“Why was Vincent Brothers able to give the same kind of attention to his own daughter Margaret...why did Mr. brothers attend his niece Tanya’s eighth grade graduation and not his own daughter’s,” Green said.

“It was that they only know Vincent Brothers in a professional capacity, none of them, not one of them knew him. This man did not have any friends...If the truth be told nobody knew him. The co-workers testimony mirrored that of the women he slept with...he really had no friends,”

Green said this was the same as his childhood friends. “That he was studious, polite, shy, athletic, but not one of them had any contact with him in adulthood...they came here to stand up and testify from memory...the boy that these men described is not the same man you’ve seen and heard from in this courtroom the man who testified in this courtroom...They don’t want to believe he could have changed....but each and every one of you know better and you said so in your verdict.”

“Would you expect them to believe that someone they know and liked 25 years ago would would do something like this?” Green told the jurors. “Who would believe that someone they know is capable of what happened in this face, capable of killing their entire family.”

“They did not see him often and when they did there is no evidence their relationship is close,” Green said, speaking so quietly, her voice was at times inaudible from the audience.

“Is any of that enough to cause you to return a verdict of life...does any of what they said mitigate waht he did. Does anything they said make you think Brothers deserves to spend the rest of his life eating, drinking, laughing,”

“The boy who did that 30 years ago, that person does not exist any more, you know that,” Green said. “The man you see before you is the face of evil. There is no sugarcoating that. Is there anything about what the defendant’s 25 witnesses offered that cause you to say this is an extenuating circumstance that justifies voting for life,”

“My answer is no, never,” Green said.

“Vincent Brothers took an oath to tell the truth and he looked you in the eye and he lied” Green said. “He made up a story that he was in Columbus Ohio when he was in (California) killing his family.”

“When Mr. Bryan argues lingering doubt, you remember that he lied,”

Green said Brothers’ demeanor on the stand will erase any lingering doubt.

Green shows the jurors the video of the crime scene the day the Harper family was found.

The courtroom stood still as Green played the video that panned past the bodies and through the house.

“When Mr. Bryan gets up here....In a loving home often pictures are displayed on the wall...when Mr. Bryan brings up all these pictures the defendant had just remember the photos he had were not out, were not displayed...They were in a bin on the floor in that apartment.”

Green told the jurors that one juror said life in prison gives you time to take care of your soul.

“I think while that may be true as to some people...it is not true of Vincent Brothers...your conscience is a part of your soul and you can’t take care of your sould if you don’t have a conscience.

“When Vincent Brothers walked in that room with the intent of killing his entire family that is what he saw was three sleeping children,”

Green displays once again the photo montage of the family.

“In the space of an afternoon the lives of three children were brought to an end...the hopes and dreams of the people they would become were gone,”

“If you don’t believes these crimes impacted the community...you need only look at that photo and the testimony of Vincent Brothers who said more than 2,000 people attended that memorial,” Green said.

Bryan will ask you “to show Vincent brothers mercy and to allow him the rest of his life behind bars. I have heard it said that justice is getting what you deserve and mercy is getting what you don’t deserve. Vincent Brothers deserves as much mercy as he showed his victims and that is none,” Green said.

“If not the death penalty for this case than which case, if not the death penalty for these victims, for which victims, if not the death penalty for Vincent Brothers,”

“In the killing of these women and these children...I will not stand up here and talk about how many times they are shot because I know you know...Only the most soulless coward could commit crimes such as these. Are there any more innocent victims,”

Green said that if they don’t vote for the death penalty they will be sending a message to the community that this is tollerated.