As stated above, and as detailed by counsel for defendant 1 in her summaries (pp. 35-46), in the various statements of defendant 2, many contradictions were found and many lies were found. However, one can find a common denominator in all the contradictions and lies in his statements, and that is that he worked with all his might to place all the blame for the incident on Defendant 1, both with regard to the planning and with regard to the execution, in an attempt to extricate himself completely from responsibility; And whenever he realized during the interrogations that the things he gave were getting him in trouble as well, he changed his version and got involved in more lies. Thus, although he gave a consistent version regarding the existence of prior planning (which he charged only to defendant 1), he contradicted himself every time he realized that his awareness of the planning complicates him as a full partner in the entire event; Thus, after describing the beatings that he himself had inflicted on the deceased, when he understood the meaning of his words, he tried to reduce his part in the beatings, claiming that by the time he struck the deceased he was already dead, or he justified the beatings by fear of the deceased or of defendant 1; Accordingly, his version of the threats allegedly made by defendant 1 even developed, and turned from threats after the incident to threats during it. In addition, Defendant 2 became involved in many lies when he tried to distance himself from any contact with the objects taken from the deceased, especially the pistol (although his fingerprints were found on the cartridge), or from involvement in the drug deal.
From all of the above, it emerges that even with regard to the statements of defendant 2, it is possible to locate the core of the truth and distill it from them, especially with regard to those details in his statements that could incriminate himself in the incident, details about which there was no reason for him to lie in the interrogations, and he did not even give any reasonable explanation for them.