Defense attorney Anthony Bryan begins his closing arguments.

“Naturally I disagree with the verdict you reach. My opinion doesn’t mean anything,” Bryan said.

“There is anything thing that you can consider and that is lingering doubt,” Bryan said.

Bryan reminds the jurors that they all said they could consider life in prison even if Brothers were convicted of the murders.

Bryan, who is known for his loud arguments, is speaking so quietly that he can barely be heard.

“I think one of the things that shows the extreme weakness of the prosecution’s penalty phase case is, I want you to look at the hospital records,” Bryan said. “See if there is anything there that resembles the description as described by Ms. Kern,” Bryan said.

“We have another witness to that, Keith Powell,” Bryan said. “This is a department head at Cal State Bakersfield, he has no reason to lie.”

“There was quite a bit of contact with Margaret,” Bryan said. “It is not uncommon in this society that the contact with a child is limited by the fact that the parents no longer get along.”

“The prosecutor wants you to believe that the defendant should receive among other reasons, because of his contact with (Shann Kern),”

Bryan shows an article The Californian wrote about Brothers because of his participation in the community.

Bryan reminded the jurors that Brothers was an “outstanding” teacher and vice-principal.

“One of the defendant’s abilities is his ability to get along with others,” Bryan said.

“You do not complete high school and college and graduate school and a complete tour with the army and with the marines if you cannot get along well with others,”

“If Mr. Calloway saw Mr. Brothers that weekend at the house is it at all possible to believe that he had done what she says he did,” Bryan said.

“I know you’ve determined otherwise but I must argue lingering doubt, I think that is an enormous amount of doubt,” Bryan said.

“You have three inherintly incredible...clay of the worst sort,” Bryan said.

Bryan said that every time a bug was found, their ranges expanded.

The prosecution bug expert said bugs she would expect to see were not there, Bryan said, if the trip west were made.

“Dr. Kimsey said there should have been white butterflies, they weren’t there,” Bryan said.

“Try driving across the west in the middle of the summer without getting those things on your car and in the air intake system.