Google News Alert for: Eastburn Murders
Army prosecutor: Jurors shouldn't hear 'acquittal'
WBTV - Charlotte,NC,USA
... of a soldier who was acquitted of the same murders in civilian court. ... in the 1985 deaths of Kathryn Eastburn and her two daughters, Erin and Kara. ...
Hennis prosecutors want no reference to acquittal
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville,NC,USA
Hennis, 51, is facing his third trial in the murders of Kathryn Eastburn and two of her daughters, 5-year-old Kara and 3-year-old Erin. ...
Google Blogs Alert for: Eastburn Murders
Army prosecutor: Jurors shouldn't hear word 'acquittal'
Hennis, 51, is charged with premeditated murder in connection with the 1985 fatal stabbings of Kathryn Eastburn, 31, and her two daughters, 3-year-old Erin and 5-year-old Kara. Investigators also said Eastburn was raped. ...
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Army prosecutor: Jurors shouldn't hear 'acquittal'
Master Sgt. Timothy B. Hennis is charged in the 1985 deaths of Kathryn Eastburn and her two daughters, Erin and Kara. His conviction and death sentence in civilian court was overturned on appeal, and the second jury acquitted him. Although he retired from the Army in 2004, he was recalled to ... FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) _ Military prosecutors want a judge to bar the word "acquittal" during the murder trial of a soldier who was acquitted of the same murders in civilian court. ...
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Sameera, lp1964, Samantha17, thank you all for the updates in this case. If you have links to articles or otherwise, would you post them or if any of you can steer me in the right direction to read, it would be very appreciated!
:blowkiss: Thanks again! Boyz_Mum
Thanks sameera! I never "google alerted" before, that's a handy tool!
I used "Tim Hennis" as my alert title (do you think that's too broad?)
Thanks for the assistance! :blowkiss:
The trial was scheduled to begin 15 September, but the Defence is now making another motion to delay the trial until January. The judge says he will make his decision on the matter in 1-2 weeks.
I'm going to be following this one. I still believe Tim Hennis to be innocent. Maybe I'm wrong and it will be proven by the DNA during the trial.
I believe I read somewhere that the trial is expected to start in September.
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/573385.html
More than two decades after a rape and triple homicide in Fayetteville, investigators apparently unearthed enough DNA evidence to persuade the Army to drag Tim Hennis out of retirement, put him on active duty at Fort Bragg and charge him yet again.
Army prosecutors might disclose that evidence next week. At a hearing that starts Wednesday at Fort Bragg, they will try to prove that Hennis should be tried for a third time for the 1985 murders of an Air Force wife and two of her daughters.
In 1986, Hennis was convicted and sentenced to die. In 1989, after the state Supreme Court ordered a new trial, he was acquitted. Now he might be tried again.
Scott Whisnant the author of "Innocent Victims, also made into a movie was very much on the side of Tim Hennis and refused to believe anything contrary to his beliefs. Scott interviewed me (a juror on the second trial) for his book, my name is in the book. At the time, I made the comment that if the jury could only know for sure that the semen was his, it would have been an entirely different verdict. Well, DNA testing wasn't being conducted in 1989, so the jury had to decide a verdict based upon known facts in the case and the decision was based upon there not being sufficient evidence to find Hennis guilty of the three murders and rape. The jury was qualified to sentence him to death if the verdict was found as "guilty". I have been haunted by this trial since then. Very bad feeling when the news came out that his DNA was found as part of the rape kit. This case has been a nightmare, but I research everything I can on it and will continue to do so until it is finally done.
I guess I shouldn't have said it was the defense asking for more time, because we really don't know. Could be the defense, could be the prosecution. However, 9 times out of 10, it's the defense asking for more time, because every delay is to their advantage.
That would be John Raupach. No, the composite sketch wasn't a dead ringer for him. It was a dead ringer for Tim Hennis, the man Patrick Cone clearly saw within four feet of him, under a streetlight.
John Raupach didn't commit this crime; the defense even admitted that he didn't. He was a seventeen-year-old high school student who happened to live in the neighborhood. He passed a polygraph and had an airtight alibi for the first bank transaction.
The defense used him to confuse the jurors in Hennis's retrial, and it worked!
Wow another delay? I am very interested cause like some of you I've read the book and yes the author was really believing in Tim Hennis. I would also love to see another book published.