Carol McKinley
@CarolAMcKinley
The
#DontheLucas trial is back on after 2 week break due to
#COVID19 . Today, a CBI agent says Jessica Martin, who first intended to find info on Lucas, then fell in love with him. She says Lucas told her a drug dealer killed
#KelsieSchelling right after she went missing.
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Up next for pros are two of
#kelsieschelling ‘s last bosses. Also waiting, a prostitute who exchanged text messages with
#donthelucas 4 -5 days after she disappeared.
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Colette Bordelon
@ColetteBordelon
BREAK: Before the jury entered, the prosecution talked about their witness order briefly.
#DontheLucas' mom, Sara Lucas, should testify on Friday. Additionally, we can expect more text message evidence today, and potentially tomorrow. This is the thread to follow:
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We also know the texts that should be presented today are between Lucas and Jessica Reeves from February 9, 10, and some on the 12. Prosecution calls these messages romantic; defense objected to admitting one related to oral sex. Reeves could take the stand today.
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The prosecution also plans to try and introduce text messages tomorrow from
#Lucas' phone that they allege were sent to prostitutes. They believe these are relevant to motive, intent, state of mind, and consciousness of guilt.
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The judge says messages during this time in early February of 2013 following
#Schelling's disappearance are relevant, but he wants to set a limiting instruction on those.
A limiting instruction, according to Cornell, is instructing the jury "to consider a piece of evidence for a specific purpose and ignore it for any other purpose."
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The first witness to take the stand is CBI Agent Kevin Torres. You may remember him as the lead investigator on
#Schelling's case, and he's testified once before in this trial already. He's following up on Jessica Martin's testimony, who was the last witness before the break.
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All sketches are drawn by Mejo Okon, by the way.
Martin is the woman who initially said she wanted to help find
#Schelling, but ended up falling in love with
#Lucas. Agent Torres says Martin and him made contact twice in 2016 - once that summer, and once in November.
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The first contact was regarding a psychic tip Martin said she had, regarding bones at a truck stop. Agent Torres followed up, and it turned out they were animal bones.
Then, when Martin reached out in November of 2016, Agent Torres said she had started communicating with #Lucas on Facebook to try and get information about #Schelling.
Agent Torres said he did not ask Martin to try and gather information from Lucas on behalf of the CBI. He says she was not being used as an informant, and told her to stop contacting Lucas.
But then, Agent Torres talked to Martin in January of 2017, and found out she had not stopped talking to Lucas. That's when she told him the story about "Dominic."
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Martin claims that in late December 2016, she was at Lucas' house, when a man named Dominic came in and called
#Lucas a murdered. According to Martin, he said "you're four years too late."
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The defense insinuated that Agent Torres tried to instill fear in Martin regarding Lucas. Then, in January 2017, after admitting she had been intimate with Lucas, Martin moved to Arizona.
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Then, according to Agent Torres, Lucas bought a one-way ticket to Arizona in November of 2017. Lucas was charged with
#Schelling's murder in December of 2017. Heading back inside the courtroom now.
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