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Truman's Argumentative Essay

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On September 30, 2012, Heidy Truman, 25, and her husband, Conrad Truman, 31, were at their estate in Orem drinking shots of Maker’s Mark whiskey and watching television when Heidy left to go take a bath. That night, Heidy Truman’s naked body was found, inflicted by a single fatal shot to the head inside their Orem home in Utah. As a response, Conrad Truman called 911 in what was described by the dispatch officer, Marie Patten, as “hysterical, threating call that was unique in her line of work”. Upon entering the property, the Orem police officers found Heidy Truman’s blood spread throughout the living room, bathroom, bedroom, property entrance, as well as on Conrad Truman himself. Conrad Truman’s erratic behavior was later illustrated through …show more content…

The evidentiary evidence in the second trial, on February 2, 2017, included the original evidence from the first trial, but also included a correction of the hallway measurement and the correct ruling of Heidy’s death from “homicide” to “undetermined”. The correct measurements of the hallway strengthened the plausibility of the defense’s suicide argument more likely, considering how far down the hallway Heidy Truman’s body was found after being shot. The prosecutors defended their argument using the recording of Conrad Truman’s 911 with Patten, where he was “yelling obscenities” and “screaming inaudibly”. Responding officers, Utah County Deputy Attorney Sam Pead and Officer Christian Elias were met with the same hostility and threats from Conrad Truman as he provided a statement that “verbally manipulate[d] the crime scene”. Conrad Truman’s defense, Ann Tailanfeferro, once again defended her client against this accusation by stating that her client was distressed after finding his wife’s dead body. During this trial, Leis, the state medical examiner admitted that initially the Heidy Truman’s death was ruled as undetermined, but after meeting with the police and prosecutors he changed the ruling of her death to homicide, even though forensic evidence cannot differentiate between homicide and suicide. After eight hours of deliberation Conrad Truman was acquitted when the jury delivered a not guilty

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