Famed sex therapist Amie Harwick was found outside of her Hollywood Hills home struggling to hold onto life after allegedly being thrown off of a third-story balcony in 2020. Harwick died at a hospital shortly after the fall from blunt force injuries to her head and torso, along with evidence of strangulation. Authorities quickly zeroed in on her ex-boyfriend, Gareth Pursehouse, who had previous restraining orders filed against him by Harwick and was described as a “stalker” by many of the doctor’s friends. Pursehouse now faces trial in a California courtroom for Harwick’s murder.
Pursehouse’s defense said the defendant admitted to breaking into Harwick’s home but did not murder her. They are seeking a not guilty verdict on the murder charge and asking for a lesser charge.
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Show us the prosecution closing not staring at the defendant please…Im not going to watch any more trials on this channel if its only about the defendant…
Boo f###### whooo.
Amie had no obligation to sooth his aching heart or offer him explanation why she left him or why they cant be together.
He needs to man up and take responsibility for his actions.
He had plenty of time to change his mind about that decision to end her life. You cant take that back… you dont get a do over.
The bottom line is that gareth actions that night lead to amies death.
For that he has to pay for his crime.
What he really needed was to recognize he needed therapy to talk about it but not with amie.
Obiviously he was unraveling… and desparate to reinsert himself in her life.
Whethet he changed from that person he was or not which i highly doubt matters little because amie no longer wanted him in her life and he dont respect those boundaries thst she had every right to set and forcefully continually tried to force communication between amie and himself.
She was done and needed no more clarification of why or how they were not together.
She did see how dangerous he was and cut him off.
Thats called getting you life back moving on with our own life.
And gareth just cannot accept it.
And his rage grows and accumulated in this planned malicious murder of someone he claims to love.
That is not love its pure hate in rejection which he couldnt take.
Gareth is exactly were he needs to be.
He will live the rest of his life in 5 by 5.
Justice for amie 😢 such a wonderful caring woman who by chance crossed paths went thr wrong man.❤
No way she jumped from 3 floors up or scaled that building.
You cant make me believe that in a zillion years.
That doesn't explain why he was carrying it around in amies home? Whst diff does it make how old it was. And it doesnt explain why he was wearing gloves? What purpose does he have bringing it there?
ROFL so the defense is that Gareth just came over to her house, waited there for 2-3 hours in the dark corner for her, with cloves on and a deadly weapon, and he just wanted to talk. But "Amie preeminently attacked Gareth to subdue him because she was afraid of him" "without an opportunity to why he came, she attacked him", see it was her fault. But Gareth had "any intentions to harm her". No, see, he just invaded her home, waited there for 2-3 hours in the dark, with gloves on and with a deadly weapon. Just to "talk".
Is it normal for at judge to call for a break during closing arguments? It seems a bit weird to me.
How long take it the foreman to fill out the 3 formulars? 3 min.?
What would the defence lawyer have in her vinyl collection? "Crisis….. What Crisis?"
poor gareth has no pencil….. skipping the of defense closing
He sounds really good about what he did to her. He hated her so much he’s ok about life in prison as long as she’s not alive. He’s where he needs to be.
Wow, I know she could not imagine that she was sleeping with someone that was going to killer. This is a crazy case like all the rest.
It's such a horrific story. There has to be a better justice system out there than what is inadequately offered by restraining orders, that eventually expire. It is some comfort that Aime's words, through her personal emails, come back (like a tell-tale heart) from the grave to finally convict her accuser.
The defense closing was full of irrelevant things. A whole bunch of nonsense.
"Why wouldn't that anger surfaced years ago when he got a restraining order against him?" this lawyer must cry herself to sleep
Oh, he was sad. See, I thought he was a bad guy for slaughtering her. My bad.
This guys thinks he is so smart and God’s gift to women. Hardly! He could not handle a woman saying no so he killed her. He pled not guilty because again he thought he was so smart he would fool the jury. Wrong again. Not so smart after all. He has really let himself go perhaps to turnoff other convicts when he goes into general population? Not to worry. They like the pillsbury dough boy. Enjoy prison.
Defense attorney's voice is as annoying as her closing.
your hair won't save you this time! 🤪
Defending the indefensible
the defense used in this case makes me so angry, how dare he!
He just needs to be in prison with scott peterson
Well , folks hes a batterer its just his logics
Whats the judges name? I think hes great, now i want to watch his other cases!
boohoo..he is in isolation GOOD!…and he lost alot of money…GOOD… AMIE isn't breathing no more and we are to feel sorry for him in his current poor $$ Isolated self…. uhm…NOOOOOO! NEVER. 3:19:44
I found myself quoting Junkyard Willie every time the defense attorneys talked and — while speeding through their jive – I remember thinking "ooh I had about ENOUGH OF THIIIIS!!!!"
3:06:07 whatever…. HE is begging her to not vanish on him? Pathetic bum. I wonder if he even gave herrrr a chance to beg FOR HER LIFE?! He clearly had NO mercy. Big ol murderous baby!
That defense attorney reading her clients texts out loud just made him look even more insane 😂
Tom Farrell (from chat): "a child in a man's body". ME: no, he's a DEMON in a man's body. That he is ….a demon possessed man.
2:59:15 to chat: Lambof God says, "I thought vanilla was supposed to calm you down". ME: no, I believe you may be mistaking it for LAVENDER
Provocation? Are you kidding!
I pray to God this guy never sees the light of day. He's a really sick human being. He waited like four hours for her to arrive home. I wonder what he did in there. Michael the neighbor heard something fall but thought the cat knocked something over. This guy is a psychopath. He was jealous of Amie. Hey success as a doctor. The fact that he once had this beautiful girl and destroyed their relationship. Then thinks he's the victim! Really. Talk about delusional thought patterns. He had zero remorse. That smirk always looks like he's proud of himself. He's a legend in his own mind, as per his visit in jail from his friends. He things people will want memorabelia junk he owns like some big notorious killer. Talk about God complex. That poor, petite little woman couldn't defend herself against that 6ft4 oaf! He's disgusting. I pray the jury has him locked up for life!! I hope he never gets out of prison. I hope he has a rotten time in prison as well so he never forgets what he did to put himself in there!
What a b**ch that defense attorney is she’s blaming Aimee as well as his roommate Michael
“Emotional Crisis” is not an excuse! Horrible closing by the defense.
Poor pity that POS he doesn’t have a pencil to write his horrible jokes. He’s a heartless selfish POD.
Poor guy didn’t even get a pencil? And had to wear a tarp? Boo boo. Cry me a river. He murdered someone without a second thought. He deserves life behind bars and nothing less.