Posted on 10/16/2017 5:11:43 PM PDT by BBell
The judge declared a mistrial in the Jessica Chambers murder case Monday evening after jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision over the fate of Quinton Tellis, who is charged in the 2014 burning death of the 19-year-old Mississippi woman.
The jurors, who had deliberated between nine and 10 hours since Sunday, began deliberating Sunday, told Circuit Judge Gerald Chatham they could not reach a verdict at the trial in Batesville, about 50 miles south of Memphis.
District Attorney John Champion said the government will retry Tellis in Chambers' death.
Tellis, 29, is charged with capital murder in the December 2014 death of Chambers, who was found by first responders with severe burns covering 93 percent of her body. Chambers, who had been doused with a flammable liquid and set ablaze, was first discovered emerging from the woods near her burning car wearing only her underwear. She died hours later at a Memphis hospital.
Prosecutors claim Tellis lied repeatedly to investigators about spending time with Chambers, a former high school cheerleader, in the hours before she was found on Dec. 6, 2014 -- presenting cellphone data to show their phones were in close proximity the night of the murder.
Prosecutor John Champion told jurors that Tellis mistakenly believed he had suffocated Chambers before lighting her on fire along a rural Mississippi road in Courtland, where she lived with her family.
But defense attorneys said Chambers told firefighters on the scene that a man named "Eric" set her on fire -- not the man charged with her murder. Several first responders testified that Chambers -- her lips charred and barely able to speak -- said the name "Eric" when asked who did this to her and did not provide a last name.
Chamber's friend, Kesha Meyer, testified that she had never heard Chambers
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Prosecutor John Champion told jurors that Tellis mistakenly believed he had suffocated Chambers before lighting her on fire along a rural Mississippi road in Courtland, where she lived with her family.
Depending on where the prosecutor got that information that sounds pretty damning.
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I had. She was in with the drug dealers, dated a few of them, and then apparently tried to get out.
It does sound like she fell in with the wrong crowd.
It does sound like she fell in with the wrong crowd.
>>Palmer and defense attorney Alton Peterson suggested that authorities turned their focus on Tellis because they needed a suspect after months of dead-end leads. Quoting Warren Buffet in his closing argument, Peterson said, “If the police follow you for 100 miles, at some point they’ll have something to pull you over for.”
Didn’t Tellis lie about not seeing her the day of her murder and then admitting that they ate together and did other activities that day?
She may well have been, but the other thing it didn’t mention - and I’m sure the jurors weren’t told - is that this guy is also on trial in another state (Texas?) for the gruesome murder of another woman that he barely knew or perhaps didn’t know at all.
He is sort of a drifter who may be a serial killer and seems to enjoy causing pain. It’s possible that he had connections with drug gangs in her area, but equally possible that he just lured her out there. SHe was apparently very trusting and he was supposedly one of those charming psychopaths that attracts women.
She had bought extra gasoline, probably at his request because he told her he needed it for his vehicle, although she doesnt seem to have known him well if at all and probably just met him by accident.
I don't believe everything I read so take this all with a grain of salt.
Also implicated was the muslim drug dealing owner of a local quickie mart, and he hanged out with local black drug dealers whom the deceased had sexual relations with.
It is likely IMO that deceased had consensual sex with her killer previously in their history. She previously had sex with several black druggy/thug types who apparently passed her around.
PS: Her dad failed.
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I read that in the last hour of researching. I did not know the victim had such a reputation.
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No one knows how the [foreign] young muslim just came up with
$200k to buy a quickie mart, and police were afraid of the perps from the get go, and they did not investigate fully.
Afraid of riling black people.
“PS: Her dad failed.”
...and it all started the day he enrolled her in public school.
I’m pretty sure that she was heavily involved with him at one point. He left the area after the murder and killed another girl.
Quinton Tellis... 29, is charged with capital murder in the December 2014 death of Chambers... who had been doused with a flammable liquid and set ablaze... Tellis lied repeatedly to investigators about spending time with Chambers, a former high school cheerleader, in the hours before she was found on Dec. 6, 2014 -- presenting cellphone data to show their phones were in close proximity the night of the murder.
North Mississippi is becoming a real shithole, not that the east central is doing much better. A story about a man beaten by 3 blacks in West Point, Ms. made news a week or so ago, as the three young black perpetrators were convicted with sentences ranging from 7 months to 3 years time after good behavior in jail was figured in. The white man beaten was a vet, and had life changing injuries. Happened in a waffle house. In the three men’s defense it was mentioned that the victim and his cousin had verbally said racists remarks before a argument turned into the beating.And let’s hope the killer of Jessica Chambers gets tougher punishment than Mississippi “courts” showed when he is tried for the murder of the Asian woman he is also charged with murder in.
Such a horrible way to die. I had read that drugs and gang activity were involved. If memory serves Chamber had been involved with some very bad people but had broken away and was starting a new life.
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