The Devil on Trial | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Explore the first – and only – time “demonic possession” has officially been used as a defense in a U.S. murder  | dG1fN1lQb3lvQ1I5SzQ

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00:00 When I was 11, he was possessed by the devil.

00:07 A bizarre murder trial gets underway tomorrow.

00:09 The devil made me do it.

00:12 I said, "Why am I here?"

00:15 And he said, "Well, you just killed your friend."

00:16 The nature of our defense has never been used in the United States, is demonic possession.

00:23 But the tale really begins at the end of this driveway, where the Brookfield couple, whose

00:28 11-year-old son began acting strangely.

00:36 You can feel something watching you.

00:40 We didn't believe him at first.

00:45 David said this entity spoke.

00:48 He told David he wants his soul today.

00:55 Ladies and gentlemen, the ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren.

01:03 Ed Warren said, "You're going to definitely need an exorcism."

01:05 We thought we were going to have a new start, and it didn't work out that way.

01:14 He said, "There's no way I did this.

01:16 You got the wrong person."

01:18 He goes, "No, he's dead, and you killed him."

01:21 The Warrens argue it was the demonic influence now inside Johnson that drove him to kill.

01:32 I knew right away Barney was possessed by the devil.

01:36 There was a stabbing.

01:37 This is an open-shut case.

01:39 All this story, you want to know who's telling the truth.

01:47 What do you say to somebody who says, "I just don't believe any of this"?

01:54 Well, I would hope you weren't on the jury.

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