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The Lindsay Clancy case is now focused on two kinds of information people say they could not see in time. Patrick Clancy told 60 Minutes that mental illness can be 'tragically deceptive.' Days later, Lindsay's lawyers asked the court to investigate what the lone holdout juror disclosed before he was selected and what he was doing during deliberations. 

Michael Desronvil was the only juror who favored criminal responsibility when the panel deadlocked 11-1 and Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4. Records reported after the trial show Desronvil had previously faced a domestic assault charge that was dismissed, had an active restraining order involving his teenage nephew when he was seated, and was involved in eviction proceedings. The defense is not treating those facts as automatic proof of misconduct. It is asking whether his confidential questionnaire and voir dire answers accurately disclosed the background the court normally asks prospective jurors to reveal. 

Reddington's filing also asks for a limited inquiry into alleged cellphone use during deliberations. Other jurors have accused the holdout of spending time on his phone, while Desronvil has publicly defended his verdict position and said he had no doubts about Clancy's criminal responsibility. Judge Sullivan has not publicly granted the requested inquiry as of September 23. The issue is set to return to court September 29 alongside the defense effort to stop a retrial. 

Patrick's interview adds the human side of the same case. He said Lindsay's decline included sleeplessness, depression, intrusive thoughts, repeated medical care, and a stay at McLean Psychiatric Hospital. He told 60 Minutes he believes there were warning signs he simply did not understand at the time. Robin Dreeke and Tony Brueski connect Patrick's account with the new courtroom fight: what was knowable, what was disclosed, and what the legal system does when critical information surfaces only after a mistrial. 

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Before the prosecution could turn Caleb Flynn's affair into a courtroom reveal, his own defense put it in front of the jury. Emily Smith opened with a verse from Proverbs, admitted Flynn was unfaithful and had lied about it, then drew the distinction the defense needs jurors to keep: marital betrayal is not proof of murder. 

That argument is being tested against the state's theory of a staged burglary. Flynn maintains that somebody stole his 9mm handgun from his Ford truck, entered the family's Tipp City home and killed Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors allege there was no real intruder and that the scene was arranged to support that story. 

BCI Special Agent David Hammond testified that the garage entry door did not show the signs of forced entry he expected to see. The defense challenged that conclusion, pointing out that the locks were unlocked and pressing Hammond on limits in the scene examination. The gun investigators believe was used has not been recovered. 
Then there is the evidence that brings the marriage itself into the courtroom. The woman prosecutors connect to Flynn's alleged affair is expected to testify, and the couple's daughters are also witnesses. The judge has restricted video of the juveniles while permitting audio recording of their testimony. 

Robin Dreeke and Jennifer Coffindaffer break down why the defense would volunteer damaging personal facts before the state can weaponize them, and what happens when that strategy meets the physical evidence. The towel found over Ashley's head is treated with the context trial testimony supplied: the first officer said Flynn reported placing it there after a 911 dispatcher instructed him to cover her head. Flynn has pleaded not guilty. 

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Bryan Kohberger is trying to take back his guilty plea as alleged unredacted crime-scene photos from the Idaho murders move through the online creator world. The criminal case ended in 2025, but the records around it are now being contested from two directions. 

A creator with more than 9,000 YouTube subscribers said she possessed unredacted images and was waiting for more. On September 15, 2026, the Latah County Prosecutor's Office, Moscow Police and Idaho State Police said an unknown source had allegedly provided sensitive material to journalists and social-media creators. The agencies urged against publishing, posting or sharing the photographs. 

That warning followed months of legal restrictions. Judge Megan Marshall ordered bodies and immediately surrounding blood blacked out before City of Moscow releases. Idaho State Police later posted nearly 2,800 images in January 2026 and pulled them the same day. 

The Goncalves family said the images were live by the end of a 12-minute warning call. Senate Bill 1250 later exempted death-investigation photographs from public disclosure. 

Kohberger's parents and sisters then publicly supported his post-conviction challenge. His petition alleges former counsel pressured him into a false confession, misled him about prison conditions and failed to disclose evidence he believes supports innocence. His July 2, 2025 plea hearing says something very different. 

Kohberger told Judge Steven Hippler that no one threatened him, no one told him to lie, no one promised anything outside the agreement, and he was entering the plea freely and voluntarily. He also said he was guilty. 
The petition points to hair from Ethan Chapin's right hand. Defense expert Ruth Ballard had examined one hair from that location and described it as morphologically consistent with Chapin's own reference hair. Kohberger now has to support his coercion claims with evidence strong enough to overcome his sworn answers, while investigators face a separate problem: tracing the alleged leak of protected crime-scene material. 

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Caleb Flynn gave police a direction before they had finished clearing his Tipp City home: look at the garage. On the 911 call placed at 2:31 a.m. February 16, Flynn said someone had broken in, his wife Ashley had been shot, and the garage door was open. That detail became part of the intruder story from the opening minutes of the case. 

The prosecution now says the house told a different story. Prosecutors allege Flynn killed Ashley Flynn and staged the scene to resemble a burglary while the couple's two daughters were inside the home. Ashley was 37, coached middle school volleyball, worked as a substitute teacher, and was found dead in the bedroom. Flynn has pleaded not guilty. 

During trial testimony, Ohio BCI Senior Special Agent David Hammond described the garage side-door damage as inconsistent with the forced entries he had seen in burglary investigations. The defense has challenged the state's rush to judgment and is entitled to test every one of those conclusions in front of the jury. The door is evidence; the meaning of that evidence is the fight. 

Robin Dreeke and Jennifer Coffindaffer join Tony Brueski to break down the 911 call alongside the physical scene. They examine what Flynn volunteered, why the garage kept returning in his account, and how investigators separate panic from information that can be checked. Flynn was indicted on 11 counts, including aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, tampering with evidence, and intimidation. The state says the garage undermines the intruder claim. The defense says Caleb Flynn did not kill his wife. 

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There's a document in the Bryan Kohberger case that prosecutors never saw and the families never knew existed until September 2026. Filed under seal by his original defense team, it told the judge their client couldn't fold adverse rulings into a rational read of where he stood.

Weeks later he pleaded guilty to killing Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. A year on, he called a reporter from prison, claimed "actual innocence," and said he really wanted to be heard. Kohberger's new attorney, Greg Rauch, says the judge who denied his old team more time is being asked to grade his own decision, and wants him replaced. The Goncalves family calls Kohberger a narcissist who hates the life he bargained for.

This episode reads the sealed note as what it is: his own lawyers describing a man who can follow every word and refuse every loss.

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I sat down with Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, on two cases. The first is the Caleb Flynn murder trial in Miami County, Ohio. Alleigha Botner, a prosecution witness and Flynn's former girlfriend, told jurors Flynn said at least once a month that he wanted his wife dead. She testified she gave him a last deadline on January 11, 2026, told him on Valentine's Day she had a date in March, and heard him lay out a Monday divorce plan. Ashley Flynn was shot twice in the head early on February 16. Botner admitted she deleted the text she sent Flynn that morning asking if he was involved. Flynn has pleaded not guilty. The second is Bryan Kohberger. His original lawyers told Judge Steven Hippler in a sealed May 2025 filing that he had difficulty comprehending adverse rulings, and he pleaded guilty six days after Hippler denied a delay. Faddis explains what each fight means for a jury and a judge.

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Det. Sgt. Mike Morgan put Caleb Flynn’s own recorded police interviews in front of the jury, including the moment Flynn told him, “It feels like you're pointing at me.” Morgan testified about his response to the Tipp City home where Ashley Flynn was found deceased and about two voluntary interviews he conducted with Caleb.

Morgan said he examined the garage and saw damage near the side door, but testified that what he observed was not consistent with forced entry. He then requested assistance from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Prosecutors allege Caleb killed his wife Ashley and staged the scene to resemble a home invasion; Caleb has pleaded not guilty and maintains Ashley was killed by an intruder. Other investigators have also testified that the garage-door evidence did not appear consistent with a genuine forced entry.

In the first recorded interview, Flynn described what he said happened before and after he heard two shots. He told Morgan that Ashley had asked him to sleep on the couch because he was coughing, that he later went into his daughters’ room, and that he heard the shots while lying on a bunk. Flynn said he ran to the garage, saw the side door wide open, closed it, then went to Ashley and called 911. He also described encounters Ashley allegedly had with a strange man before her death and provided Morgan a written list of firearms and ammunition.

The second interview moved into the marriage. Morgan told Flynn investigators would examine Ashley’s phone and asked whether the couple had problems. Flynn answered, “No. We had a normal marriage,” and said neither phone would reveal trouble. Then came the line prosecutors played for the jury: “It feels like you're pointing at me.”

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Three trustees have held Nick Reiner's money since his parents were found dead, and each gave a different reason for keeping it. Matthew Fishburn never paid the age-30 distribution. Paul Kanin questioned Nick's competence even though the trust requires two physicians' statements to make that call, then paid Alan Jackson's law firm anyway before resigning after fifteen weeks. Jodi Pais Montgomery says she can't release fifty dollars for shampoo without a court order.

Montgomery's position is the slayer statute: if Nick is convicted, the money passes to Jake and Romy as if he died first, so releasing it now is irreversible. She also claims, citing Fishburn, that Michele told him Nick consented to leaving the money in the trust. Nick's lawyers answer that the distribution vested in 2023, that $325,017 came from Carl Reiner, and that the Supreme Court bars freezing untainted money a defendant needs for counsel. The trust is paying both sides' lawyers.

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Joseph Stratman’s cameras didn’t show an outside intruder approaching the home where Alleigha Botner was house-sitting. Prosecutors instead played three surveillance clips that Stratman testified showed a car leaving, returning, and leaving again - evidence the state used to place Alleigha at the house during the period it says Ashley Flynn was killed.

Caleb Flynn has pleaded not guilty to charges including aggravated murder in the February 16, 2026 death of his wife, Ashley Flynn. His defense says Ashley was killed during a home-invasion burglary and investigators rushed to blame Caleb.

Pastor Jordan Hansen of Christian Life Center testified that staff and volunteers are prohibited from intimate relationships unless they are married, and that an extramarital affair would violate church policy. Hansen also testified that Alleigha was house-sitting for him at the time of the incident and resigned from CLC the following weekend.

On cross-examination, Hansen acknowledged there were no surveillance cameras inside or outside his house. He also described farmland and an open field behind the property. That leaves the jury with two different pieces of the geography: a neighbor’s cameras that Stratman said showed no outside intruder, and areas around Hansen’s home that those cameras did not cover.

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Alleigha Botner told the jury in the Caleb Flynn trial what she was doing on her phone the night before Ashley Flynn was killed, and who she was sending it to. The former church intern testified for the prosecution that she was worried the affair would come out in a divorce and cost her her job. So, she said, she went to ChatGPT. Botner also testified she hid the relationship from the FBI when agents first questioned her, and an agent told jurors she was far more truthful in a second interview. The morning Ashley died, Botner said a church member messaged her the news, and her gut told her it was too much of a coincidence. Flynn is charged with aggravated murder and has pleaded not guilty. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis explains why prosecutors would build a case on a witness with this much baggage, and how the defense cross-examines her.

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