Brendan Banfield's defense pushed back on au pair Juliana Peres Magalhaes' narrative of murder conspiracy and painted her as desperate to get out of jail during cross examination Wednesday.
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Au pair Juliana Peres Magalhaes took the stand Tuesday afternoon and detailed the elaborate plot that she claims Brendan Banfield came up with to brutally murder his wife and a stranger.

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Prosecutors laid out the conspiracy they believe #BrendanBanfield played out in his home nearly three years ago in their opening statements Tuesday. He’s accused of killing his wife and a stranger with the family’s au pair.

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Opening statements begin today in the trial of Brendan Banfield, the former IRS agent accused of killing his wife and a stranger with his family’s au pair. Catch up on the case here:
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An extraordinarily embarrassing case for the line prosecutors forced to pursue it, who spent two weeks getting yelled at from the bench over missing/incomplete evidence and evasive witnesses -- including at least one whose testimony was flatly contradicted by video evidence.

NOW: Three grand juries declined to indict Sidney Reid, and today a petit jury came to the same conclusion in less than 2 hours -- finding her NOT GUILTY of assaulting an FBI agent during an ICE arrest. (via @sophrosenthal) www.wusa9.com/article/news...

BREAKING: Federal prosecutors in D.C. have filed two criminal counts against Jan Carey, the NC veteran arrested for burning a flag in protest outside the White House this week. w/ @sophrosenthal www.wusa9.com/article/news...

MORE: Judge Howell calls the Trump admnistration's attempted takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace a "gross usurpation of power.

In an order today, she says that takeover is now "null and void." (via my colleague @sophierosenthal.bsky.social) www.wusa9.com/article/news...