Honor Killing Trial: Defense Opening Statement

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  • Опубликовано: 31 окт 2024

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  • @CourtTV
    @CourtTV  2 года назад +3

    WATCH #CourtTV - TX v. Yaser Said LIVE - ruclips.net/video/msXDeFP-QDE/видео.html

  • @hannahtell5705
    @hannahtell5705 2 года назад +55

    Honor killings are beyond disgusting.

    • @stormyjade2907
      @stormyjade2907 2 года назад

      Amazes me that he is a big man honor killing his daughters, but such a coward he hides and lies about it. POS needs to be drawn and quartered imo, it would be the honorable thing to do.

  • @carolynwilson7806
    @carolynwilson7806 2 года назад +28

    Personally, I don’t care why he murdered his daughters. I only want justice for those girls.

    • @Honey_Daddy
      @Honey_Daddy 2 года назад +1

      I'm a believer that even when he is sentenced and doing time, there can never be justice in a situation like this. How can things be made just when two innocent lives are lost? The only true justice would be to bring them back, and that cannot be done. There can only be the closest thing we can muster that feels like justice, and it's unfortunate. Some things cannot be fixed with all of the super glue and duct tape in the world, sadly.

  • @angiepahmeier7433
    @angiepahmeier7433 2 года назад +49

    His son and his brother have already been prosecuted for helping him.

    • @doglife3543
      @doglife3543 2 года назад +6

      @Angie what are their names please so I can google and find out what sentence they got?

    • @Strawn149
      @Strawn149 2 года назад +7

      @@doglife3543 10 years and 12 years

    • @rosejr2614
      @rosejr2614 2 года назад +2

      @@Strawn149 doesn’t answer his question

    • @Strawn149
      @Strawn149 2 года назад +2

      @@rosejr2614 The sentence is 10 years for one 12 years for the other. If you can answer the question about their sentences go for it.

    • @doglife3543
      @doglife3543 2 года назад +2

      @@Strawn149 Thank you

  • @StellaFl
    @StellaFl 2 года назад +37

    Honor? There's no honor in abuse. This freak must fry!

    • @2Misha
      @2Misha 2 года назад +4

      Right. I remember the AMW show detailing this case. The girls fled due to sick abuse by father.

    • @sharonbrown6595
      @sharonbrown6595 2 года назад +2

      I agree.

  • @mzs695
    @mzs695 2 года назад +12

    The mother should be on trial too for bringing the daughters to him knowing that he was going to kill them

    • @crystalhanson1483
      @crystalhanson1483 2 года назад +3

      I heard on Court TV this morning; the MOTHER was born/raised in Oklahoma, U.S. and ISN'T any part of HIS Religion/Culture. I found out Patricia Owens MARRIED Yaser Said when SHE was 15! ! Dated only 3 weeks! ! WHY DIDN'T Yaser Said BRING/MARRY a female RAISED in HIS Religion/Culture to ABUSE? ? The mother IS American, she SHOULD HAVE "asked" about HIS Religion and about HIS Culture. . . a 15 year old girl isn't emotionally equipped to make A BIG Decision to Marry Blindly into a religion/Culture she doesn't understand? ? Where was HER Parent(s)/Guardians? ? ? American Laws

  • @bbaraider
    @bbaraider 2 года назад +34

    Such beautiful girls. RIP!
    I remember this awful case being profiled on AMW. Didn't The mom leave him with the girls, and came back , then shortly after, he took them in his cab and killed those beautiful souls?

  • @vickiekasafirek9096
    @vickiekasafirek9096 2 года назад +18

    These defense attorneys just look like fools. As do all attorneys that defend guilty monsters.

  • @gabriella3993
    @gabriella3993 2 года назад +25

    Honor killing is somewhat the norm here in Sweden. We just had an honor killing where two brothers ran over their mother, killing her. Because she met a man. I believe she was in the process of divorcing their father who's in jail.
    I have no understanding to why there's honor in murdering someone who wants a different life than the culture and traditions they were born in. Rest in paradise to these girls 🕊️

    • @toasted_.coconut
      @toasted_.coconut 2 года назад

      Toxic men. It's no different than the men that murder their entire family like Chris Watts. They devalue women's live.

    • @sugarcube2081
      @sugarcube2081 2 года назад +5

      Since i'm from an Arabic country and a Muslim i'll tell you this,(i'm sorry it's gonna be long) In the Arab region, Honor killing has to do with what Arab used to do before Islam, example.. a man finding his wife with another man, one man insulting another disrespecting him infront of people.. When he does nothing and keeps silent to what happened to him and not defending him self, he's not considered a man or he's not man enough and they'ld look down at him and maybe alienate him socially. So to prove he is a man he would kill who insulted him and be a man in the eyes of his society. When Islam came it mentioned that era it in the Quraan as (ignorance days) for their stupid behaviour, and considered killing someone is forbbeden, and only a person who kills another deserve death penalty, eye for an eye. But till this day, there are things people used to do befor Islam that some are still practicing it in the present, and they incorporate it with Islam or tradition, honor killing is one of it, its not mentioned in Quraan at all so they considered it as tradition, and they will do it for the sake of the society. Theres no excuse for what they did and still doing, but i wanted to tell and explain it to you.

    • @gabriella3993
      @gabriella3993 2 года назад +2

      @@sugarcube2081 Thank you for explaining this and reminding me that other religions still have this in our religious books. If it wasn't for the new testament, us Christians would still follow the mosiac laws that allows honor killing (eye for an eye).

    • @sugarcube2081
      @sugarcube2081 2 года назад +2

      @@gabriella3993 you are welcome

    • @Honey_Daddy
      @Honey_Daddy 2 года назад +1

      @@gabriella3993 Sweden has a culture of honor killings? I really didn't see that coming. Can you give me some background on why, as the individual above did about Arab honor killings? Do you even know what the background is? If not, that's ok, but I'm now very intrigued and seeking further education by somebody who is from the society, as I got just now reading the reply (which was very informative, and I appreciated the information.)

  • @aliciahoverson
    @aliciahoverson 2 года назад +11

    I'm glad they are finally trying this man. It's been a long time coming.

  • @savetrump9120
    @savetrump9120 2 года назад +12

    Why did he bring his family here to the US? He wanted the money but not the country that came along with it.

    • @MurderDronesFan-456
      @MurderDronesFan-456 2 года назад

      He didn't their mother is American they were born here. He abused them physically and sexually all their lives. The mother was underage when he married her I think. There are many documentaries on the case.

    • @savetrump9120
      @savetrump9120 2 года назад +4

      @@MurderDronesFan-456 I didn't know that. It seems like he is using his religion to justify what what he did. I've seen Christians do the same kind of thing.

    • @dewilew2137
      @dewilew2137 2 года назад +1

      His wife is a white American woman, his daughters were born here.

  • @flapjackbickle645
    @flapjackbickle645 2 года назад +9

    "My DAD just shot me". The phrase "slam dunk" sums this case up quite well for the prosecution.

  • @vickiekasafirek9096
    @vickiekasafirek9096 2 года назад +11

    These defense attorneys just look like fools.

  • @marriejames01
    @marriejames01 2 года назад +5

    I’ve seen this story on several crime shows and what’s interesting is that the mother is NEVER mentioned after the “honor killing.” She’s the one that tricked her girls into going back home even though she knew about his threats and violent behavior. Where is she!? She should also be held accountable.

    • @Honey_Daddy
      @Honey_Daddy 2 года назад

      For real. I think there have been kid gloves used with her because she was married to this adult at 15, he abused her throughout the marriage, and it's difficult for people to say whether she is just a garbage human and tricked the girls because she sucks, or if she's truly just a victim of long-term domestic abuse and coercive control and felt fear that if she didn't get the girls to go back, something would happen to her...there's a stigma against victim blaming (rightfully so), but that banner of her being a victim of his seems to protect her more than I'd expect it to personally. But I'm a 30 year old man who hasn't been abused by my parents since I was 12, and my wife only finally stopped getting violent within the last year, and I'm not scared of any of them, so I can't say how powerful the coercive control was. Idk what she was thinking. I'll say this much, if any of them had done to my son what they've done to me, I'd never bring him around them again, but getting hit a few times and either being a kid who can't fight back or being a grown man who chooses not to fight back, I haven't feared for my life as an adult around any of them, and she was abused through adolescence into and through her adulthood, so her danger was more everpresent, and she wasn't a man choosing not to hit his wife back, she was a wife being abused by the husband...I know if I wanted to hurt my wife, she wouldn't be able to stop me, so I empathize over that....idk. I tried to make it make sense, apply my own experiences as best I could, and Im still torn on whether she was just a victim in fear, or a knowing and willing accomplice in the murder of her daughters. We can't know. But I'm not averse to talking about it and some people seem to be. Victims come from all walks of life, and their experiences are just as varied. Idk if calling her out for her part is victim blaming...

  • @Rachell_H
    @Rachell_H 2 года назад +10

    Why are they making them wear masks while making statements? I have the volume up all the way and still can't decipher half of it.

    • @Rachell_H
      @Rachell_H 2 года назад +2

      What research???? Masks REALLY
      help don't they. 🤣
      You are probably one of those people that wear masks inside their own cars while driving by themselves. Or wearing a mask at the beach while you're swimming. 😆

    • @terrywickham781
      @terrywickham781 2 года назад

      @@Rachell_H Jesus Christ is also my Saviour 😍.
      People like Kayle are a bunch of sheeple, they just obey everything they are told without critical thinking, shm!🙄

  • @susangowin8763
    @susangowin8763 2 года назад +9

    I get he deserves a fair defense, but how do you explain the fact that the girls were found dead in his cab?

  • @naturalbeauty_abena1230
    @naturalbeauty_abena1230 2 года назад +4

    There is no honor in killing not alone killing your own children.

  • @donnalambert7674
    @donnalambert7674 2 года назад +12

    Honor killings are not legal here!

    • @danchinoloves7804
      @danchinoloves7804 2 года назад +2

      Where is its legal? Last time I looked honor killing isn't even legitimate in India or Pakistan where in England most of the perpetrators are from. Just wanted to know were your thoughts are from

    • @dewilew2137
      @dewilew2137 2 года назад

      @@danchinoloves7804 for as “illegal” as it is, these POS sure do get away with it quite often in their home country. As well as setting women on fire, and throwing acid in their faces if they reject a marriage proposal. Thousands of these men are not even prosecuted. That sure sounds like legality to me. 🤔

    • @annegreengables6367
      @annegreengables6367 2 года назад

      @@danchinoloves7804 You are mistaken. In Pakistan, if a brother honor kills his sister, the parents can forgive him and therefore he serves no jail time. In places like Jordan, an honor killer can serve 6 months or less. In many countries around the world, the community supports the honor killer.

    • @annegreengables6367
      @annegreengables6367 2 года назад

      @@danchinoloves7804 Legal or not, Pakistan estimates over a thousand honor killings a year go uninvestigated and unprosecuted.

  • @MurderDronesFan-456
    @MurderDronesFan-456 2 года назад +6

    I don't think this was an honour killing at all. He was trying to hide his abuse and after years of nothing being done about the abuse he finally reached a breaking point. RIP

  • @isabellind1292
    @isabellind1292 2 года назад +8

    I thought we'd packed in calling these "Honor Killings" and giving killers an out to blame their religion? Call it what it is, cold-blooded murder. PERIOD! They're referring to it like we've still living in the Dark Ages. How pathetic!

    • @crystalhanson1483
      @crystalhanson1483 2 года назад

      I CAN'T UNDERSTAND THIS-"SORRY"? ? I found a LONG Article about "Honor Killing" and I STILL can't Understand, except IT'S the Individual Person/Peoples. . .INTERPRETATIONS!
      NO mention of "honor killings" in Quran or Hadiths! ! "Honor Killings are a CULTURAL, not Religious issue. The long Article: "Preliminary Examination of so-called "Honor Killings" in Canada" CHECK; TABLE of Contents. CLICK these articles and Explains in easy understanding wording :) :) I CLICKED on (1st) 4-HISTORICAL CONTEXT-ORIGINS of "Honor Killings" "W O W"
      I have heard of most of them, but I didn't know they were included/known-as Honor Killings!
      Many years ago I was reading the modern day, bible; Jesus came upon a young female about to be stoned to death in the Square-Jesus was talking and the people fled, Jesus helped her to her feet and said to be on her way. I think it was somewhere in book of Leviticus, PUNISHMENTS; 1 to 9 Lashes. "LAW", no more than NINE lashes, the person would be cut to the bone with deep lashes, get infection/bleed to death. I looked up on internet what INSTRUMENT used in book of Leviticus, was used for the LASHES, OUCH :(
      QUOTE: TRADITIONAL INTERPRETATIONS of Islamic Law (or sharia), prescribe Severe Punishments of zina, or extramarital sex by BOTH MEN AND WOMEN. Not a new practice; it has been around since ANCIENT TIMES and is COMMON PRACTICE in other Religions/Cultures as well. Islamic Law premarital sex COULD BE PUNISHED by up to "100" Lashes, adultery is punishable by "Lethal Stoning"! The ACT must be attested by at least 4 Muslim Male Witnesses of Good Character. Punishments are RESERVED to the "LEGAL AUTHORITIES", and FALSE ACCUSATIONS are punished SEVERLY! INTERPRETATIONS of these RULES, VARY! Some Arabs has RIGHTS under BOTH TRADITIONS and SHARIA (by process of al-urf) "CONTERDICTS" views of vast majority of Islamic SCHOLARS (fuqaha). Iran condemned the practice as "un-Islamic". . . .though :( :( ***punishment under Iranian Law REMAINS LENIENT for those who commit "Honor Killings"! ! ! SEE? Why I can't understand? ? ? I feel like other people on here :) :) They come to United States of America OR Canada; YOU SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO LEARN THE "LAWS" of the NEW COUNTRY. . .these EMIGRANTS MADE "THEIR" "CHOICE" to live and work here. I am "sorry", for my personal opinion. I always wanted to "learn" about other peoples Culture(s), language, enough to say a few words-Greetings. "THIS" is out of my understanding :( :( I THOUGHT all Nations moved out of the Dark Ages and made Constitutions and Laws so all their citizens/people would be treated under Laws, more Equally?

    • @annegreengables6367
      @annegreengables6367 2 года назад

      The prosecution never used the words: honor killing, Muslim, or Islam. One witness said honor killing once. Even so, the defense will file an appeal based on Islamophobia.

    • @isabellind1292
      @isabellind1292 2 года назад

      @@annegreengables6367 Did I say the prosecution did? You must have missed the banner headlines across the name of this video and in the captions used in reference to the courtroom proceedings "The Honor Killing Trial"!

    • @annegreengables6367
      @annegreengables6367 2 года назад +1

      @@isabellind1292 I was expressing my disgust at the defense team. Their main tactic was to convince the jury that the investigators and prosecutors we're Islamophobic. His daughter's dying words were: "My dad shot me. I'm dying." Still, I will bet $100 that the defense files an appeal citing Islamophobia.

    • @isabellind1292
      @isabellind1292 2 года назад

      @@annegreengables6367 Oh. I haven't followed the trial. But in a civilized society we know damn well there's no honor in killing women. It's a completely misogynistic term. (I like A of GG).☺

  • @l.a.w.79
    @l.a.w.79 2 года назад +9

    Listening to this defense opening was the most creative concoction of a defense I have ever seen. If he is a public defender he sure did work for is money today lol

  • @natashaatsatt7801
    @natashaatsatt7801 2 года назад +2

    That defense attorney should be ashamed of himself!!!!!

  • @lisaendress724
    @lisaendress724 2 года назад +14

    There is no way i could be a defence attorney!!!

  • @ms.lethal614
    @ms.lethal614 2 года назад +3

    Take this trial at face value. There will only be a guilty verdict. The barbaric defense of an "honor killing" doesn't fly in our judicial system. Muslim or no Muslim. We don't kill teen children for dating.

    • @Honey_Daddy
      @Honey_Daddy 2 года назад

      Of course, that's a foregone conclusion. I respect that you felt the need to say it, though. Ive been saying everything that comes to mind about this just so I don't need to keep it in, so I feel it.

  • @brokenwingsmattia
    @brokenwingsmattia 2 года назад +4

    Justice for Amina and Sarah !!!!

  • @valerieosei5312
    @valerieosei5312 2 года назад +8

    See, this is danger of framing these as “honour killings” - not to say that the term is irrelevant, but it gives the defence an excuse for running the case rampant. Now we’re hearing a monologue about islamophobia instead of focusing on the point, which is cold blooded murder. I’ve been following this case since it first aired on americas most wanted. It’s amazing to see that the father will finally be tried for these crimes!! Really hoping justice is served here.

    • @annegreengables6367
      @annegreengables6367 2 года назад +1

      The prosecution never used these words: Muslim, Islam or honor killing. The defense use them frequently. The FBI agent (witness) said "honor killing" once. The prosecution was extremely wise, because the defense would only use islamophobia as the grounds for an appeal.

  • @thetrilogy80
    @thetrilogy80 2 года назад +13

    The mom kinda helped him.

    • @ellentellefsen993
      @ellentellefsen993 2 года назад +1

      Yes she did!

    • @AuntBee59
      @AuntBee59 2 года назад

      The Mom drove them to him and made them walk into the house. She knew they were about to be killed.

  • @paulineanderson3985
    @paulineanderson3985 2 года назад +16

    One minute in, question; is the mask really necessary, is this lawyer going for drama? Back to the vid now!

  • @AuntBee59
    @AuntBee59 2 года назад +5

    Is the defense actually trying to defend this man? OMG

    • @dawnatkinson7704
      @dawnatkinson7704 2 года назад +1

      Yes. Oh and when Sarah called 911 and said he dad shot her, according to the defence, she was 'hallucinating'. Talk about scraping the bottle of the barrel.

  • @stellab3828
    @stellab3828 2 года назад +5

    Sorry, Defense. I don't buy your arguments.

  • @Evanescence1231001
    @Evanescence1231001 2 года назад +7

    The defense has jackshit

  • @Heavyonkim
    @Heavyonkim 2 года назад +7

    I remember this so damn sad!

  • @stormyjade2907
    @stormyjade2907 2 года назад +1

    A dieing declaration means everything.

  • @cynthiasapos7236
    @cynthiasapos7236 2 года назад +4

    One other comment...If you are innocent why did it take This Long to find you and capture you???

  • @melissabrown8055
    @melissabrown8055 2 года назад +7

    What about the mothers charges

    • @annegreengables6367
      @annegreengables6367 2 года назад

      She was never and never will be charged. Every time I've seen the mother speak in public, she seems either stoned or developmentally disabled.

  • @dewilew2137
    @dewilew2137 2 года назад +6

    FRY HIM

  • @jessey141
    @jessey141 2 года назад +3

    Awful, awful to do that to anyone..let alone your children!

  • @dewilew2137
    @dewilew2137 2 года назад +5

    I can’t even listen to this BS defense.

  • @tonymoneybagg2280
    @tonymoneybagg2280 2 года назад +3

    My heart ❤️ gos out to the family 💯

  • @lizlizzy103
    @lizlizzy103 2 года назад +1

    That opening is disgusting.

  • @Ohsnap444
    @Ohsnap444 2 года назад +3

    I know pretty much NOTHING about this case.. with that said, both the prosecution and the defense had me going. This will be an entertaining trial forsure.

  • @janieanderson7983
    @janieanderson7983 2 года назад +4

    He killed his daughters stop blaming others

  • @Lilothestitch
    @Lilothestitch 6 месяцев назад

    There is no honor in killing.

  • @AngeloPerfili
    @AngeloPerfili 2 года назад +3

    the indefensible open was pathetic....💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩

  • @helenareyes6084
    @helenareyes6084 2 года назад +3

    I know is their job but I won’t be able to bring food to my house 🏡 by defending such an evil 😈.
    Besides that he should take out the mask 😷 at least in the opening so we can UNDeRSTaND HIm!!! Judge…. Plis!!!

  • @rachelcampbell4719
    @rachelcampbell4719 2 года назад +4

    Really he killed his daughter's they got the last word thank god end of

  • @pumalogo204
    @pumalogo204 2 года назад +9

    who cares if these are beautiful or not...,,life is life regardless how people look....it's funny when these kinds of people come to this country...they think they can do what ever they want,,,but if the role was reversed...ohhhh watch out !!!! ....remember these people say their religion is a peaceful one...just sickening...C'mon man

    • @dewilew2137
      @dewilew2137 2 года назад

      @@valerierodger7700 there sure do seem to be a lot of abusive POS males from that particular religion though. Curious, isn’t it? 🤔
      I’m not claiming that Christianity is any better, so you can’t accuse me of any bias. ALL religion is cancer, Islam just happens to be the most cancerous in this day.

    • @citizendame6329
      @citizendame6329 2 года назад +4

      @@valerierodger7700 listen, if the Quran tells them they're expected to do certain things, then it IS ISLAM. Open your eyes.

    • @citizendame6329
      @citizendame6329 2 года назад

      @@valerierodger7700 did you know that the Quran tells them that they have the right to do as they please with any woman who isn't Muslim? Rape, murder. Anything. It also tells them they should invade other lands and do anything they can to convert them to Islam. Aka murder, rape, lying, etc. They stone Muslim women for being raped by family members and coming forward with it, they kill homosexuals publicly in the streets. Tell me they're the religion of peace and explain the Quran. Please. I'd love to hear it.

  • @elainespencer5548
    @elainespencer5548 2 года назад +4

    What is with the Masks???

    • @citizendame6329
      @citizendame6329 2 года назад +2

      Here in NJ/NY we are still wearing them. And in a court room they don't want anyone infecting a prisoner with covid who could then infect an entire prison. What's so hard to understand???

  • @melanieharvey4537
    @melanieharvey4537 2 года назад +1

    Your hair looks wonderful ted

  • @daniellemayhew1010
    @daniellemayhew1010 2 года назад

    He should get the chair

  • @jonicaleigh1533
    @jonicaleigh1533 2 года назад

    The plaintiffs attorney has attitude and is going to lose the case due to her attitude. The judge is going to react to that attitude like she did during the objection.

  • @ninachkah13
    @ninachkah13 Год назад

    Grasping at straws