MS - Jessica Chambers, 19, Panola County, Dec 2014 #3 *MISTRIAL*

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In the video interview, found at the link, DA Champion declares that the 4th Circuit Judge Gerald Chatham will not be back in Panola County until June [2018].


This was another frustrating thing to me about the DA. His spoken words are not as clarified and articulate as one may assume them to be when considering his education and experience.


Further, the DA states, at 01:15 in the interview, in regards to the Jury:

"Their service is their service."

What in the heck does that even mean?

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/...murder-suspect-after-miss-mistrial/769945001/

QT ... spent more than a year in the DeSoto County Jail before his capital murder trial ...., is back in Panola County ...
Champion said Tuesday Tellis will most likely stay there unless Louisiana decides it wants him back for court action in that state.

Stay where? In Panola County? Or in DeSoto County? Or in Mississippi?


http://www.clarionledger.com/story/...ial-jessica-chambers-burning-death/794508001/
 
While I'm busy harping on the DA's Office, may as well announce other irritating issues that belong single-handedly on Panola County's Prosecutor's and the Sheriff's Dept.

I cannot go dig up the newsreel, so JMHO. Period. Full stop.

In their first presser, following the murder of JC, it was announced, to the public, for us not to expect an arrest anytime soon. How did they know that information at that time?

During the trial, the Judge made a declaratory statement of his impression when he stated that the trial was progressing at "Warp Speed." What was the hurry? They rushed the testimony of their valued witnesses.

Was FBI Agent Blunt's testimony more harmful than good? Admittedly, a question or two thus a reply or two may have been missed. The FBI Agent introduced in March of 2015, was not the same FBI Agent testifying. By that I mean, Agent Blunt did not elaborate on his testimony. His statements were not compelling. He appeared not to be forthcoming with his knowledge.

I pondered at the time, if the DAs Office had not reviewed his testimony in preparation for the trial. At another point, I thought we had a "hostile witness" for the Prosecution. It was my impression that Agent Blunt wished he was anywhere else than in a Panola County Courtroom.

In contemplating the situation, to the best of my ability, I feel something transpired between March 2015 and Oct. 2017 and may never know what, if anything, occurred to change his behavior.
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Here you go, DeDee:

True Crime Radio Podcast

Lisa Chambers's interview begins at around 06:30.

RH (and girlfriend AH, different H) may be who you recalled having an altercation with JC over, shall we say, a bulk pharmaceutical transaction? His "final" mugshot was taken on 09/03/2015 by the Canton PD in Madison County, MS when he was booked on a shoplifting charge. He and his brother, LH, had at one time both been inmates at Parchman when the brother broke out in 2003. RH was serving a sentence on a drug charge, brother LH was serving life without parole for crimes dating back 20 years, including a murder in Tate County in 1983. Part of the escape investigation included listening to recordings of phone calls made between the two brothers. Like the saying goes, a family that serves time together stays together, at least until one escapes.

Anyway, RH succumbed to cancer not long after his arrest in 2015. RIP

Regards,
Clouseau

All along, for years, we were led to believe that Jessica spoke to her mother on the phone from 6:48 until 7:12. For years, we attempted to work the timeline of Jessica attending a "party" with those minutes LD stated she was online with Jessica. We entertained theory, after theory, in an effort to make the pieces fit the puzzle. We did not know the pieces would never fit because we were misled all along.

In fact, JC intended to take her vehicle to Memphis to celebrate a birthday with her faux friend, Kesha. We know because Jessica purchased $14 for gas in her car. Ali Alsani, the young owner of M&Ms, during SMS public interviews, stated she usually put $5 worth of gas in her car but that one fateful evening, she put an atypical amount of fuel in her car.

Recall the testimony, we were unaware of, when QT, rushed across the street to M&Ms, and tossed a ten dollar bill into Jessica's car for her. Jessica intended to have a party for Kesha in Memphis. But, inexplicably, Kesha, ironically, had no more minutes available on her phone, thereby, there was no party in Memphis. Jessica was the party.

In one of LDs last SMS interviews, she declared, once again, that during the final hour of her daughter's life, that she still had the time of the call on her phone's history. LD also, further declared, as heard in the podcast, that the background noise, during those twenty minutes, was unusually quiet.

Typically, JC, her mother stated, would have music blaring, or chattering of other individuals, in the background but this time, this final communication with her child, the background noise was atypical.

However, during the first hour of testimony of Jessica's alleged killer's trial, the official documentation of LD communicating, via the phone with her daughter, was truthfully a mere 16 seconds in duration.
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FYI, I contacted QT’s defense lawyers and they replied to my message. .

I told them I believe Jessica said “Car Wreck” which is why she shrugged her shoulders and didn’t answer when she was asked for eric/derrick’s last name. I also told him that according to the timeline in the Clarion-Ledger, Quinton and Jess had been making circles in her car between 10-11 am Saturday morning which can seriously damage her vehicle.

According to DA John Champion, QT would likely remain in the DeSoto County Jail until his case is retried unless he is transferred back to Louisiana. When I searched for QT's at the De Soto County Jail, his name didn’t come up; however, when I searched for him in Louisiana, I found him.

https://www.vinelink.com/#/searchResults/1
I think Jessica of what she could vocalize which had to be so hard to understand. One of the responder wife's said he said it sounded like a deer. I think she was saying a wreck. She woke up with her car in flames next to a tree. Her brain would think that especially after being knocked out. It is a shame a murderer will walk because of pure ignorance. He will murder again and how horrible that is. Truth.
 
I agree. I think she had no idea what had happened because he choked her out, she was unconscious, and when she finally came to it was because the car (and she herself) were on fire.

Otherwise, why would she just sit in her empty car for 15 or so min while her killer walked to his sister's house, borrowed her SUV, drove it to the shed behind his mother's house, got the gas can, then drove back to where he left the car with JC in it? And why would she just sit in her car while her killer doused the vehicle with gasoline and wait for him to light it?

So I think she was saying "a wreck" when asked who did this and that's why it sounds like she's saying "Eric." Makes perfect sense. She didn't know how the car came to be on fire, she didn't know how it ended up off the road, so she assumed she had been in a wreck. You can't get "Quinton" or "Tellis" from what she said. Prosecutors should revamp their theory as to what she said and suggest to the responders and the jury she was saying "a wreck."
 

Thank you, MsArk.

From the link:
“If you look at this case, none of our facts are contradictory,” Champion said ..... “They didn’t produce an expert to contradict any of our phone data.”

Phone data, ...., put Tellis in the same place as Chambers on the night she was doused with gasoline, set on fire and left to die in Courtland, Mississippi.
 
All along, for years, we were led to believe that Jessica spoke to her mother on the phone from 6:48 until 7:12. For years, we attempted to work the timeline of Jessica attending a "party" with those minutes LD stated she was online with Jessica. We entertained theory, after theory, in an effort to make the pieces fit the puzzle. We did not know the pieces would never fit because we were misled all along.

In fact, JC intended to take her vehicle to Memphis to celebrate a birthday with her faux friend, Kesha. We know because Jessica purchased $14 for gas in her car. Ali Alsani, the young owner of M&Ms, during SMS public interviews, stated she usually put $5 worth of gas in her car but that one fateful evening, she put an atypical amount of fuel in her car.

Recall the testimony, we were unaware of, when QT, rushed across the street to M&Ms, and tossed a ten dollar bill into Jessica's car for her. Jessica intended to have a party for Kesha in Memphis. But, inexplicably, Kesha, ironically, had no more minutes available on her phone, thereby, there was no party in Memphis. Jessica was the party.

In one of LDs last SMS interviews, she declared, once again, that during the final hour of her daughter's life, that she still had the time of the call on her phone's history. LD also, further declared, as heard in the podcast, that the background noise, during those twenty minutes, was unusually quiet.

Typically, JC, her mother stated, would have music blaring, or chattering of other individuals, in the background but this time, this final communication with her child, the background noise was atypical.

However, during the first hour of testimony of Jessica's alleged killer's trial, the official documentation of LD communicating, via the phone with her daughter, was truthfully a mere 16 seconds in duration.
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Thank you DeDee for all of that. I have always been of the opinion that this is not as it seems. Something else is afoot. I am not one to bash LE but we have not been told the truth.

The drug culture is very large in that tiny place. It's a highway. There have been references as such. From Mexico to Canada. No I don't have any links - me the links guy. :shame:

But I know you have held close to this case. Don't we get the feeling that Jessica would not have hooked up with QT, even just with his age and all?

Fire is very personal and I still think it was a message but I feel in my heart of hearts that LE will never let on as to who QT is connected with. If for nothing else why would a cute young cheerleader be running blocks with a tug like him. And then he tossed her a fin to get gas for a party that never was. They knew things. Her faux friend.

Set up from the get go.
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She knew something.
 
I realize the proceedings and votes of Grand Juries are kept secret, so we will never know what DA Champion presented to this one in order to get it to hand down an indictment for capital murder. But we do know his presentation to a group of peers got their thumbs up to proceed.

So how did things go so wrong? Incompetent jurors, incompetent prosecution, over-selling a case with rather tenuous DNA evidence? If any one of the three, one wonders how a retrial this summer will have any different outcome.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/suspect-indicted-in-case-of-mississippi-teen-jessica-chambers-burned-alive/


JMO,
Clouseau:facepalm:
 
I realize the proceedings and votes of Grand Juries are kept secret, so we will never know what DA Champion presented to this one in order to get it to hand down an indictment for capital murder. But we do know his presentation to a group of peers got their thumbs up to proceed.

So how did things go so wrong? Incompetent jurors, incompetent prosecution, over-selling a case with rather tenuous DNA evidence? If any one of the three, one wonders how a retrial this summer will have any different outcome.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/suspec...ssissippi-teen-jessica-chambers-burned-alive/


JMO,
Clouseau:facepalm:

The defense did their job by presenting reasonable doubt. The whole Eric/Derek issue is what killed it. I don't see how a retrial will change that.
 
The defense did their job by presenting reasonable doubt. The whole Eric/Derek issue is what killed it. I don't see how a retrial will change that.

I would suggest the DA use two approaches to undermine the previously successful “Phantom Eric” defense. Simply IGNORING it is not one of them:

First, have expert witness after expert witness testify that any speech heard from Jessica after such extensive burns would have been difficult to hear and difficult to understand. Show autopsy photos, diagrams, audiograms, even films of burn survivors with similar burns to the face and throat to demonstrate their inability to speak coherently. Note that these eye witnesses dutifully reported what they heard. The sounds were probably consistent, but incoherent. Three-way communication was not practiced: (a) statement is made by the 1st party; (b) statement is repeated by the 2nd party; (c) 1st party confirms statement was repeated correctly. This type of communication is used in crucial situations, such as between airline pilots and traffic controllers, to avoid costly misunderstandings.

Second, observe that this “Phantom Eric” who the defense wants to substitute for their client in this murder case has no known address, no known history with the victim, and no witness had ever seen him with the victim in the weeks, days, and hours leading up to her murder. This “Phantom Eric” was not only very skillful in covering his tracks and avoiding detection by local, state, and federal LE in the hours and days following the crime, he has managed to elude detection to this date. The obvious conclusion is that there is no such person.

Some here on WS have suggested Jessica might have been trying to utter “A wreck, a wreck” to explain her burning vehicle. There is no way that fire, which totally engulfed her vehicle within such a short time, was anything but arson from an accelerant (gasoline according to the ATF lab).

JMO,
Clouseau
 
I admit I know next to nothing about tracking cell phones. BUT just because 2 people's cell phones ping off the same tower, does that mean those 2 people are definitely together? Or does it mean they are in the same general area of that cell phone tower? Courtland cannot be a big enough place to have too many cell phone towers. I would think everybody's cell phone in Courtland pinged off the same tower. No?
 
The defense did their job by presenting reasonable doubt. The whole Eric/Derek issue is what killed it. I don't see how a retrial will change that.

It was the prosecution who shot themselves in the foot with little assistance by the Defense. After LD testified briefly, the DA brought on witness after witness among the first responders to the witness stand. Each one said basically the same thing. They heard Eric or Derek.

The highly traumatized Fire Chief, CH, attempted to explain to the jury that his report, was written while under direct orders to produce it before going home. His thoughts were still foggy, he explained through his tears. His brain had not had the needed time to organize thoughts and visions of the intense horror he witnessed.

This once young, vibrant man, who became a shell of who he was prior, held Jessica's hand, as she lay dying, until the ambulance took her to the helicopter.

Sheriff Darby insisted the first responders have their reports on his desk within hours of the event. Sheriff Darby was never at the scene of the crime. Had he been, I'm sure his approach would have been conducted differently.

It is one thing if a first responder goes to a robbery gone wrong to tend to a dying victim than it was for these young men to see a young, beautiful lady whose singed hair stood straight out while her parched body was scorched and burned. One described seeing Jessica as if she were a Zombie in the Woods.

The crime scene terrified them. One went to his vehicle to retrieve a firearm because they were hypervigilant by not knowing what to expect.

After days of hearing Eric or Derek's name on the stand, several of us took to Twitter and created a tweetstorm that had Jessica's name trending on Twitter. In an effort to show there was no Eric or Derek involved, our tweets showed the true relationship of Keisha and JC. Images were tweeted of Ali with QTs sister. Images of QTs involvement in the local gang activity were tweeted. The same images have been posted throughout these threads.

The Defense was quite clever in dressing QT for trial with high neck Tshirts under this dress shirts in a devious effort to hide his body's gangland tattoos.
 
I admit I know next to nothing about tracking cell phones. BUT just because 2 people's cell phones ping off the same tower, does that mean those 2 people are definitely together? Or does it mean they are in the same general area of that cell phone tower? Courtland cannot be a big enough place to have too many cell phone towers. I would think everybody's cell phone in Courtland pinged off the same tower. No?

The IT Specialist created a "War Room". All data gathered went to that room. He was an absolute expert witness in his field. One statement I recall him making was, "Their cell phones were on top of each other at the Crime Scene." Through cell tower data, he was able to explain the complex data in layman's terms as best he could.

QT was tried by a Jury of his peers. There is no way all 12 jurors understood the complexity of the ITs testimony. A guess may be that one, possibly, two of them caught the basics of his work.

Meet Paul, the IT Specialist who testified about the cell phone data.

Jessica Chambers IT.jpg

Jessica IT Specialist.jpg

Jessica Trial IT Specialist.jpg
 
I admit I know next to nothing about tracking cell phones. BUT just because 2 people's cell phones ping off the same tower, does that mean those 2 people are definitely together? Or does it mean they are in the same general area of that cell phone tower? Courtland cannot be a big enough place to have too many cell phone towers. I would think everybody's cell phone in Courtland pinged off the same tower. No?

New1 -- That would be true if the ping were simply a non-dimensional time record of contact between a phone and a tower. But more data is recorded than just the time and number. An estimate is made by the tower of the bearing (direction) and range (distance) of the cell phone signal, which is mobile, relative to the tower, which of course is stationary. Thus, the cell phone location can be calculated, approximately, for each point in time it is recorded as active. Unfortunately, those estimates are not too accurate, and certainly cannot discriminate down to the level of whether two phones are within, say, the same car or the same building. Those estimates can also be affected by such things as the weather, terrain, buildings, and even strength of the signal.

There is also an added complexity of the victim having one cell phone carrier and the accused having a different carrier, and those two companies not always using the same cell towers. Also, it is easier to pinpoint a phone location if it is in range of more than one tower at a time using something called triangulation, which makes the tower's distance estimates less critical and relies instead on the intersection of two different bearings. But as you've pointed out, this is a rural area of Mississippi, where cell towers are few and far between, mostly along Interstate corriders.

The expert who analyzed the cell tower data was able to determine to his and the prosecution's satisfaction that Jessica's and her murderer's phones could be tracked and correlated to known locations throughout the last day of her life. That tracking analysis proved that the murderer had purposely not been forthcoming with the MBI (state investigators) about his whereabouts during four different interviews, one conducted in Batesville a few days after the murder, and the three others about one year later while he was incarcerated in LA. As the interrogators "helped" his memory of that day by gradually revealing to him what they already knew from their analysis of his and Jessica's cell phone data, he was suddenly able to recall that, yes, maybe he had been with Jessica several times on the day of her murder. Imagine that.

Welcome to WS,
Inspector Clouseau
 
That USMC KC-130T plane crash last summer was approximately 75 miles SE of Courtland. Folks are planning a memorial near the spot in time for the one year anniversary. Here is a link about it, including the address for donations:

Monument

It has now been EIGHT months since that crash in clear weather, with the loss of all on board, fifteen Marines and a Navy Corpsman. Still no word about the cause. Why the silence?

Regards,
Clouseau
 
<SNIP-EZ-VOUS>

The Defense was quite clever in dressing QT for trial with high neck Tshirts under this dress shirts in a devious effort to hide his body's gangland tattoos.

Don't forget those studious looking glasses worn by Quentin "Clark Kent" Tellis, which were oddly enough missing during his televised plea hearing (without a jury). Very effective. Wouldn't hurt a fly.

Regards,
Clou
 
That USMC KC-130T plane crash last summer was approximately 75 miles SE of Courtland. Folks are planning a memorial near the spot in time for the one year anniversary. Here is a link about it, including the address for donations:

Monument

It has now been EIGHT months since that crash in clear weather, with the loss of all on board, fifteen Marines and a Navy Corpsman. Still no word about the cause. Why the silence?

Regards,
Clouseau

Please forgive my replying to my own post, but ran across this article in the USNI News which might hint at a possible cause of the fatal KC-130T Marine Corps crash: propeller failure. The US Navy shares the same model aircraft, all of which have been grounded since that crash last summer. This expedited funding from Congress certainly leads one to believe it is for an important issue for that older model:

Congress Accelerates Funding

Regards,
Clouseau
 
I was wondering "where" I got a June 11th date for trial to restart:

MsArk said:
Quinton Tellis&#8217; new trial is set to begin June 11.

http://wreg.com/2018/01/18/retrial-i...begin-in-june/

Wondering why they pushed it 3 months...

Also I've looked up Panola County and he's not in there. I looked a DeSoto County jail, and he's not there either. Anyone know "where" he is now?

Or if you have a court site I can look and see if he has any pretrial hearings that I would like to keep track of.

TIA! :wave:
 
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