GUILTY AZ - Navneet Kaur, 30, Phoenix, 30 March 2007 *Arrest*

[YESorNO]

Man accused of murdering wife in 2007 testifies in court

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Ahwatukee murder suspect testifies in own defense (with clip)

June 27, 2019

"PHOENIX, AZ (3TV/CBS5) - ...Thursday was day 2 of Grewal taking the stand....

Wednesday prosecutors cross-examined a woman who performed a neuro-psychological evaluation on the defendant. She said he showed signs of paranoia.

“He was feeling like he was being spied on, there was someone walking back and forth outside the window,” he said....

The trial is in recess for Independence Day, and it won’t pick back up until July 8."

Ahwatukee murder suspect testifies in own defense

 

[YESorNO]

Avtar Grewal trial: Husband takes stand in trial he killed his wife

Jun 27, 2019

 

[pocketaccent]

Update!

Thursday, June 27th:
*Trial continues (Day 13) (@ 10:30am PT) – AZ – Navneet Kaur (30) (March 30, 2007, Phoenix) - *Avtar Singh Grewal (44/32 @ time of crime) charged (3/30/07), indicted (4/3/07) & arraigned (9/23/11) with 1st degree murder & 2nd degree burglary. Plead not guilty. $4M bond. Juan Martinez, Prosecutor
Extradited from India to U.S. (9/14/11).
Trial started 6/3/19. Jury is 13 people. (Started at 16: 3 jurors have been excused). Trial should last about 3 months. (Day 1-3 was jury selection).
Trial information from Days 1 thru 10 (6/3/19 to 6/24/19) reference post #77 here:
AZ - Navneet Kaur, 30, Phoenix, 30 March 2007
6/25/19 Day 11: No update yet on court site. Trial continues on 6/26.
6/26/19 Day 12: No update yet on court site. Trial continues on 6/27.
6/27/19 Day 13: No update yet on court site. Trial continues on 7/8.

They are taking the whole July 4th week off...And wow, Grewal takes the stand! Me wants to watch this live streamed!!

 

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Man accused of murdering wife in 2007 testifies in court

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Ahwatukee murder suspect testifies in own defense (with clip)

June 27, 2019

"PHOENIX, AZ (3TV/CBS5) - ...Thursday was day 2 of Grewal taking the stand....

Wednesday prosecutors cross-examined a woman who performed a neuro-psychological evaluation on the defendant. She said he showed signs of paranoia.

“He was feeling like he was being spied on, there was someone walking back and forth outside the window,” he said....

The trial is in recess for Independence Day, and it won’t pick back up until July 8."

Ahwatukee murder suspect testifies in own defense

At least the psych testimony seems to have been dispensed with quickly. That's a bit surprising, given his narrative about the day he killed his wife.

And his alleged paranoia, that he thinks he's being spied on & that someone is walking back and forth "outside his window"? He's in jail, fgs. Noticing he has guards doesn't even make him observant, much less paranoid.

 

[Niner]

Monday, July 8th:
*Trial continues (Day 14) (@ 10:30am PT) – AZ – Navneet Kaur (30) (March 30, 2007, Phoenix) - *Avtar Singh Grewal (44/32 @ time of crime) charged (3/30/07), indicted (4/3/07) & arraigned (9/23/11) with 1st degree murder & 2nd degree burglary. Plead not guilty. $4M bond. Juan Martinez, Prosecutor
Extradited from India to U.S. (9/14/11).
Trial started 6/3/19. Jury is 13 people. (Started at 16: 3 jurors have been excused). Trial should last about 3 months. (Day 1-3 was jury selection).
Trial information from Days 1 thru 10 (6/3/19 to 6/24/19) reference post #77 here:
AZ - Navneet Kaur, 30, Phoenix, 30 March 2007
6/25/19 Day 11: Defense witnesses: Deepindra Singh Thour. Exhibits 223, 229 234 entered. Jury not present. Counsel present argument to the Court regarding anticipated testimony from expert witness, Dr. Karen Froming. Jury back. Michael Einspahr. Harinder Chowhanis sworn to act as the interpreter for Punjabi language. Harbhagwan Seikhon (recalled). Trial continues on 6/26.
6/26/19 Day 12: Defense witness: Avtar Singh Grewal. Trial continues on 6/27.
6/27/19 Day 13: Defense witness: Avtar Singh Grewal. Cross exam starts on 7/8 with Juan!

 

[Niner]

Tuesday, July 9th:
*Trial continues (Day 15) (@ 10:30am PT) – AZ – Navneet Kaur (30) (March 30, 2007, Phoenix) - *Avtar Singh Grewal (44/32 @ time of crime) charged (3/30/07), indicted (4/3/07) & arraigned (9/23/11) with 1st degree murder & 2nd degree burglary. Plead not guilty. $4M bond. Juan Martinez, Prosecutor
Extradited from India to U.S. (9/14/11).
Trial started 6/3/19. Jury is 13 people. (Started at 16: 3 jurors have been excused). Trial should last about 3 months. (Day 1-3 was jury selection).
Trial information from Days 1 thru 13 (6/3/19 to 7/3/19) reference post #85 here:
AZ - Navneet Kaur, 30, Phoenix, 30 March 2007
7/8/19 Day 14: No information on court site yet. Trial continues on 7/9.

 

[Niner]

Whom ever is keeping the court site update is getting lazy.... no updates for either 7/8 or 7/9....

Wednesay, July 10th:
*Trial continues (Day 16) (@ 10:30am PT) – AZ – Navneet Kaur (30) (March 30, 2007, Phoenix) - *Avtar Singh Grewal (44/32 @ time of crime) charged (3/30/07), indicted (4/3/07) & arraigned (9/23/11) with 1st degree murder & 2nd degree burglary. Plead not guilty. $4M bond. Juan Martinez, Prosecutor
Extradited from India to U.S. (9/14/11).
Trial started 6/3/19. Jury is 13 people. (Started at 16: 3 jurors have been excused). Trial should last about 3 months. (Day 1-3 was jury selection).
Trial information from Days 1 thru 13 (6/3/19 to 7/3/19) reference post #85 here:
AZ - Navneet Kaur, 30, Phoenix, 30 March 2007
7/8/19 Day 14: No court information yet. Trial continues on 7/9.
7/9/19 Day 15: No info from court site yet. Trial continues on 7/10.

 

[Niner]

Nothing yet on the court site updates....

Got this in google alert - but of course can't access it here....

Prosecutors focus on scribbled note in trial against man accused of killing wife in Ahwatukee

Anything interesting? Can someone give a 10% synopsis please? TIA!

 

[JerseyGirl]

Nothing yet on the court site updates....

Got this in google alert - but of course can't access it here....

Prosecutors focus on scribbled note in trial against man accused of killing wife in Ahwatukee

Anything interesting? Can someone give a 10% synopsis please? TIA!

A picture of the note was shown to jurors reading, in part, "I killed this selfish b****." Grewal did not deny scribbling the note but told prosecutors he did not mean what he wrote.

"You killed her, right?" asked prosecutor, Juan Martinez.

"But I didn't intentionally kill her," answered Grewal.

"And in [the note] you didn't say, 'I accidentally killed her.' You know that word, right? Accidentally?" asked Martinez.

"What do you think, I was in my right mind frame?" answered Grewal, who claimed his handwriting in the letter shows he was in distress.

"At what point did you write this? Where was the body when you wrote [the letter]?" asked Martinez.

"It was in, in the bathtub," Grewal responded.

 

[Niner]

Thanks a bunch JerseyGirl! Sure wish this was been live streamed - would LOVE to see Juan in action!!

 

[Niner]

Thursday, July 11th:
*Trial continues (Day 17) (@ 10:30am PT) – AZ – Navneet Kaur (30) (March 30, 2007, Phoenix) - *Avtar Singh Grewal (44/32 @ time of crime) charged (3/30/07), indicted (4/3/07) & arraigned (9/23/11) with 1st degree murder & 2nd degree burglary. Plead not guilty. $4M bond. Juan Martinez, Prosecutor
Extradited from India to U.S. (9/14/11).
Trial started 6/3/19. Jury is 13 people. (Started at 16: 3 jurors have been excused). Trial should last about 3 months. (Day 1-3 was jury selection).
Trial information from Days 1 thru 13 (6/3/19 to 7/3/19) reference post #85 here:
Found Deceased - AZ - Navneet Kaur, 30, Phoenix, 30 March 2007 *Arrest*
7/8/19 Day 14: No court information yet. Trial continues on 7/9.
7/9/19 Day 15: No info from court site yet. Trial continues on 7/10.
7/10/19 Day 16: Still no info from court site yet. Trial continues on 7/11.

 

[Niner]

Friday, July 12th:
*Trial continues (Day 17)-DARK Today (@ 10:30am PT) – AZ – Navneet Kaur (30) (March 30, 2007, Phoenix) - *Avtar Singh Grewal (44/32 @ time of crime) charged (3/30/07), indicted (4/3/07) & arraigned (9/23/11) with 1st degree murder & 2nd degree burglary. Plead not guilty. $4M bond. Juan Martinez, Prosecutor
Extradited from India to U.S. (9/14/11).
Trial started 6/3/19. Jury is 13 people. (Started at 16: 3 jurors have been excused). Trial should last about 3 months. (Day 1-3 was jury selection).
Trial information from Days 1 thru 13 (6/3/19 to 7/3/19) reference post #85 here:
Found Deceased - AZ - Navneet Kaur, 30, Phoenix, 30 March 2007 *Arrest*
7/8/19 Day 14: No court information yet. Trial continues on 7/9.
7/9/19 Day 15: No info from court site yet. Trial continues on 7/10.
7/10/19 Day 16: Still no info from court site yet. Trial continues on 7/11.
7/11/19 Day 17: And still no info available. Trial continues on 7/15.

 

[Hope4More]

Whom ever is keeping the court site update is getting lazy.... no updates for either 7/8 or 7/9....

Wednesay, July 10th:
*Trial continues (Day 16) (@ 10:30am PT) – AZ – Navneet Kaur (30) (March 30, 2007, Phoenix) - *Avtar Singh Grewal (44/32 @ time of crime) charged (3/30/07), indicted (4/3/07) & arraigned (9/23/11) with 1st degree murder & 2nd degree burglary. Plead not guilty. $4M bond. Juan Martinez, Prosecutor
Extradited from India to U.S. (9/14/11).
Trial started 6/3/19. Jury is 13 people. (Started at 16: 3 jurors have been excused). Trial should last about 3 months. (Day 1-3 was jury selection).
Trial information from Days 1 thru 13 (6/3/19 to 7/3/19) reference post #85 here:
AZ - Navneet Kaur, 30, Phoenix, 30 March 2007
7/8/19 Day 14: No court information yet. Trial continues on 7/9.
7/9/19 Day 15: No info from court site yet. Trial continues on 7/10.

Grewal was on the stand July 8 & 9. Defense motioned for a mistrial (no indication on what grounds) and was denied.

JM sounds just as fiesty as always.

Telling choice of words by Grewal. So, he'd just said he killed his wife accidentally, JM mocks him about whether or not he knows what "accidental" means, Grewal says he wasn't in his right mind, then JM begins pinning Grewal down further still with his relentless, merciless stream of questions:

JM: Where was "the body" when you wrote the note? Grewal: "IT was in the bathtub."

I'd bet that JM's choice of words was deliberate, but even if it wasn't, what a telling response. IT was in the bathtub. Not his dear wife Navneet who he had just accidentally killed.

 

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Thanks a bunch JerseyGirl! Sure wish this was been live streamed - would LOVE to see Juan in action!!

Here's a short clip of JM in action.

Grewal to JM: "You can ask me ten thousand quesitons and I will answer you ten thousand answers but don't bully me,ok?" (lol, he feels bullied.)
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JM: Yes or no, at the time that you were getting into that taxi, you hadn't called 911, right?

 

[Hope4More]

Here's a short clip of JM in action.

Grewal to JM: "You can ask me ten thousand quesitons and I will answer you ten thousand answers but don't bully me,ok?" (lol, he feels bullied.)
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JM: Yes or no, at the time that you were getting into that taxi, you hadn't called 911, right?

Nice try, Grewal. But it's pointless. JM won't let go until you give him what he wants, and protesting will only prolong the agony. So. Yes or No?

 

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JM: how long were you in that room after you broke the door open?
G: she slapped me and ...
JM: I didn't ask, did I ask you she slapped you sir? (I love it!!! Reminiscent of JA trial)

Wow, closing argument to start 'tomorrow' at 10:30 in the morning. (Hmm... I'm confused, did it happen on Thursday or today, Friday?)

 

[Hope4More]

JM: how long were you in that room after you broke the door open?
G: she slapped me and ...
JM: I didn't ask, did I ask you she slapped you sir? (I love it!!! Reminiscent of JA trial)

Wow, closing argument to start 'tomorrow' at 10:30 in the morning. (Hmm... I'm confused, did it happen on Thursday or today, Friday?)

He broke a door down to accidentally kill her? And then took her phone with him to NJ (where he departed for India) because ....he was confused?

Pocket ..

Grewal was on the stand Monday 8 & Tuesday 9. Closing arguments were to start the day after the "used her phone" testimony. That testimony was given on Tuesday, so closing was supposedly to begin on Wednesday, according to a local news channel.

Given the lack of interest & coverage by local media, I bet the next "news" they bother to report is the jury's verdict.

 

[pocketaccent]

He broke a door down to accidentally kill her? And then took her phone with him to NJ (where he departed for India) because ....he was confused?

Pocket ..

Grewal was on the stand Monday 8 & Tuesday 9. Closing arguments were to start the day after the "used her phone" testimony. That testimony was given on Tuesday, so closing was supposedly to begin on Wednesday, according to a local news channel.

Given the lack of interest & coverage by local media, I bet the next "news" they bother to report is the jury's verdict.

This article gives a bit clearer timeline for us, the die hard JM fans. Closing arguments started Thursday July 11. So the jury probably already got the case on July 12. Maybe a verdict early next week then (I hope).

Witness testimony wraps up in 2007 Ahwatukee murder case

And for Niner, here's a 10% synopsis just for you!

Back in court Wednesday, the defense said the note is consistent with a lesser crime, not with premeditated murder.
“In the note, it says that ‘I killed the selfish b----' but it did not say that ‘I intended,’ or ‘knowingly did.’ He just did,” the defense said.

Closing arguments in the case start Thursday at 10:30 a.m.
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(LOL at the defense's argument. G didn't premeditate since he didn't write 'intended' or 'knowingly killed'. LOL)

 

[Hope4More]

This article gives a bit clearer timeline for us, the die hard JM fans. Closing arguments started Thursday July 11. So the jury probably already got the case on July 12. Maybe a verdict early next week then (I hope).

Witness testimony wraps up in 2007 Ahwatukee murder case

And for Niner, here's a 10% synopsis just for you!

Back in court Wednesday, the defense said the note is consistent with a lesser crime, not with premeditated murder.
“In the note, it says that ‘I killed the selfish b----' but it did not say that ‘I intended,’ or ‘knowingly did.’ He just did,” the defense said.

Closing arguments in the case start Thursday at 10:30 a.m.
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(LOL at the defense's argument. G didn't premeditate since he didn't write 'intended' or 'knowingly killed'. LOL)

"He just did (kill her)" really is quite the curious defense, lol. Wonder if he also argued that Grewal can't be held accountable for how he phrased his murder confession because English isn't his first language....

 

[Niner]

Thanks everyone for posting those items.

But for some reason - I have Thursday, 7/11 as dark - to be continued on Monday, 7/15. I must have read an article about that. See my post #92.

Maybe closing arguments start on Monday? I do have 7/8 & 7/9 - which Grewal was on the stand.