Break
I wish I had something to tell you. The jurors are taking the afternoon break. After 15 minutes, they will begin deliberation again. I wonder if we will have a verdict today. I want to know something. Anything. Now, the jurors can decide not guilty or guilty, or they can be split and it can be a hung jury. Still waiting... I will write when either the red light comes on or it's 5 p.m. I'm going back to waiting.
posted by THE HICKORY DAILY RECORD at at
3:47 PM
16 Comments:
well, that is almost over i would like to thank you for a job well done, and would really like to know what you think, since you did hear it all guilty or not?
Here are the elements of first degree murder and each one must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt to convict--Lets hear some of your answers to these four elements.
The defendant is charged in [Count _______ of] the indictment with murder in the first degree in violation of Section 1111 of Title 18 of the United States Code. In order for the defendant to be found guilty of that charge, the government must prove each of the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
First, the defendant unlawfully killed [victim];
Second, the defendant killed [victim] with malice aforethought;
Third, the killing was premeditated; and
Fourth, the killing occurred at [location stated in indictment].
To kill with malice aforethought means to kill either deliberately and intentionally or recklessly with extreme disregard for human life.
Premeditation means with planning or deliberation. The amount of time needed for premeditation of a killing depends on the person and the circumstances. It must be long enough, after forming the intent to kill, for the killer to have been fully conscious of the intent and to have considered the killing.
Well here’s what really happened:
On the morning of the 29th, Emily went to run her errands; she followed Jerry down the road on the tractor and proceeded to the PD store in Sawmills. She next went to Sawmills Hardware and then on to Martian Marietta for Gravel. After leaving Martian Marietta she came back up the loop toward Connelly springs road. She saw the man with the mullet haircut thumbing for a ride. She stopped and picked him up. They stopped at the Holliday to go where they were seen. After leaving and heading toward Baton the mullet man produced a gun and Ordered Emily to take him to Duncan, SC where he met a second man driving the Brown Van. They took her to the near by junk yard and under the cover of all the noise killed her and put her in the tool box. On the way out they ran over something and cut the tire on the truck so they abandoned it in the motel parking lot. They left in the Brown Van and make the call from Texas about her location.
They stole the $2000.00 she had on her (The money). The Junk yard had John deer Tractor equipment (Paint Chips)
They might have stayed overnight in the motel and left her glasses witch fell while they put her in the tool box.
My Story is just as good as the prosecution; I don’t think he did it.
Thanks for keepting us updated J.M.
Great Job!!
Maybe Firefox should apply at the CCSD
Way to go Firefox! You just created doubt in what the prosecution was trying to prove. The problem is that there are people on here that are in support of both sides. You cannot blame them but they truly cannot form an independent opinion becuase they are attached to one side or the other. Not everyone by no means.
cain't beleave so many witch hunters in these blogs that would over look peoples testomny the ladies at motel with no intrest in case just telling what they seen med ex about time of death professer from tenn about her body saying 24 to 48 hours the prosicution has showed no real evidence none what so ever in my opion
Surprised that Judge Cayer allowed Bellas to talk about pickup being put on a trailer to SC. No testimony in trial to that effect.
Verdict will come down Friday. Juries will resolve their differences rather than return on Monday.
Why was the question never asked, where was any blood in the tool box? Who would benefit Emily's death other than Jerry????
I agree with alot of you. I dont believe that he did it.
the judge did not want Jerry to go free .So he rather let someone else set him free.
In response to ronniechurch, That is not true. No Trial Judge would want his Jury and Case overturned by an appeals court. That would look bad on his record. He is doing what he should and adhering to the laws of judicial prudence and letting the Jury decide this mans fate.
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Some of you are basing your "verdict" on the fact that the police arrested Jerry for the crime...therefore he must be guilty. Although, as has been pointed out, the evidence, what there is of it, has been bungled, or ignored, from day one. I'm far from being a Columbo/Matlock type, and Lord knows I have nothing on Perry Mason or Monk, but....Personally, I think he's innocent. What did it for me, among other things, is/was the hairdresser's testimony. The hairdresser who did her hair on the day she and Jerry were s'pose to go out for dinner, testified it was darker, when she prepared her for the funeral...why would her killer(s) bother to change her haircolor? That's just not something a man would think to do, I don't think....especially one, or more, who was plannin' her death...and even less of a chace of it happening, if her death was "an accident". For that matter, why would she ask/pay her hairdresser to do one thing, then turn around and change it, shortly after....unless she had pre-planned her own "death"? (cut out...ran off, adios Jerry and Sawmills) The store employee saw her dressed up, but she was found wearing the clothes she had worn when she left with Jerry. Again, as with the hair, a man doesn't notice what a woman wears, especially if it's work clothes. There was only the "witness" who knew what she was wearing at that time...another man. I have to ask myself, and you, would he have a reason to pay particular attention to what she was wearing...unless? The phone records would be non-existant also, with a pay-as-you-go phone....or a card. She met with foul play during her quest to leave, I agree....but it wasn't Jerry...Think about it....
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