 12:19weeks later they moved in together some
- 12:21time after rutten and rasmussen were
- 12:22living together stephanie lazarus went
- 12:25to the hospital where sherry rasmussen
- 12:26had worked at and confronted her they
- 12:28had a verbal altercation and of course
- 12:30that evening cheri rasmussen she is so
- 12:33visibly upset she goes home she goes to
- 12:35vent her fiance and john rutten was like
- 12:37you know what i i have a confession to
- 12:39make you know that time when she called
- 12:40me and i went over to her condo well i
- 12:42had sex with her and so rutson had
- 12:45promised sherry laura smussen that he
- 12:47was never gonna have any more contact
- 12:48with stephanie they went on and
- 12:50continued to marry in november of
- 12:521985. so stephanie lazarus had told her
- 12:55roommate that she was in love with jon
- 12:58on one occasion while their roommate
- 12:59sometimes between 1984 1985 she woke up
- 13:03her roommate in the middle of the night
- 13:04she was crying she wanted everyone to
- 13:06console her she had told him that oh
- 13:08john had broken up with me and is going
- 13:09to marry someone else that's like red
- 13:11flags right there also stephanie became
- 13:13really sad easily upset after the
- 13:15breakup uh she also told the roommate
- 13:17that she had went to sherry rasmussen's
- 13:19place of work and confronted her when
- 13:22discussing why she did not date for an
- 13:23extended period after the breakup
- 13:25stephen lazarus told
- 13:26her roommate that she was picky and
- 13:28preferred men who were tall and athletic
- 13:30like john after stephen lazarus was
- 13:32arrested they had a search warrant and
- 13:34they went into her house they found
- 13:36journals daily planners some photos of
- 13:39john rudden still even though at the
- 13:40time he was already married the journal
- 13:42covered appeared between november 1984
- 13:45in august 1986 so this is before and
- 13:48after rasmussen's death i'm an entry for
- 13:51november 1984 discuss the night that
- 13:53kept my mind off john for a while anyway
- 13:56and then there's entry for april 1985
- 13:58stated the appellant saw john rutten's
- 14:00car put a note on it watch it for one
- 14:02and a half hour and check up on it a few
- 14:04times
- 14:05dude she was obsessive an entree for may
- 14:081985 mentioned visiting rotten and his
- 14:10girlfriend being there an entry from
- 14:121985 stated the appellant stephanie had
- 14:14found a rutten was getting married she
- 14:16described herself as being very
- 14:17depressed and her concentration was
- 14:19negative 10. listen if the guy that
- 14:21you're interested in
- 14:22has moved in with his girlfriend they're
- 14:24obviously at the stage of their
- 14:25relationship where things are starting
- 14:26to get serious another entry for june 85
- 14:28says that stephanie lazarus didn't feel
- 14:30like working too stressed out about john
- 14:33had a hard time concentrating these days
- 14:35so i caught up and said i didn't feel
- 14:36well could have a t.o i think it's time
- 14:38off they gave it to me uh there was no
- 14:41journal entry for march 1986 or any
- 14:44other time mentioning that her gun had
- 14:46been stolen you know what i think for
- 14:48jodi aries they also went through her
- 14:49journal entries too in august of 1985
- 14:51stefan lazarus wrote to john's mother
- 14:54telling her that she was truly in love
- 14:56with john and the past year had really
- 14:59torn her up the letter further stated i
- 15:01wish it hadn't ended the way it did and
- 15:03i don't think i'll ever understand
- 15:04john's decision uh in december 1985
- 15:07stephanie lazarus received a letter from
- 15:08jon renton's mom in her journal that
- 15:10made her very very very sad on the day
- 15:13of sherry rasmussen's death where was
- 15:15stephanie lazarus she was off work she
- 15:18was working that day and not only she
- 15:20was off that day but she was off the
- 15:22three days afterwards now let's talk
- 15:24about what happened after cherie
- 15:26rasmus's death did her and jon ever get
- 15:28back together did she finally get what
- 15:30she wanted or did she end up doing all
- 15:31this for no damn reason rutten saw
- 15:34stefan lazarus in 1989 so roughly
- 15:37three years afterwards uh they were both
- 15:39in hawaii on vacation with other people
- 15:42he saw her two or three times afterwards
- 15:44and they had a sexual relations they
- 15:45were never in a relationship this is
- 15:47what i don't get why did stephanie
- 15:49lazarus do all this why do this if
- 15:51you're not even gonna end up with the
- 15:52guy anyways i mean it says right here
- 15:54that she backed off after rasmussen's
- 15:56death now they were able to examine
- 15:59stefan lazarus's computer they found how
- 16:01did they even go back this far but they
- 16:04found that on her computer she had
- 16:05performed searches of john rutten's name
- 16:07in april 1998 in may 1999 and december
- 16:121999 that's like
- 16:1410 years later good girl
- 16:16does she not delete her internet history
- 16:18or i guess they can still recover it
- 16:20even though your internet history is
- 16:21clear i guess right now i want to jump
- 16:23to this part of the document right here
- 16:24because this just reaffirms what i said
- 16:26earlier people had suspicions that it
- 16:28was definitely a lazarus one after the
- 16:31death of rasmussen russian informed
- 16:32investigators that stephanie was his
- 16:34former girlfriend two sherry rasmussen's
- 16:36father told investigator that rasmussen
- 16:39had been threatened by her husband's
- 16:40former girlfriend three rasmussen's
- 16:43parents advised him to investigate
- 16:45stephanie lazarus i do want to jump
- 16:47ahead and talk about the burglaries that
- 16:48were going on in sherry rasmussen's
- 16:50neighborhood because the burglaries were
- 16:52the reason why they thought that sherry
- 16:54rasmussen was involved in a burglary
- 16:56gone wrong during opening statements
- 16:58defense council indicated his intention
- 17:00to present evidence of a burglary that
- 17:01occurred in rasmussen's neighborhood in
- 17:03april 86. the court subsequently warned
- 17:06council there would have to be
- 17:07remarkable similarities before evidence
- 17:10could come in and question why this
- 17:11matter has not been resolved prior to
- 17:13trial the next day the prosecution filed
- 17:15a motion to exclude third party
- 17:17culpability evidence the moving papers
- 17:19contained in the april burglary was
- 17:21remarkably different from the crime at
- 17:23issue and there was no direct or
- 17:26circumstantial evidence linking any
- 17:28third person to fresnes's murder
- 17:30according to police reports on april 11
- 17:331986
- 17:34six weeks after the murder a residential
- 17:37burglary occurred on balboa boulevard
- 17:39over a mile from resume since
- 17:41condominium the victim's condominium was
- 17:43similar to rasmussen's in which both had
- 17:45locked security gates and stairs leading
- 17:47from the garages to the condominiums the
- 17:49victim lisa rivalli told the detectives
- 17:51that she had been home all day during
- 17:53the burglary due to an illness someone
- 17:55rang her doorbell several times that
- 17:56morning she looked out the people and
- 17:58saw and unfilmed
- 18:10and saw an unfamiliar i think it's
- 18:12because anne and un is yeah that's just
- 18:14confusing okay saw an unfamiliar
- 18:17hispanic male she did not open the door
- 18:19when she had left later in the day the
- 18:21younger hispanic male in the blue
- 18:23station wagon seemed to be watching her
- 18:25uh when she returned her front door had
- 18:26been forced open standing at the
- 18:28threshold she saw the hispanic male had
- 18:30been sitting in the blue cart now
- 18:31putting stereo equipment uh by the
- 18:33garage stairs into the bag he ran past
- 18:36her out the front door and a security
- 18:38gate a second hispanic male came
- 18:39downstairs carrying a gun describing the
- 18:41victim by a 38 with a four inch barrel
- 18:43our volley had turned and ran the arm
- 18:46burglar also ran ravali observed paper
- 18:48stuff to the locks of the outside
- 18:50security doors apparently placed there
- 18:51to keep the door from locking shut many
- 18:53items on the upper floor of the
- 18:55condominium has to rifle disturb
- 18:56including a typewriter oh my god a
- 18:58typewriter oh these have typewriters uh
- 19:00a jewelry box a dresser a hope chest the
- 19:03hope chest oh it's one of those chests
- 19:04that like opens up like this like in
- 19:05eating the beast the culprits escape
- 19:07with someone for volley's jewelry the
- 19:09trial court concluded the evidence did
- 19:10not meet the standard for third-party
- 19:12culpability evidence and excluded it the
- 19:14court found similar certainties
- 19:15similarities including the killing took
- 19:17place in daytime and the april burglary
- 19:19was a daytime crime theory equipment was
- 19:20involved in both crimes
- 19:22and so was a gun okay however the court
- 19:25found the differences uh prevailed the
- 19:27burglars forced their way inside
- 19:29rasmus's home showed no set of force
- 19:30entry and the burglars ransacked revolt
- 19:33his bedroom took jewelry rasmussen home
- 19:35showed no evidence of intruder sought
- 19:37jewelry the burglars left for volleys
- 19:39home in their own vehicle rasmussen's
- 19:41assailant left in hers finally the
- 19:44burglars upon being discovered by rivali
- 19:46fled without discharging a weapon breast
- 19:48muse of the stale and brutally beat her
- 19:50okay again with the vase with the bear
- 19:52with the gun and there's other marks as
- 19:54well bit her which definitely seems like
- 19:56it's personal and then shot her to death
- 19:58other court found the critical feature
- 19:59to be nothing linked to the suspects in
- 20:01the april burglary true rasmus homicide
- 20:03it's so funny how they're like oh yeah
- 20:04you know these are such similar you know
- 20:06because um well there was a stereo
- 20:07equipment that was involved and there
- 20:09was a gun that was involved
- 20:11so
- 20:12what happened to stephen lazarus appeal
- 20:14well you better defend him right now
- 20:15don't worry spoiler she's not like
- 20:17roaming the streets for you right now or
- 20:18anything certain facts are largely
- 20:20uncontradicted at trial and were
- 20:21demonstrated through the introduction of
- 20:23evidence whose admission is not
- 20:24challenged on appeal the appellant
- 20:26deeply in love with rotten love how he's
- 20:28not was devastated by his decision to
- 20:30marry rasmussen more like deeply
- 20:32obsessively in love okay b the appellant
- 20:35directed her anger not at rockton but at
- 20:37rasmussen while confronting her at her
- 20:39place of work and see the appellant's
- 20:41dna was in the saliva the bite mark
- 20:44inflicted on rasmus's forearm at the
- 20:46time of her passing uh these facts won't
- 20:48raise the nearly inescapable inference
- 20:51that appellant confronted assaulted and
- 20:55murdered rasmussen appellant does not
- 20:57claim the decathlon delay in matching
- 20:58her dna that found in her bite mark was
- 21:00intentionally designed to secure a
- 21:02tactical advantage and showing of
- 21:04prejudice was minimal we discern no
- 21:07error in the trial court's determination
- 21:09the substantial justification for the
- 21:11delay outweighed any marginal prejudice
- 21:14demonstrated by appellant and that she
- 21:16failed to establish a violation of her
- 21:19due process rights i do have a question
- 21:20though if you're prosecuting sorry if
- 21:22you're convicted of crime
- 21:24especially if a crime is heinous murder
- 21:26can anyone disappear or do you have to
- 21:28meet certain thresholds in order to
- 21:29appeal like for example for when i learn
- 21:31about the johnny depp and amber heard
- 21:32trial it's like well not anyone can just
- 21:34appeal the verdict to try to delay the
- 21:36uh the payment process because you know
- 21:39like in virginia you have to post the
- 21:41bond amount which is the verdict amount
- 21:43plus interest six percent and yada yada
- 21:45yada so i i wonder how it is with um
- 21:48appeals for uh murder trials i gotta
- 21:50look that up stephanie's obsession with
- 21:51rotten and desire to continue the
- 21:53relationship reported the inference that
- 21:55she would have returned items relating
- 21:56to him including photographs uploaded to
- 21:58a computer in any event the trial court
- 22:00found the officers conducting the
- 22:02searches relied in good faith upon the
- 22:06issuance of the warrants though
- 22:07stephanie's interview statements were
- 22:08voluntarily made in the course of what
- 22:10any officer in a position would have
- 22:12recognized as a criminal investigation
- 22:15they have that jab man she should have
- 22:17watched because i know how this stuff
- 22:19works i mean i i she said i know how
- 22:21this stuff works yeah she's been talking
- 22:22for an hour and seven minutes if bruce
- 22:24rivers was reacting to seven lazarus he
- 22:26would have been like yep she
- 22:27self-snitched she damned down his
- 22:30natural self we expressly reject the
- 22:33pelan's suggestion that law officer
- 22:35enforcement a question in course of
- 22:37criminal investigations automatically
- 22:39entitled to use immunity for statements
- 22:41voluntary made finally the trial court
- 22:45acted well within its discretion in
- 22:47rejecting appellants pre-offered
- 22:50evidence of third-party culpability
- 22:52based on the burglary of another
- 22:54condominium next week after rasmussen's
- 22:57murder the circumstances the burglary in
- 22:59which the intruders waited for the
- 23:00occupant to leave force entry little
- 23:03jewelry and upon being detected fled in
- 23:06their own vehicle not in cherry
- 23:07residences bmw differed radically from
- 23:09those of a distant instant crime where
- 23:12the assailant gained unforced access to
- 23:13residence while the occupant was home
- 23:15took no jewelry but assaulted bludgeoned
- 23:17and shot the victim to death before
- 23:18leaving the victim's car for similar
- 23:20reasons appellant demonstrated neither
- 23:22violation of her state or federal
- 23:25constitutional rights nor evidentiary
- 23:28error in the trial court's ruling uh
- 23:31precluding her from cross-examining the
- 23:32prosecution crime scene expert on the
- 23:34unrelated burglary
- 23:36the judgment oh let me show you this
- 23:38part right here
- 23:40the judgment is affirmed goodbye goodbye
- 23:43stephanie lazarus may you rot in jail
- 23:45for many more years when was this this
- 23:48was in
- 23:49oh god oh lord well tsar is fighting a
- 23:51lengthy appeal over conviction in may 20
- 23:532013 the california court of appeals
- 23:54second district division four which has
- 23:56appellate jurisdiction over los angeles
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