his trial started in september of 2012. >> all rise. >> prosecutor jesse evans was there for the states case, ladies and gentlemen, is about obsession, revenge. >> evans argued that daker was a violent stalker and that his obsession with one woman led to the death of another. >> you can't get inside the mind of a psycho path and figure out why they would kill. >> evans said daker had left a trail of destruction and those critical hairs. >> the cold case solved by advances in dna technology proved positive that waseem daker is the man. >> defending wa seem daker is waseem daker. >> i want to point out three principles of law i want to give you. >> before he took over his own case he had been represented by an experienced team, michael and jason treadway. they were still advising him. >> they had no case without those hairs. that's why they didn't go forward initially. they didn't have a case. and they knew it. >> their advice to daker, focus on those hairs and don't obsess about lottie. >> this case had to be defended by attacking the science of the state's case. >> but daker couldn't s

this from the treasury department, jesse liu submitting her resignation to the treasury department yesterday. cnn is learning our evan liu caught up in the prosecution of the roger stone case, which was her prior position, correct, so now she's stepping down. >> reporter: that's right, jim. she was supposed to be today actually supposed to be before the senate for this new position at the treasury department. and obviously now the fact that the president has pulled her nomination, this is the second nomination that she had to withdraw from. she is now officially submitted her resignation, she did so yesterday, to the treasury department, and that was -- that resignation was accepted according to an administration official we talked to kaitlan collins at the white house. look, i think it is very clear that she needed to do this, given the fact that it is now twice that she failed to win these two nominations. >> yeah. evan, thank you very much, this just crossed, we'll try to get more info when we can. we'll be right back. i need a ride. here hold this. follow that spud. [ tires screech ] the big idaho potato truck is