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Kelsey Fitzsimmons Trial Day 3: Kelsey Fitzsimmons — Kelsey Takes the Stand

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The questioning starts with who had come to the house the day before. She corrects the name and says she was closer with Houston. He was a work friend. He came to her engagement party. He was invited to her wedding. They have the same type of dog, and she thinks the dogs may have met before. The testimony then moves to the people at her front door. She says she opened it and Lieutenant Daly immediately put his foot on her front porch. They did not just walk in. They said they needed to come inside. She turned around and walked back into the house with Kaden. The others followed. Once everyone was in the living room, Daly asked her to put Kaden in his car seat. She notes that people have called it a rocker, but it was his car seat. She was in the middle of feeding him. When she set him down, he was crying. She says she was not going to stop holding her son just because of whatever they had brought. So she picked him back up and kept him on her lap while she opened the envelope. That is when Daly told her Justin had filed a restraining order against her.

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A tense, close-up account where a domestic scene turns into part of the legal record.

A tense domestic scene sits at the center here: police at the door, a baby in her arms, a restraining order being handed over in real time. The episode works because it stays close to the moment and lets the conversation carry the weight.

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You want the moment a restraining order lands while a baby is crying.

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