On Sunday we reported on ABC's In the Jury Room, where, as reported on the ABC site:
ABC News producers were ... granted total access to five homicide cases through special orders from the Arizona and Colorado supreme courts. During each hour of In the Jury Room, ABC News cameras are there as prosecutors build and try a homicide case in court. Public defenders and defense attorneys also allowed ABC News to go inside the confidential lawyer-client relationship as they work to establish their defense. And cameras were allowed to observe juries evaluating the evidence and trying to come to a consensus in what often proves to be a contentious process.On tonight's show:
The State of Colorado v. Bryson KnightPosted by Marcia Oddi at August 24, 2004 08:22 AM
Tuesday, Aug. 24 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET):
Twenty-year-old college student Bryson Knight is charged with first-degree murder and faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison. He admits he fatally shot a man, but claims he acted in self-defense. Knight got into a fistfight with Lewis Carl Morris and lost. The next day, Knight went to Morris' girlfriend's house, he says, to have another one-on-one fight with Morris. The defense says Morris pulled out a gun and fired at Knight. They will argue that their client had no choice but to shoot back. Mitch Morrisey, one of the most experienced prosecutors in the Denver DA's office, says that this is not self-defense but a cold blooded killing. Knight will have to take the stand in his own defense. If the jury believes his story, he will walk free.