GUILTY MO - Elizabeth Olten, 9, St Martin's, 21 Oct 2009 #15

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vjlaw said:
Do you remember ILoveCookies? He posted the grandmother was there. I don't really know about the criminal aspects either. Reading the motion I am guessing the defense just wants the exact information the prosecution has just in case there was any amount of time she wasn't represented can be found out in this motion. Just fishin', maybe. JMO, the better defense does its job, the more airtight the case against her.
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I remember ILoveCookies and I believe you are correct that he said the grandmother was there. Maybe we can find it in some old posts?
 
I went back and read some of the old posts by ILoveCookies. This is from post #191 in thread 6 - I haven't found anything yet about when they finally questioned her but it sounds like it was an arranged meeting and I seem to remember he grandmother accompanied her:

Originally Posted by Jules71:
So per ILC, thr FBI wanted to question AB on Thurs night, but put it off until Fri morn. AB was not at school Fri, but LE found her outside of school with her BF and took her into custody by 10 am.

LE was invited into the home on Thurs and during their second visit is when they found the diary entry?

Posted by ILoveCookies:
No LE wanted to question her thursday morning but she wasn't in school. They find the note thursday night. Also thursday night they asked to speak with AB at the fbi headquarters in JC at 10 am fri morning.
 
The trial of Alyssa Bustamante has been pushed to September. Jury selection will now begin September 13.

Defense attorneys for Bustamante cited another trial as one of the main reasons they requested a continuance from the previously set June 1 trial date.

Bustamante's primary defense attorneys, Charlie Moreland, is representing another first degree murder case in Joplin. The trial in Joplin began earlier this month, but a situation caused the trial to last longer than expected.

http://www.connectmidmissouri.com/news/story.aspx?id=605097
 
This case is what got me to become a WSer and I still think about EO, AB and both of tehir families regularly. I hope the families are managing and that justice will be served.
 
Cole County Prosecutor Mark Richardson told Presiding Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce on Monday that she should “compel” Alyssa Bustamante’s lawyers “to disclose any expert mental health witness(es) that they intend to call at the trial.”

And Public Defenders Donald Catlett and Charles Moreland told Joyce on Thursday that prosecutors still have not responded to their initial requests for information, filed 18 months ago.
http://www.newstribune.com/news/2011/may/28/bustamante-paperwork-battle-continues/
 
JEFFERSON CITY, MO. -- The new state of the art Cole County Jail is now home to inmates, including 17-year-old Alyssa Bustamante.

Transport vans moved all of them from the old jail to the new one yesterday afternoon.

Alyssa Bustamante is charged with the first degree murder of 9-year old Elizabeth Olten in 2009.

She was 15 when officers arrested her and that had everything to do with why she wasn't kept in Cole County.

Bustamante stayed in the Morgan County Jail for nearly two years since the Morgan County Jail was better equipped to handle the teenager, but now she's back in the county where she's accused of committing the crime.

http://www.connectmidmissouri.com/news/story.aspx?id=649278
 
JEFFERSON CITY, MO -- Alyssa Bustamante's trial could be in jeopardy even before it begins, according to her attorneys.

Having already been pushed back once, Bustamante's trial is scheduled for Sept. 13th on charges of 1st degree murder and armed criminal action in the October 2009 stabbing and strangulation death of her 9-year-old neighbor Elizabeth Olten.

In court documents filed on Tuesday, the 17-year-old's defense team argues that Cole County Prosecutor Mark Richardson has ignored a request for discovery and failed to turn over the names of witnesses he plans to call at trial.

“The State's failure to both endorse its witnesses and provide written responses to the defense Requests for Discovery in a timely manner deprives Alyssa of her rights to a fair trial, due process, effective assistance of counsel, to fairly confront the witnesses against her, to compulsory process of witnesses, and would render any resulting punishment cruel, unusual and capricious,” defense attorneys Donald Catlett and Charles Moreland wrote in the court filing.

http://www.connectmidmissouri.com/news/story.aspx?id=653237
 
Judge delays trial again for teenaged murder suspect


Judge Joyce ruled that a pre-trial conference will be held in Cole County on January 9th, 2012 with jury selection beginning on Jan. 10th in Springflied. The Green County jury will then travel to Cole County for the trial.

Joyce said the trial is scheduled to being immediately after jury selection is completed.

Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce made the decision to delay the trial after meeting Tuesday morning with Cole County Prosecutor Mark Richardson and Bustamante's two public defenders in a closed-door meeting.

http://www.connectmidmissouri.com/news/story.aspx?id=654800

motion for discovery
http://www.connectmidmissouri.com/u...s/Stories/bustamante 2nd motion to compel.pdf

notice of entry - to extend time for testing
http://www.connectmidmissouri.com/uploadedFiles/krcg/News/Stories/judge joyce's entry - 8-23-11.pdf


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Bustamante trial pushed back to January

Also at the hearing, Catlett and Moreland said Prosecutor Richardson’s office has not turned over evidence as required by law. Richardson says he would comply with the judge’s order that it be turned over to the defense team two weeks before the trial. Moreland argues that a mere dump of documents would not be sufficient to meet what is required by the law, unless there was a list of witnesses and evidence that the prosecution planned to use in the trial.

Reporter Jeff Haldiman, who covered the hearing, says Bustamante was not in the courtroom Tuesday, but family members were, leading to heightened security both inside and outside the courtroom.

http://www.missourinet.com/2011/08/23/bustamante-trial-pushed-back-to-january/

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sounds like the defense wants to find out what the prosecution strategy is.
 
January 10, 2012 sure seems a long way away, doesn't it? I hope it has felt like a very long time for AB. My heart goes out to the Oltens
 
There's been quite a few articles in the last couple of days.

Bustamante's trial is being moved to the fed courthouse. I put all the news in the archive but a simple search will get you to the articles.
 
Alyssa Bustamante accepts plea deal

COLE COUNTY, MO -- Update: Monday 1/9/12 8:45pm

The decision to offer a plea deal may have hinged on a ruling KRCG reported last June.

A confession given by Bustamante to a highway patrol investigator and a juvenile officer was blocked by the court.

http://www.connectmidmissouri.com/news/story.aspx?id=705578#.Twu9j3osbnU

I don't like this at all....I really feel for Elizabeth's family. The article states that the judge could decide not accept the deal, no idea how likely that is though. I would imagine not very.
 
There is something seriously wrong with Alyssa. I'm shocked she will be released so early. And angry. :maddening:
 
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