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http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_19585885
Suspect in Hayward nursing student slaying indicted by grand jury
OAKLAND -- The often-delayed case of Giselle Esteban moved out of the slow lane as prosecutors secured a grand jury indictment, clearing a major hurdle en route to a trial for the woman suspected of killing nursing student Michelle Le.
The indictment means that the case won't have to go through a preliminary hearing -- a potentially lengthy endeavor that prosecutor Butch Ford said he wanted to avoid.
"It's much quicker -- a preliminary has been known to take up to three years," Ford said Tuesday.
Grand jury proceedings are held in secret, and jurors met for three days starting Dec. 12, Ford said. Jurors handed down the indictment Wednesday.
Some answers for you from the article just posted:Can you get recent video from Google earth, Bing Mapquest,
of the day of the disappearance and show whose vehicle drove back there.
What type of weapon caused the death, blunt force trauma or sharp entry wound.
Could a rock be at the scene if a Knife was it thrown toward the water.
the scene is strange its a cliff on one side you wouldnt drive there at night.
Was she tied up
Was there lots of blood at the scene. Well it stay in the earth.
How long can blood last on a object when it is exposed to the elements.
Did they get any tire tracks prints.
it had been a long time but if hers was the only vehicle could there be prints.
Is there evidence of the area on Michelle's car.(Dirt, weeds etc)
is there evidence of the area at GEs house or car.
Did they take any of the logs for prints.
Possible dna on logs
Was she tied up
was she wrapped up in anything
How did she find this area (GE)
is it on her computer google maps etc
Does her cell phone show her in the area often.
Where does she work
does her work involve this area
Could she have entered from the golf club side
Does she have any recent scars that could have left trace elements in Michelles car
Under a door latch, under a seat etc
How was the body positioned, was it sending a message
revenge, embarrassment, or just quick leave her and hide her
Has she ever returned to the scene after the fact
once again, onstar,fastrak cell towers etc they all track vehicles.
More news today....Eric Kurhi has been doing a good job with the write up's and I saw him Michelle's first vigil.
This is just some parts of the article....
http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_19648388?source=most_viewed
By Eric Kurhi
Hayward Daily Review
Posted: 12/30/2011 04:23:38 PM PST
Updated: 12/30/2011 10:40:03 PM PST
According to the 470-page transcript, Esteban stated that Le had "dug her own grave" and "would not be around much longer" in text messages sent to Scott Marasigan, the father of Esteban's child, who was also a friend of Le. Prosecutor Butch Ford told the jury that Esteban believed that Marasigan was having an affair with Le, and could not be convinced otherwise.
Marasigan testified that he dated Le for two or three weeks several years ago, but they never had a sexual relationship.
Esteban began attracting attention among the staff at Samuel Merritt University Kaiser in Oakland, the site of the nursing program where Le, who lived in San Mateo, was enrolled.
One staff member testified that Esteban showed up at her office to inquire about programs and after her visit, a security badge was missing. The employee later identified Esteban as the woman who gained access to to offices and was caught on camera going through files. The missing badge was later found in Le's car.
Another employee received an "odd call" around the same time from someone claiming to be an instructor and asking for the names of students doing their clinical rotation at the hospital, as well as their schedules.
"I told her, well, if you are the skills lab instructor, you would know that," said the witness.
Hayward Detective Fraser Ritchie testified that he questioned Esteban. She acknowledged she had been at Kaiser to sign up for prenatal insurance and said she saw Le at a distance on an overhead pedestrian bridge. Under questioning by the detective, her story changed. After initially denying that she spoke to Le, she later said that because she wasn't taking her medication, she suffered blackouts.
Other evidence included Le's missing cellphone, which prosecutors said Esteban brought to an Apple store and had its memory erased the day after Le disappeared. Records show the phone's memory was cleared -- and the password reset -- by someone named "Giselle Marasigan."
Le's phone was later found under a back seat floor mat in Marasigan's car.
Marasigan testified that he believes Esteban stole his extra set of keys when she stopped by his house in March and "feigned a scene." Those keys were never recovered.
Esteban gave birth in November, while in custody, and told a television station shortly after Le's disappearance that Marasigan is the father of her second child.
In the transcripts, Marasigan acknowledges that he had been intimate with Esteban during what he described as an "off-and-on" post-breakup period, but he knew of at least one other person who may have fathered the child.
The murder trial of Giselle Esteban started Monday after prosecutors charged her with killing a nursing student because she blamed the victim for wrecking her relationship with her daughter's father.
The courthouse in Oakland was packed, mostly with family and friends of Michelle Le, whose body was found on Sept. 17, 2011, four months after the Samuel Merritt University in Oakland nursing student disappeared from the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Hayward.
Prosecutors opened their statements by showing a picture of Le smiling, and then a glimpse of the surveillance photo taken near the parking garage were she was last seen.
Esteban, a 28-year-old Union City woman who attended high schoolwith Le in San Diego, was charged with Le's murder on Sept. 8, 2011, -- before Le's body was found -- based on DNA evidence and cellphone records.
Posted: 8:25 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1, 2012 KTVU.com and Wires
OAKLAND, Calif.
The defense lawyer for Giselle Esteban didn't deny the prosecution's allegation Monday that the Union City woman killed nursing student
Michelle Le, who disappeared from Hayward in May 2011 and whose body was found four months later.
Defense attorney Andrea Auer admitted that the prosecution has "a mountain of evidence" against Esteban, 28, but told jurors that she doesn't think it will be able to prove that Esteban committed either first- or second-degree murder for the death of Le, who had been her close friend in high school and in their college years in the Bay Area. more at link: http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/defense-lawyer-esteban-acted-heat-passion-when-kil/nSRFm/
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/first+degree+murderfirst degree murder n. although it varies from state to state, it is generally a killing which is deliberate and premeditated (planned, after lying in wait, by poison or as part of a scheme), in conjunction with felonies such as rape, burglary, arson, involving multiple deaths, the killing of certain types of people (such as a child, a police officer, a prison guard, a fellow prisoner), or with certain weapons, particularly a gun. The specific criteria for first degree murder are established by statute in each state and by the United States Code in federal prosecutions. It is distinguished from second degree murder in which premeditation is usually absent, and from manslaughter which lacks premeditation and suggests that at most there was intent to harm rather than to kill.
I know, I laughed when I saw that!So, is her defense that she just happened to be near Le's vehicle in the parking garage of Kaiser Permanente with a weapon and flew into a rage upon seeing Ms. Le? :waitasec: