S4 E7: Swipe Right on the Devil, Part 2

Military defense attorney Jocelyn Stewart finishes her breakdown of Hulu's three-part docuseries Swipe Right on the Devil, about the 2017 killing of Sydney Loofe in Nebraska. She walks through the mistakes by Aubrey Trail and Bailey Boswell that investigators used to build the case, from a burner phone and a Tinder account left on during the drive to dispose of evidence, to Facebook videos, coded jail notes and a cipher that was never destroyed.

She explains the false exculpatory evidence instruction, why deleting a phone can be used as consciousness of guilt, what her research found about deals for the women who testified, Trail's post-conviction filings, Boswell's appeal over the witchcraft evidence under Rule 404(b), and a judge's lesson on mitigation evidence: "What is the therefore?"

CBS News and NBC News have reported on the Sydney Loofe murder case.

Her law firm's website explains how a service member can speak to the sentencing authority at a court-martial in its guide to unsworn statements at court-martial sentencing.

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