Posted on 06/03/2015 8:01:33 AM PDT by Perseverando
CHRISTIANSBURG — After an eight-hour sentencing hearing Monday, Jessica Michelle Ewing, a former Virginia Tech student and Corps of Cadets member was sentenced to 45 years in prison for the 2014 killing of fellow student Samanata Shrestha.
Judge Robert Turk sentenced to Ewing to 80 years for first-degree murder and five years for transporting and concealing a body. After Ewing serves 45 years, the rest will be suspended, Turk ruled. She will be on probation for 20 years after her release. Ewing was facing a minimum of 20 years and up to life in prison on the first-degree murder charge.
Montgomery County Commonwealth’s Attorney Mary Pettitt recommended a life sentence Monday.
Ewing, 24, entered an Alford plea of guilt in February to first-degree murder — just days before her trial was scheduled to begin. Ewing’s attorney, Tyson Daniel, said that there had been great discussion about whether to go forward with a trial, but ultimately Ewing didn’t want to prolong the case and put Shrestha’s family through a trial.
The Alford plea allows Ewing to maintain innocence while acknowledging prosecutors have enough evidence to make a case. Ewing also pleaded guilty to a felony charge of altering, transporting or concealing a body.
During the sentencing hearing, the defense called several witnesses to testify about Ewing’s character and the investigation. But it was Ewing herself who took the stand in order to explain in her own words what happened the night of Feb. 7, 2014, while she and Shrestha, 21, were enjoying a “date night.”
According to Ewing, the two met through school in the fall of 2013 and struck up conversations as they were waiting for their classes. Ewing was a fishery sciences and biology major, and Shrestha was a biology major.
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She was sentenced to 80 years, 35 suspended, with 20 years of probation after release sometime around the year 2060. She should be almost 70 years old by then.
I seriously doubt the nitrous charge of one can of whipped cream would do much, especially between two people, including college-age body-mass females.
According to the perp's account, it appears that her expectations didn't match the "experimenting" and "toying" vic's, and Ewing became the "woman scorned".
Normally, I'd think the sentence was too much for "a crime of passion", but Ewing has a nasty streak in her, given her hazing history.
As for Shrestha, if she hooked up with a guy, after the "passion", he would have rolled over and gone to sleep, not engaging in any misconstrued pillow talk leading to homicide.
She will get plenty of lesbian contact in prison; probably more than she wants.
Pay wall. Alternate sources?
Yep, two biology majors who couldn’t figure out Tab A goes into Slot B. Society dodged a bullet.
Many thanks to the commie schools, Hollywood, the mainstream media, progressives, and liberals everywhere, for brainwashing many young girls that they must be lesbians and that is a good thing. /biting sarcasm
Sorry. Don't know what the problem is. I'm not having any problem. Just checked again. No one else seems to be having any either.
A number of studies have shown that lesbian relationships have equal or more amounts of violence than heterosexual relationships.
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what are you saying about biology majors?
This one is not going to make a difference
That may be true... but biology majors although useless as an undergrad degree fuel most of the medical and health science majors on the grad level. Some freepers may even have biology degrees! ;)
Princess riverdawg’s former apartment mate, who just graduated with a biology major, accepted a job offer of $60K as a hospital-based lab tech in the Denver area. Not a bad gig while she takes a year or two off before grad school.
Today’s decadent lefties think it’s hip and happening to watch a show about women’s prison.
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You’re about 30 years or more behind in your thinking.
Linda Blair of Exorcist fame is just one of the, uh, actresses in a chain of women in prison films.
In case you want to bone up of them, here’s a link to a bunch of them.
http://popfiction.com/handsoftime/html/she/prison1.html
What? she didn’t claim privilege by being a member of an oppressed persecuted minority?
I was referring specifically to Orange Is The New Black which attempts to glamorize prison and prisoners beyond the Caged Heat style fantasy/exploitation.
LGBTQABC lives matter
That sounds pretty malicious trying to hide the body.
Lesbians get really angry (statistically) when their “other” isn’t committed to them as they would want it to be.
There is no more dangerous place for an “LGBT” woman than in a relationship.
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