BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — Megan Boswell’s defense scored a victory Thursday morning in her murder trial as Judge Jim Goodwin ruled they can cross-examine an investigator about an interview that saw Boswell admit to her baby Evelyn being dead 10 days before Evelyn’s body was found.

It’s thrown an early wrinkle into Boswell’s murder trial: Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) agent Brian Fraley’s on-the-stand comments about the Feb. 25, 2020 interview.

Prosecutor William Harper wanted that interview and any discussion of it to be out of bounds. Defense attorney Gene Scott wanted to be able to cross-examine Fraley about it to show jurors relevant portions of it. Goodwin reviewed the entire two-hour video late Wednesday before coming down on Scott’s side.

“I have to view the fairness of letting just part of the interview in versus letting the whole interview in,” Goodwin said.

Harper argued that allowing cross-examination or airing of parts of the interview would amount to hearsay evidence. The state dropped its count related to that interview — a charge that Boswell falsely reported when she told investigators Feb. 25, 2020 that 13-month-old Evelyn died when she or her then-boyfriend Hunter Wood rolled over onto her while sleeping.

Scott had said that since Fraley described how Boswell told investigators she knew Evelyn was dead and described the clothes she was wearing and the blanket she was wrapped in, preventing further unpacking of that interview would violate “fundamental fairness.”

Outside the courtroom Wednesday afternoon, Scott told News Channel 11, “I want jurors to hear the video, because it tells her side of what happened.”

Even though Harper had argued, successfully, that he had not led Fraley directly into sharing his account of the interview, Goodwin said case law is clear: “Examination of a witness by a party is tantamount to introduction (of evidence).”

He told Scott, “when you cross-examine Special Agent Fraley you’re allowed to play that video to comply with the rule of completeness.”

Jurors will be allowed to view two segments of the video that run a total of roughly 34 minutes.

Scott said outside the courtroom that since jurors had heard Fraley’s brief version of what the interview yielded, “it’s my position that should be put in context.”

“He put in part of a confession. ‘The baby is dead.’ They’re trying to use that to blame her that the baby’s dead. There’s a long video. We just want the jury to see it … I think it explains her side of the story pretty accurately.”