The day is over with no verdict
Well, it is 5 p.m. and no word from the jury. I guess we will be back tomorrow morning. Getting nearly 190 pieces of evidence before lunch, I guess they are still going through it all. I wonder what will happen tomorrow. No need to speculate. All we can do is wait.
Jerry calmly walked into the courtroom. Earlier he lost his tie, but since has it back on. I think they found a book for him to read. It's another night in jail, waiting to find out if he will spend the rest of his life in jail or not. It's another night in North Carolina for Emily's family.
I will be back in the morning, folks. Will tomorrow be the big day?
Jerry calmly walked into the courtroom. Earlier he lost his tie, but since has it back on. I think they found a book for him to read. It's another night in jail, waiting to find out if he will spend the rest of his life in jail or not. It's another night in North Carolina for Emily's family.
I will be back in the morning, folks. Will tomorrow be the big day?
posted by THE HICKORY DAILY RECORD at at
4:57 PM
18 Comments:
Why are you not takeing about the case?
oh, what suspense!
Looks like a hung jury--maybe?
What will happen if there is a hung jury? Will the prosecutor continue to look for the killer or more evidence against Jerry? Will they legally be allowed to show more incriminating evidence of any kind? Or will they have to start looking somewhere else? Someone should pay for her death. If it isn't Jerry, then who did kill her? Is there a disgruntled lover, or were the farm help given money to kill her and run back to Texas. Were they paid off not to tell? Is there someone else involved in her killing? What do you all think?
If there is a hung jury it will be the states decision on whether or not to re-try the case. From what I understand, they start all over again. The state builds a case, as does the defense. If any new evidence can be found at that point, I'm sure it will be entered into the new trial. It's possible the state will retry and patch up all the holes in the arguments they've presented in this trial. I'm not sure how they could do that though. It would mean finding witnesses to contradict 2 experts who say EA was only dead for 2-4 days, witnesses to contradict the cell phone records that proved JA was in or around Sawmills most of the day, a witness to discount the lady who said she saw Emily all dressed up that morning, a witness to say the two ladies in SC were lying.. and the list goes on. The Hickory Daily Record article yesterday stated the judge told the jury that they had enough evidence to make a decision in this case and to go back to deliberation. I think that says a lot.
In addition to that.. if the jury can't decide and there is another trial, can you imagine how much that will cost the taxpayers of the state of NC???
got a question: wasn't it said that the employee watched as Jerry loaded up Emily's truck? If that's so, then a guilty Jerry would have to have been dumb as a box 'o rocks for having him right there when he'd probably ask where Emily had got to. And dumber still, for havin him present when he went into the woods with a trash bag...if the trash bag was to be used for the insinuated purpose. Oh yeah...if thats all true, then why didn't he ask where Emily was? Could it be that he knew where she was...or where she was gonna be, later, when he met up with her? Was he still friends with the fired employee? How good of a friend was he, exactly? Just wonderin'....hard on my mind, as I'm sure it is yours right now too.
In the case of "who dunnit," which was posed from CURIOUS, what I think it was possibly a farm hand who perhaps attempted "something" that went wrong. Shot her, she turned to run, and they shot her again. I really don't think Jerry would have just "dumped" her body like that, for the police to find and possibly trace it back to him...that would be rediculous on his part.
Or course, without a body - no $4.5 million.
As to the employee, can you imagine what it would be like to not speak English very well, to know that most of the people in your community resent your being there and do not think to highly of hispanic workers? He probably felt no one would believe him anyway and that if Jerry hurt Emily, who was his wife that he was supposed to love, what chance did he have? I think if I was in his shoes, I'd be pretty scared to ask many questions to someone I thought may have harmed his own wife - what would he have to loose by killing me too?
And with regards to the cell phone, maybe Jerry had an accomplice who took the phone around Sawmills and made calls while Jerry drove the truck and body to SC. It's as plausible as some of the stuff you guys have come up with.
It is my opinion we are dealing with a sociopath, and I think he's capable of pretty much anything when pushed. I also think he had plenty of time to come up with an alibi, and to hide or destroy evidence.
I don't care what it costs the state. As a resident of NC and a long-term friend of Emily's family, if it's a hung jury I want him retried.
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The most interesting and obvious factor with this case is that all of you on this messg. board have just as good an explanation for her death...
The problem is - no one knows for sure and the prosec. did not prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt, which is why we can all paint very different pictures of what MIGHT HAVE happened.
The problem is might have just won't work in a mureder 1 case.
The prosec. shouldn't have been quite so ambitious without a murder weapon or blood evidence and settled for a manslaughter charge under the guise of a crime of passion, etc...
Without blood evidence directly connecting JA to the scene
AND NO murder weapon...
PLUS a rather odd stretegy put forth by the prosec. with that unsupported opinion of how JA commited the crime during closing arguments...
At best for the prosec. - HUNG.
Worse case for the prosec. - Not Guilty
How about you folks?
Gertie, Do you live in the area? The reason that I ask is, how did Jerry make it to South Carolina from "Sawmills" North Carolina unload the truck that we assume was on a car carrier, "Stage" the area, place her glasses in a motel, and make it back to Sawmills in four hours?
best case: guilty
worst case: not guilty
acceptable alternative: hung jury
The area wasn't staged, he placed the truck in the parking lot and left. And no one has proof that there were any glasses found, but if there were glasses - how do you know they were hers? My husband leaves his reading glasses all over the place, it could have just been a guest of the hotel who forget their glasses. Emily's glasses ended up in the trash bag with the other evidence Jerry got rid of.
As other people have stated in other posts, maybe he had someone drive the truck to SC for him and then skip town - as I said earlier - this is a plausible as what you guys come up with.
Soccerjox - I live in the state.
I just checked mapquest. They estimate the time at 1:50 minutes one way. That's 3:40 minutes roundtrip whick gives him plenty of time to drive there, drop the truck, turn around and drive back. You also have to consider the 4 hours is not a "hard" number since no one can give exact times. I really don't think he would have taken time to stop for lunch given the job he was doing, so I feel sure he dropped the truck and hightailed it back to Sawmills to start setting up alibis and cleaning up his mess.
So they just listened to the voicemail messages on Emily's phone. After hearing those messages from family and friends asking her if she was okay and where she was, Emily would have called them back - if she were able to.
I think it is very telling that only 2 messages were from Jerry. I would be calling constantly if that was my spouse (whom I supposedly loved) unless I already knew where she was and what had happened to her.
Gertie, Thank you! Is it possible that he could not have made it in that time considering that all routes to that area are slow moving routes, I40 to 64 through Rutherfordton - Mineral Springs Mountain Road thorough Shelby and Gaffney - very mountainous roads - I 40 to 321 through Lincolnton to 85 South - always heavily traveled? No one has come forward to say they saw that kind of activity going on. If he was pulling a carrier with her truck on it he would not have been able to drive more than 55 - 60 miles per hour. Going any of those routes he would have encountered traffic especially heavy traffic considering the alleged time of day that he would have had to make the trip. He would have had to get gas; there is no way he could have made that trip on one tank pulling a truck of that size. Was the tire on the truck not flat, slashed I believe is what they said in court? As far as the glasses are concerned you are right I don’t know if they were hers or not but that proves that the CCSD did not do their due diligence in the case as it should have been tested for DNA. As far as an accomplice or someone helping him, why didn’t CCSD investigate that? The call from Texas Why was that not traced? Who was this mullet man that was seen with her on that day? Would you not agree that the CCSD failed miserably in this case? I guess what I am trying to point out is that, we that feel JA is not guilty are basing our opinions on what JM is providing us in the court, unbiased commentary and what we are hearing on the news. You have a vested interest in this case, you have an emotional opinion on this case, rightly so, you have lost what I am assuming is a dear friend? And I am sorry for your loss. It is very possible that JA did not commit this crime. It is up to the Prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed the crime. They did not do that.
Gertie,
But if they were having problems and their marriage was very strained, maybe he assumed she had left him. I don't think that is very telling at all.
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