The Dress He Bought Three Days Early
The prosecutor played that sequence for the jury twice.
The second time she played it, she did nothing else — no narration, no pointer.
She simply set the clock running on the screen for the four minutes and forty seconds that Nathan Brooks was in his office with the door closed while his wife lay in the next room, and she stood there and let a courtroom sit through it in real time.
Several jurors were reported to have looked away.
The defense argued panic.
They argued that a man who finds his wife unresponsive does not behave rationally, that he may have gone to look for a phone, that four minutes is nothing.