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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So much for love, peace and tolerance among the LGBTQ gang.
20 years minimum sentence and still claims innocence in her plea.
Has the judge been called homophobic yet?
This is a common trait with the left. They have never been held responsible for their actions. They have never been taught that there is right and wrong. Their world view is that they are never wrong.
Sounds like an L didn't respect a B's right to be who she is or her boundaries.
When will NOW and Rolling Stoned speak out against this aspect of rape culture on college campuses???
They were both drinking (and who knows what else, they had whipped cream in cans and some people huff those).
A rapist (even impaired) doesn't get to use the excuse "didn't start out intended that way").
Yep. Not to highjack your thread but here’s another from last year:
http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_26321702/arden-hills-gas-station-shooting-victim-was-boston
Never seen a gay yet that wasn’t on the edge of murder they have a very twisted mind they won’t be denied of their logic.
Perhaps, wouldn't be the first woman to make such allegations.
Still doesn't justify the behavior of concealing a dead body.
She should find plenty of lesbo sex in prison.
“I made the most horrible decision to cover it all up to hide it,” Ewing said. “I wish I had just called 911, but at that point it was too late.”
Translation: I’m sorry.......I got caught.
-——a fishery sciences and biology major,-——
Damn, what a tragedy. Now she won’t be able to make a difference /s
“Never seen a gay yet that wasn’t on the edge of murder... “
A scary reality.
Today’s decadent lefties think it’s hip and happening to watch a show about women’s prison.
I imagine this individual will find that the real thing is much less glamorous and humorous.
Shrestha retorted back, allegedly saying she was only “experimenting” and “toying” with Ewing, according to Ewing’s testimony. It was then that the two began physically fighting and Ewing “reached her arm around her neck and held it there,” strangling Shrestha with a chokehold, she testified. A medical examiner had ruled that Shrestha had been killed by ligature strangulation, which is by a foreign object other than a body part. However, Daniel argued that no fibers were found on Shrestha’s neck, instead suggesting that Ewing’s story was accurate and a chokehold was used. The cause of Shrestha’s death was part of determining the guidelines for the years of her sentence.
The typical lesbo murder involves multiple and excessive stabbings by sharp instrument, genital mutilation and often an "extra" such as cigarette burns. This case is still bad and Ewing's guilty plea is the only reason she didn't get a longer sentence.
Well, the good news for her is she’ll be around many of he “own kind”, probably be like a vacation.
Not if she keeps the same expression she's wearing in the picture.
I have not heard sh!t about this from the media and I live in the area. OTOH, when that college lacrosse player rage killed his gf (similar case), I heard about it frequently in the news.
I’ve seen some pretty ugly lesbos so wh knows?
Can you picture a crowd of fat, manless, hairy-leeged beasts with their fists raised, rhythmically chanting “SEX-ist RAC-ist HO-mo-PHOBE!!”
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