:57:14
We have three people
that testified and identified him...
:57:18
positively as being the driver
at the time that Wood was walking...
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right beside the car.
:57:25
So we know that he was the driver
from the witnesses...
:57:28
and we also know...
:57:30
that it was the driver
that shot Officer Wood...
:57:33
coming from his partner.
:57:35
We couldn't have made a case...
:57:37
with the voluntary statement
that we got from Adams.
:57:40
We had to rely on witnesses.
:57:43
And this is what we did.
:57:46
I always tried very hard,
every judge I know of does...
:57:50
to not show emotion on the bench.
:57:52
The reason, if you do show emotion...
:57:55
the jury might take it that
you're favoring one side or another.
:57:59
So you try to remain passive,
emotionless, objective.
:58:03
I do have to admit that in the Adams case...
:58:06
and I've never really said this...
:58:08
Doug Mulder's final argument
was one I'd never heard before.
:58:11
About the "thin blue line" of police...
:58:14
that separated the public from anarchy.
:58:17
I have to concede that there
my eyes kind of welled up...
:58:21
when I heard that.
:58:23
It did get to me emotionally,
but I don't think I showed it.
:58:48
In death penalty cases...
:58:50
we have a question, or we did at the time...
:58:53
of whether or not that person
is of a dangerous mentality...
:58:57
and might be expected
to commit other crimes.