Deceased/Not Found IL - Yingying Zhang, 26, Urbana, 9 June 2017 #10 *Still Missing*

[kittythehare]

2 sealed documents have just been submitted.
Nos. 473 and 474.
Have no idea what this can possibly mean.
Anybody?

 

[kittythehare]

good news
The jury will break at 5 PM tonight-- resuming tomorrow at 9 AM
@WCIA3


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Ben Zigterman

@bzigterman
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Jury plans to recess at 5pm and return tomorrow at 9am

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Matt Masterson

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No sentence today. The jury will break at 5 p.m. and resume tomorrow morning at 9 am

 

[Spellbound]

Bc killed not just yyz, but her entire family. It will live with the family life's forever.

Remembering the family's pain

 

[AnemoneBrown]

Research doesn't aim to make guaranteed predictions, Kitty. Science is not fortune-telling. What science does is help us identify patterns so we can then make predictions, but of course there are always going to be aberrations and outliers. Sure. Science deals in probabilities not in certainties.

Not sure how this is developing in Ireland but in the US Trial Consulting has become a bona fide cottage industry. Many are disturbed by how accurately jury profilers and trial strategy consultants can predict juror behavior. Here is an article in case you want to know more about this: Do Trial Consultants Spell the End of Justice?

That theory did not play out in the Charleston church killer's DP hearing.

Prob with this case is that it received v poor bug media coverage, all the local media that covered it were cited and threatened and blamed so they had to be far more conservative and tame in their reportage because their publications were under threat from his defense.
So we have no descriptions at all of the jury and how they appear to be responding to evidence.
It's impossible to call it,
Usually by now, we'd know that juror no 8 was fussing with his shoes and juror 11 was chewing gum or whatever.
This is utterly blank

 

[Spellbound]

Thanks for all the updates, as always. See you tomorrow.

 

[Raptors001]

No amount of Drano could erase what they say happened [in the bathroom]" she says. AUSA Miller would later dispute this claim in the government's rebuttal

BS. Most blood can be washed down the drain, and if he didn't run the water long enough, then the drano he used would eventually deal with what was left. Moreover, porcelain and tile surfaces can be cleaned much more stringently with more powerful cleaners, and you can leave nothing behind. Much easier to get rid of blood off of these surfaces and destroy all leftover DNA than it is on fabrics and porous surfaces where material can soak in, and where you might easily miss where it has wicked to -especially underneath the fabric.

He researched it. That why he took her to the tub.

 

[dm92]

You are right. And maybe it will also hurt his ego to not be infamous enough to get the DP. Instead, he will be just another inmate. I'm warming up to this.

The family wants death. I want what they want. I want them to have *some* measure of satisfaction in all of this. I think they will be crushed and heartbroken if he is allowed to live.

 

[Raptors001]

LOL.... Yeah, right.....



Yeah, right. BC never linked sex and violence before. Sure. I'm sure it went down in his head just like this....

"WOW!!! Terra opened up a whole new world for me!!! I can't believe it!!! Violence can be part of sex!!!!!! Wow! Think of all the avenues to explore!!!!! Why, I think I'll start off by kidnapping raping and killing some random small woman I can pull off the street! Thanks Bunny! The sky is the limit!!!!!!!!!!!"

You have *got* to be kidding me.........

I can't imagine any one wanting to do all that. That is f up. Just lynch him already.

 

[kittythehare]

LIVE: Christensen jury to continue deliberations Thursday

The jury had sent him a note asking if they could leave at 5 p.m., to which he wrote "you may" and that he would see them tomorrow at 9 a.m.

Lawyers for both sides seemed to be in a good mood as they waited. Shadid told them there was no need for them to be in court at 9 a.m., just when something happens. He also said the alternate jurors should still show up, but he won't keep them in the courthouse.

 

[kittythehare]

Brendt Christensen Jury Deliberations Begin After Lengthy Closing Arguments

Pollock asked the 12-person jury to consider mercy and spare her client, claiming he sought help for his homicidal thoughts in the weeks and months before he killed Zhang. She showed jurors pictures of Christensen growing up in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and talked about the good deeds he’s done throughout his life.

“We have stood with Brendt for almost two years,” she said, walking over to the defense table to stand behind Christensen, who was crying. “He is a whole person, not just the worst thing he did.”
(he was crying)

 

[kittythehare]

AP report on the day Jury deliberates death penalty in Chinese scholar's slaying


Brent Christensen’s attorney, Elisabeth Pollock, teared up during closing arguments in the penalty phase in U.S. District Court in Peoria, at one point walking behind her 30-year-old client and putting her hands on his shoulders.

But prosecutors reminded jurors of a secret FBI recording in which Christensen laughed as he described luring 26-year-old Yingying Zhang into his car when she was running late to sign an apartment lease on June 9, 2017. He later raped, choked and stabbed her as she fought back, then beat her to death with a bat and cut off her head. Her body was never found.

“Evil does exist,” prosecutor Eugene Miller told jurors. “What the defendant did was evil.”

Pollock sought to humanize Christensen, telling jurors how he once bought a stuffed toy his sister wanted using his allowance money.

 

[kittythehare]

Jurors heard about three-and-a-half hours of closing statements before moving to their deliberation room at the federal courthouse in Peoria. The special jury form they have to fill out is about 27 pages long. It’s already led to a series of three technical questions being sent to U.S. District Judge Jim Shadid.

Jury Begins Deliberations On Life Sentence Or Death Penalty For Brendt Christensen

 

[LadyL]

Remembering the family's pain

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heartwrenching

 

[LadyL]

The family wants death. I want what they want. I want them to have *some* measure of satisfaction in all of this. I think they will be crushed and heartbroken if he is allowed to live.

If the family wants death, then I want death too.

 

[Raptors001]

AP report on the day Jury deliberates death penalty in Chinese scholar's slaying


Brent Christensen’s attorney, Elisabeth Pollock, teared up during closing arguments in the penalty phase in U.S. District Court in Peoria, at one point walking behind her 30-year-old client and putting her hands on his shoulders.

But prosecutors reminded jurors of a secret FBI recording in which Christensen laughed as he described luring 26-year-old Yingying Zhang into his car when she was running late to sign an apartment lease on June 9, 2017. He later raped, choked and stabbed her as she fought back, then beat her to death with a bat and cut off her head. Her body was never found.

“Evil does exist,” prosecutor Eugene Miller told jurors. “What the defendant did was evil.”

Pollock sought to humanize Christensen, telling jurors how he once bought a stuffed toy his sister wanted using his allowance money.

He will be laughing if he gets away with life

 

[Raptors001]

AP report on the day Jury deliberates death penalty in Chinese scholar's slaying


Brent Christensen’s attorney, Elisabeth Pollock, teared up during closing arguments in the penalty phase in U.S. District Court in Peoria, at one point walking behind her 30-year-old client and putting her hands on his shoulders.

But prosecutors reminded jurors of a secret FBI recording in which Christensen laughed as he described luring 26-year-old Yingying Zhang into his car when she was running late to sign an apartment lease on June 9, 2017. He later raped, choked and stabbed her as she fought back, then beat her to death with a bat and cut off her head. Her body was never found.

“Evil does exist,” prosecutor Eugene Miller told jurors. “What the defendant did was evil.”

Pollock sought to humanize Christensen, telling jurors how he once bought a stuffed toy his sister wanted using his allowance money.

He changed since then

 

[Laughing]

He will be laughing if he gets away with life

More like smirking. Arrogant!

Did anyone find about about book/media profits? Can BD make $$$ if he sells a book/article???

JMHO YMMV

 

[Raptors001]

heartwrenching

It is not fake reaction unlike bc

 

[trunkizback]

Remembering the family's pain

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This picture ( and especially the video ) is bang stamped into my brain. Think about this. Here it is...a little over 2 years....and this poor woman still has this much anguish!! It's unbearable.

 

[kittythehare]

here's the jury instructions
Jury Instructions – #475 in United States v. Christensen (C.D. Ill., 2:17-cr-20037) – CourtListener.com