Zachariah Anderson Posted on 03/17/2022 9:13:18 AM PDT by marktwain
This past Monday, March 14, 2022, a jury was picked and ready to hear testimony for a high profile murder case here in Kenosha. Zachariah Anderson was ready to stand trial for 1st degree intentional murder, hiding a corpse, and two counts of stalking. He is accused of killing his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend, Rosalio Gutierrez, Jr on or about April 1, 2020. He is also accused of disposing of Rosalio’s body.
Zachariah Anderson
Rosalio’s body has not yet been recovered, but almost two years later, the jury was hearing opening statements by DA Michael Graveley and Anderson’s defense attorneys on Tuesday. Today, the first witnesses for the prosecution were scheduled to take the stand. No witness would be sworn in today, however. According to a source inside the courtroom, the defense accused Graveley of not turning over a statement of a witness. After a brief discussion, Judge Bruce Schroeder declared a mistrial.
Rosalio Gutierrez, Jr.
According to Fox6 News, Rosalio’s mother had temporarily relocated to Kenosha from Colorado for the trial and was happy to finally get justice. According to court records, however, they will need to wait another 6 months. The new jury trial is scheduled for September 12, 2022.
Judge Bruce Schroeder
(Photo by Kevin Mathewson, Kenosha County Eye)
We reached out to Anderson’s defense team and DA Graveley and didn’t immediately hear back.
Our local newspaper has decided against writing a story about this.
Incompetence is putting it nicely.
(Nice trigger discipline there, ADA Binger.)
You were right, he is a good Judge.
Is his last name ‘Baldwin’ by any chance?.............
He was still guilty but the life sentence was reduced to eight years,
The accused has been in jail with a $750,000 bond for just short of two years. This adds another six months.
The body of the victim has never been found.
One of my in-laws is a defense attorney in California. He has a wealth of stories about incompetent DAs wrecking cases. He says to remember that the DAs are usually recently out of law school and can’t get jobs in the private sector because of stupidity.
Just a reinforcement to the old adage about government employees not being the sharpest knives in the drawer. If they were, they would have been snatched up in the private sector.
No offense intended to you, but your in-law is an idiot. My experience with prosecutors is similar to my experience with those in private practice. Many are good, hardworking and honest, and some are lazy and uninterested in doing the hard work needed to try a court case. Over the years I encountered some who liked to play games with pre-trial disclosures, but most did not. So, generalizations such as that expressed by your in-law, in my opinion, are worthless.
That’s a plan, not a failure.
The defendant in this case is fortunate to not have a corrupt judge.
I’ve been in front of about 10 Judges, and also a state Supreme Court. Aside from one Judge and one Justice, they’ve all been corrupt. Same with prosecutors. Sheriffs aren’t any better.
Granted, the cases I’ve been involved with involve public corruption in the state Supreme Court, State Patrol, and many other state and local officials.
It’s not over until I say it’s over
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