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Woman accused in boyfriend's suitcase murder will represent herself with no handcuffs during trial
wesh.com ^ | Aug 9, 2024 | Bob Hazen

Posted on 08/12/2024 12:13:07 PM PDT by V_TWIN

ORLANDO, Fla. — The woman accused of killing her boyfriend by leaving him trapped inside a suitcase will be allowed more freedom in court in the future.

Sarah Boone, 46, is charged with murder and has been held in jail since her arrest in 2020. Investigators say she zipped her boyfriend, Jorge Torres Jr., inside a suitcase after a game of hide and seek. She allegedly left him there when she went to bed and found him dead inside the next day.

Boone has no attorney and is representing herself in court. Judge Michael Kraynick ruled she forfeited her right to an attorney because she went through eight lawyers over the years. Some of those lawyers had to step down; others were forced out by Boone.

At a hearing on Friday, Boone admitted she doesn’t fully understand how the legal process works. While questioning a witness, she asked what the judge meant when he sustained an objection from prosecutors.

“I know this is a lame question, but what does ‘sustained’ mean?” Boone asked.

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Only in Florida.....SMH
1 posted on 08/12/2024 12:13:07 PM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN
Investigators say she zipped her boyfriend, Jorge Torres Jr., inside a suitcase after a game of hide and seek.

WTF?????????

2 posted on 08/12/2024 12:16:45 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

I know right?......bizarre doesn’t begin to describe it.

She’s charged with murder and her big issue is wanting to not be handcuffed during the trial.


3 posted on 08/12/2024 12:19:28 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Investigators say she zipped her boyfriend, Jorge Torres Jr., inside a suitcase after a game of hide and seek.

Not intentional! Not intentional!

4 posted on 08/12/2024 12:21:33 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: V_TWIN

“At a hearing on Friday, Boone admitted she doesn’t fully understand how the legal process works.”

Laying the groundwork for an insanity plea? She has EIGHT lawyers behind her probably MORE than willing to testify to that.

She might actually be smarter than the average ‘Florida Woman.’ *SMIRK*


5 posted on 08/12/2024 12:24:35 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Steely Tom

She actually recorded it......probably another case of incriminating oneself with cellphone video.


6 posted on 08/12/2024 12:27:00 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I suspect she’s smarter that she’s letting on....firing her lawyers is more than likely a delay tactic that the judge finally had enough of and ruled she’ll be representing herself.

Ooops......can you say backfire?


7 posted on 08/12/2024 12:30:15 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

Maybe she’ll get it when they zip her onto ‘Old sparky’.


8 posted on 08/12/2024 12:35:39 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: V_TWIN

You tube has videos of her police interrogation. She was drunk, he used to hit her, she didn’t know where he was hiding. She pushed the full suitcase down a set of steps with him in it to “ teach him a lesson “. HE WAS PLEADING FOR HIS LIFE AND SHE TOLD HIM TO SHUT UP AND THATS WHAT YOU GET. You need to look her up on YouTube before commenting. >p>p.s. who is dumb enough to let anyone stick you in a zipped up suitcase? It was a sex game gone out of hand and she left him to die after pushing him down the steps. The dude was a druggie and an alcoholic. The 2 of them deserved each other and she’s insists it was and accident and wants to ead not guilty.. and the cops have the whole thing on tape with audio!!


9 posted on 08/12/2024 12:36:44 PM PDT by Ikeon (If i gave you my motives, you would use it as ammunition against my free will)
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This is just now coming to trial????

I watched a true crime documentary about her a few years ago! There was a lot of police camera footage.
She is guilty as hell.
With as arrogant and selfish stupid as she seemed from the footage, I’m not surprised that she wants to represent herself.
Here she is, her significant other is dead inside the apartment, and she is demanding the cops let her back into the crime scene so she can get her Dr.Pepper because she is thirsty.


10 posted on 08/12/2024 12:41:22 PM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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who is dumb enough to let anyone stick you in a zipped up suitcase?

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I’m going off of memory, but I believe alcohol (and possibly drugs) was involved. But yes, these are strange people. She is a psychopath.


11 posted on 08/12/2024 12:43:03 PM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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It’s been going on so long because she keeps firing or causing her lawyers to quit.

She doesn’t want to represent herself, the judge decreed that recently because she keeps running off her lawyers.

As far as arrogant and selfish, you bet.

I’m watching it right now on court tv and she’s attempting to manipulate the judge and the whole proceedings.

Back in the day we used to call chicks like this “manipulative bitches”.

Dude probably zipped HIMSELF up in the suitcase just to get away from that psyco.


12 posted on 08/12/2024 12:54:37 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Beowulf9

Old sparky is retired bro, and I don’t think this is a death penalty case.


13 posted on 08/12/2024 12:58:14 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Ikeon

“she’s insists it was and accident and wants to plead not guilty”

Nobody is stopping her from any of that......she just picked the wrong state to do it in.


14 posted on 08/12/2024 1:00:38 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

Why are they wasting so much taxpayer dollars on this nonsense?


15 posted on 08/12/2024 1:29:24 PM PDT by montag813
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To: V_TWIN

Musta been an overnight bag.


16 posted on 08/12/2024 1:29:50 PM PDT by dblshot
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Sparky got replaced. Still an alternative though. Too bad for Boone, she could escape prison for life and go sitting down.

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1999/05/08/florida-replaces-old-sparky/


17 posted on 08/12/2024 1:31:25 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

17 posts in and no “Carrion Luggage”?


18 posted on 08/12/2024 1:32:28 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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To: V_TWIN
Winner of the 2020 “Hide and Seek” contest izzzzzZz….
19 posted on 08/12/2024 1:43:05 PM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: Ikeon; V_TWIN

I guess these are the YouTube videos.

Very disturbing...

Her story to the police:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdDuQAO1RGs

Her story doesn’t match her cell phone video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBwBOblsqwU

She’s a coldblooded killer.


20 posted on 08/12/2024 2:12:43 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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