NY Attorney David Schwartz Talking About Rex Heuermann's Court Appearance on @CBSNewYork

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the giggle beach murder suspect is due
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in court today where he's expected to be
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hit with a fourth murder charge Rex hman
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has already been charged with killing
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three women whose bodies were found on
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gilgal beach back in 2010 authorities
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have said hman is also the prime suspect
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in the killing of a fourth woman he is
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pleaded not guilty and we are going to
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dive into this a little more joining us
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now is New York criminal defense
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attorney and former prosecutor David
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Schwarz to help put these new
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developments into perspective welcome
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thanks so much for joining us thanks for
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having me so let's get right into it h
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what's expected to happen today can you
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walk us through the timeline of events
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sure uh you know today is not going to
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be that that big of a deal what they're
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going to do is they're going to bring hu
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uh hman into court uh this morning uh
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hman is going to be uh arranged on the
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fourth indictment uh he will probably
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wave the reading of that indictment so
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the whole indictment won't be read to
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the court uh H hurman will uh plead not
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guilty and uh baale will remain uh with
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with no bail conditions and he'll be
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remanded to the uh suffi County prison
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so that that's really all that's going
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to happen this morning uh the da may
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give some facts in court I know the I
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Know da Tierney is going to have a press
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conference afterwards to talk about the
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fourth uh Gilgo murder victim and David
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the last time we heard from
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investigators we were told that this
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case was quote winding down can you take
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us behind the scenes uh what has been
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happening since then right well it was
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the investigation for the first three so
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so humman was uh indicted and remanded
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for the first three murders they want
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they they made the Strategic decision to
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make the arrest at that moment in time
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because they were already surveilling
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him for about a year and uh they they
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just didn't want anything to go wrong so
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they made that arrest and in the
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meantime they were investigating the
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fourth murder and they were uh waiting
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for the uh mitochondrial DNA analysis on
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the fourth murder and this is a
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scientific case this is a DNA case and
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that's what da tyranny did there were no
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eyewitnesses to this case so it's a
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circumstantial case plus scientific
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evidence okay so if Rex hman is indeed
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charged with a fourth murder would that
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change the case how would it change the
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case well it it it makes the case you
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know you have to prove each and every
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element of each and every crime on each
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and every murder so so it it makes the
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case more complicated but actually you
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know when you're when you're trying a
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serial killer it it actually tightens up
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the case in certain ways but in other
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ways you still have to prove the
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scientific evidence DNA is not a layup
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everybody thinks DNA is a layup it's not
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a layup because they didn't use nuclear
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DNA which uh specifically points to a
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particular person they used
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mitochondrial da because DNA because of
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13 years later all this time went by
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which excludes
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99.6% of the population so it's
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scientific evidence plus circumstantial
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evidence they have his truck they have
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phone records they have uh all Ty all
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types of other evidence that they're
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going to piece this case together so I
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expect this case to be a complicated
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case and I expect to last a a good
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amount of time a long time all right
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David thank you so much for your
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insights David Schwarz New York criminal
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defense attorney former prosecutor
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thanks for being here this morning thank
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you