kittythehare
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i just threw the link up ... awful, isn't it?Are we sure the jury instructions did not ask that they vote based on raw emotion?
From the article Kitty just posted:
"“As each family testified, it certainly affected you mentally and you associated it with whatever family was testifying at the time,” Bob said. “To hear that outpouring of emotion from family and friends, you associate with that. So first, it was one way and then you hear from the other family and it’s another way.”
LK Fox
But the US attorney’s office and Yingying family both say the efforts to find her are far from over
( I do not believe them)
i just threw the link up ... awful, isn't it?
Defense objected strenuously to a few videos from China of YY's friends describing her life while bringing in every possible relative of BC's as character witnesses...
I felt sick. I still do..
Here's the verdict form if anybody has the heart left to read it.
You will see that the jury found him guilty of all 3 charges that qualified for DP.
But they found a way around imposing the sentence for which they were selected.
Mind boggling!
Jury Verdict – #481 in United States v. Christensen (C.D. Ill., 2:17-cr-20037) – CourtListener.com
You will find that the only NO is future dangerousness--- their makey uppy diagnosis and character analysis!
Just in: Slim chance of ever finding Chinese scholar's body
by The Associated Press
Friday, July 19th 2019
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Illinois authorities have said the remains of a slain 26-year-old scholar from China may never be found despite a vow from prosecutors this week that the search will continue.
Brendt Christensen, a former physics doctoral student at the University of Illinois, abducted Yingying Zhang in 2017. Prosecutors say he beat her to death at his off-campus apartment, decapitated her and carried her away in a duffel bag.
Christensen was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole and Zhang's family begged him to reveal what he did with her body so her remains can be returned home.
But authorities believe that with his background in science, Christensen destroyed the remains. Evidence at his trial included an article Christensen downloaded before the killing called, "Beyond the Grave -- Understanding Human Decomposition."
Slim chance of ever finding Chinese scholar's body
**** Excuse me but if BC indeed possessed some science powers that would make him successful in concealing the body for this long, he wouldn't have had to Google this ***t like the rest of us peons. What are they thinking! ****
Are we sure the jury instructions did not ask that they vote based on raw emotion?
From the article Kitty just posted:
"“As each family testified, it certainly affected you mentally and you associated it with whatever family was testifying at the time,” Bob said. “To hear that outpouring of emotion from family and friends, you associate with that. So first, it was one way and then you hear from the other family and it’s another way.”
He continues to show himself to be a worse and worse individual. Still concerned with himself.Steve Beckett, family attorney on the radio this AM:
Defendants during sentencing will sometimes ask to be sent to a specific BOP facility. Judges will sometimes honor this request and recommend BOP house them where they request
Christensen requested to be sent to the Tucson, Arizona facility.
Michelle Zortman is currently living in Arizona.
Shadid declined to honor his request.
He won’t be walking the streets again. It’s just not happening. Things didn’t go that sideways in this case.on the wcia3 tv special, linked yesterday, Shahid said the request would be handled by the director of prisons or some such title...
He will probably get his request, he got everything else.
He'll probably get to walk the streets again too...
This little blurb is garbage.. He might have a background in Science, but he can't speed up time and change chemistry. Likely he dismembered her and found a way to disperse her. He also can't generate the chemicals to destroy her out of thin air. He'd have to buy them somehow. He'd have to buy them beforehand as well -and he'd have to have a location where he could do this undisturbed
That's key. I think the two who made a big deal about alcohol + antidepressants were the ones who wanted to spare him, BUT..... they didn't want their mercy leading to him getting out eventually and killing again, or killing in prison. When that aggravator was not found, and Shadid clarified that he would be in prison for life, future dangerousness was no longer an issue for them. they were free to vote for mercy, as they wanted. At some point during all this, someone pointed out that even in prison for life, BC could still be dangerous from inside to people on the outside. He might make friends in prison who might get out eventually and emulate him. Enough jurors were able to say that he wasn't "charismatic" enough to likely do this. That probably further ensured the two that their mercy wouldn't come back to haunt them and cost someone their life
So, convinced that BC wasn't a threat to anyone, and with enough other jurors agreeing with them on the lack of dangerousness, those two jurors were free to vote with their hearts.
I may be all wet, but those two additional mitigating factors had to be key. The fact that they were added means they must have been of critical importance to the process
Sad that those two jurors, when faced with the brutality of what he did and the remorselessness of what he did and continues to do to her family, could STILL let drugs and alcohol, and probably some other BS factors, outweigh the pain and suffering he has caused and continues to cause.
Even if YY'so remains are not recoverable, BC should admit what he did with them. He should at least answer her family's questions.
AND soon I hope, and when it hits the news we will be there.
MOO.
I think there has to be a limit to the so called mitigating factors jurors can fabricate in sentencing deliberations. You mean to tell me that as a juror, I can listen to all the facts and evidence presented by the state and the defense, read the jury's instructions, and then write in my verdict form :
"I think aliens abducted and mind-controlled the defendant, then dropped him off from the spaceship and made him kill. The defendant has no prior offenses, so it was the aliens."
There has to be limits , some standard, by which these juror-concocted "mitigating factors" are allowed or disallowed. Someone has to look at them to make sure they are reasonable.
He won’t be walking the streets again. It’s just not happening. Things didn’t go that sideways in this case.
BC's own father said in his testimony that he could accept a sentence of death.
While I'm sure he wouldn't really actually vote for it, you could make the argument that his own dad would have been more likely to vote for the death sentence than these two jurors who were persuaded by the totally concocted "It was the rum plus the antidepressants!!! The rum plus the antidepressants made me do it!!!!!"- mitigating factor....................