As he began to ask his first question, he went over the outline of this case. The district attorney has filed charges against a man accused of breaking into an office building to steal company tax records and killing a housekeeper who encountered him while he was going through the filing cabinet. The prosecution had adequately established the motive and opportunity for the murder, but the question of how Isaac had entered the building concerned everyone in the courtroom. No doors were broken into. No alarm went off. How did the killer get in? The only direction the jury pointed to was toward a small, narrow window overlooking the entrance to the garbage disposal. That single window was the focus of most of the process. Window experts were called to testify, questioned and re-interviewed. Window images of the crime scene were shown, examined, measured, and shown again. The window appeared too small for the defendant to fit through. Both attorneys focused much of their closing arguments on the window, and there was talk among the jurors (except Judy) that a killer would come through the jury room windows one day with all the attention that the windows were occupied.
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