Bravo Houston !
Posted on 08/27/2013 4:35:08 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A Houston woman accused of kidnapping and killing a 12-year-old boy nearly three years ago learned her fate Tuesday morning. A judge found Mona Nelson guilty of capital murder in the 2010 death of Jonathan Foster.
After the verdict was read, Judge Jeannine Barr sentenced Nelson to life in prison. Prosecutors had not sought the death penalty.
Nelson was accused of kidnapping Jonathan on Christmas Eve 2010. His burned body was later found wrapped in carpet, discarded in a ditch.
Nelson had told police she dumped the contents of a garbage can there, but claimed not to know that they included the boy's remains.
The entire trial lasted a little more than two weeks. It culminated in dramatic closing arguments on Monday. And by Tuesday morning, the judge reached her verdict.
A bench trial, rather than a jury trial, is an unusual choice in capital murder case, but both sides say that's what Nelson wanted. In the end, it wasn't the verdict Nelson hoped for, when she asked for a bench trial.
"When the judge found her guilty, she told the judge, 'I'm innocent your honor, I'm innocent,'" said defense attorney Allen Tanner.
Prosecutors Connie Spence and Sunni Mitchell spent two weeks methodically building their case, with multiple witnesses, cell phone records, and even grainy surveillance video. Taking no chances, even though they only had to convince a judge of one instead a jury of 12, that Nelson was guilty of murder.
Jonathan's mother was not in court Tuesday morning, but prosecutors spoke with her after the verdict was announced.....
The capital murder conviction means Nelson automatically gets a sentence of life in prison without parole, though her attorney says an appeal is already underway.
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“Prosecutors had not sought the death penalty.”
Is Texas still in America?
Bravo Houston !
black lesbian woman kills young white boy.
msm has largely ignored.
From what I read, she didn’t just kill him,
she tortured him to death with a torch...
Life is too good for her.
In Texas? Jeez, this is the kind of case that is a poster child for the use of the death penalty. The prosecutor must have been abolitionist.
ABC.
If 0bama had a wife, she’d look like....
.....okay, she looks like a Wookie.
yeah...
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