Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Aug 1, 2021 21:28:46 GMT
I just finished a three week stint at the ole Superior Court. At first you are put in the jury assembly room, then moved down to the jury panel hall to stew for a bit, and finally picked to serve on the jury. Juror #10 me was.
The case was a code 187, homicide, determined by the coroner's autopsy to be a murder.
The defendant was one of the most ignorant morons ever to attempt the "perfect murder". Yes, this was premeditated, planned and executed according to his calculations. It was a stupid plan, it was poorly executed and easy to see through. His defense attorney had absolutely no chance whatsoever.
It was a guy who had lived with his girlfriend over at her parents house for two years, got kicked out, got mad she was starting to date other guys, in fact she was planning a sex tryst to Las Vegas with the new guy but never got there.
The parents house had five, count 'em, five cameras on the exterior of the house and two on the interior of the house, there was a metal safety door as you entered that had two locks and the front wooden door had another. The front wooden door key also opened the locks on the bedroom doors which were also locked at night.
This goofball made an appearance on all of the cameras and cameras on neighbors houses on the same street. This goofball thought wearing a hoodie and some sort of covering on the bottom half of his face to cover his long beard, and not wearing shoes, only socks, one of which he took off inside the house and he wore that one on the left hand and a plastic glove on the right hand would disguise him enough not to recognize him at the front door camera and the cameras inside the house.
Wrong, very, very wrong. The way he walked and the way he hunched over was recognizable by anyone within five seconds.
Then, there was a ton of cell phone evidence. There was him harassing his ex girlfriend and speaking in a way only her new boyfriend talked. New boy was a fan of the movie "Storm Troopers" and picked up on using the word "rightmeow" all the time in texts. Used in sentences like "Got to do this rightmeow" or some shit like it. Old boyfriend was mimicking it in texts to old girlfriend.
Also, he was stalking the old girlfriend. Cell phone pinging towers in a pattern that showed he was following her regularly. One night as she partied at a co-worker's house he texted her 74 times. Both her phone and his were pinging the same tower that night. He was right outside stewing as she drank and had a great time.
Oh, and there was a sex tape involved. It was hard to make the breakup stick and these two still saw each other, had meals and apparently still had sex. Must have been hard on him when he followed her over to her new boyfriends house one night and drove by the car where the girlfriend was giving the new boyfriend head in the front seat of the car. He drove by several times probably knowing what was going on. His car was seen by the both of them.
But ok, back to the sex tape. Apparently, it was a doozy, the seventeen second clip of it the jury got to see had to have the sound turned off as it was very explicit. The only part of the tape that was for the jury was when the defendant recorded the side of his own neck for a bit. We saw his beard and skin, no marks. This sex which he recorded was the night before he killed her. They had sex about seven or eight Saturday night and she was killed about three thirty a.m. Sunday morning.
When mom woke up and found her daughter dead she called the police and asked for medical assistance right away, then she called the ex boyfriend. He showed up at the scene and before the detectives arrived they called ahead and asked him to be transported to the station where he could wait to be interviewed by detectives. The cop who transported him noticed scratch marks on his neck and detectives took pictures and of his chest where they later discovered other scratches. They still didn't know how the woman died at this point because there were no visible ligature marks on the neck. They thought it might be an overdose. The autopsy cleared that up. Also, when he was done he took her car keys and drove the car away a few blocks and texted the woman's mother from the dead girlfriend's phone and from her room saying she had to be at work early the next day.
Anyways, there was a ton other evidence all of it leading to a simple two hour deliberation and a proclamation of guilt. We decided he was guilty of premeditated murder. Murder in the first degree.
Anybody else serve recently?
