:22:00
with a ruthless,
calculating woman...
:22:02
who went after an elderly man
with a bad heart...
:22:05
and a big bank account.
:22:08
You all can see the defendant,
Rebecca Carlson...
:22:11
but as this trial proceeds...
:22:14
you will see
she's not only the defendant...
:22:16
she is the murder weapon itself.
:22:18
If I hit you...
:22:21
and you die...
:22:22
I am the cause of your death...
:22:24
but can I be called a weapon?
:22:26
The answer is yes...
:22:29
and what a deadly weapon
Rebecca Carlson made.
:22:33
The state will prove
that she seduced Andrew Marsh...
:22:36
and manipulated
his affections...
:22:38
until he rewrote his will,
leaving her $8 million...
:22:43
that she insisted on
increasingly strenuous sex...
:22:47
knowing he had
a severe heart condition...
:22:49
and when that didn't
work fast enough for her...
:22:52
she secretly doped him
with cocaine.
:22:55
His heart couldn't take
the combination...
:22:59
and she got what she wanted.
:23:03
She is a beautiful woman...
:23:06
but when this trial is over...
:23:07
you will see her no differently
than a gun or a knife...
:23:11
or any other instrument
used as a weapon.
:23:16
She's a killer...
:23:18
and the worst kind...
:23:20
a killer who disguised herself
as a loving partner.
:23:30
Mr. Dulaney.
:23:32
Ladies and gentlemen...
:23:34
you were told
during jury selection...
:23:36
that the testimony
in this trial...
:23:38
would be sexually explicit...
:23:40
and you may find it offensive.
:23:42
You may even be disgusted
by what you hear.
:23:45
But I want you to remember
that Rebecca Carlson...
:23:49
is not on trial
for her sexual tastes.
:23:52
She is being tried for murder...
:23:54
and to charge her
with murder is ludicrous.
:23:57
The state would like you
to believe...
:23:59
that she somehow fornicated
Andrew Marsh to death.