Trial Date Set/Pre-Trial Discussion

[Melanie]

OMGosh I didn't recognize him. Who's that. Then I had to go back and find his mugshot! I'm so glad he's being treated like garbage in prison (obviously). what's he gonna look like in another 5?



Mel

 

[ynotdivein]

Wonder what [Unusual Person] thinks of lover-boy now...

Not sure what forensics they were awaiting to push back the trial date--but let's get this one started. Sherri, Garrett and Gavin have waited for justice long enough.

 

[UdbCrzy2]

http://www.bnd.com/2011/02/28/1610352/coleman-trial-set-to-begin-april.html

WATERLOO -- The murder trial for Christopher Coleman will begin April 11, a judge decided Monday.
During a hearing at the Monroe County Courthouse, Circuit Judge Milton Wharton heard from Coleman's lawyers, who had requested more time to test new DNA evidence that had surfaced. The trial was supposed to begin earlier this month.

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I heard on the local news that they were going to seat 2-juries; one for death penalty and one non-death penalty. I guess that's to take care of what's going on in Illinois over the death penalty law.

 

[Kimster]

I hope they keep that date! :waiting:

 

[Melanie]

I hope they keep that date! :waiting:

Me too -- why can't he just take LWOP? I know there's a debate on the death penalty, but he's going to get LWOP for killing Sheri, Garrett, and Gavin - regardless. Why go throuh the trial!

Is he just waiting for the death penalty debate to sort itself out? If I were him, I'd take a plea than have to stand before a DP case.

MOO

Mel

 

[Kimster]

I know what you mean. This is truly a slam dunk case. He's delusional if he thinks he has a chance at trial.

 

[ynotdivein]

Sorry 'bout that Kimster. Thanks for not :ufo: ing me!

 

[ynotdivein]

I heard on the local news that they were going to seat 2-juries; one for death penalty and one non-death penalty. I guess that's to take care of what's going on in Illinois over the death penalty law.

RSBM--Wait, really? I know Illinois is going through the throes of DP v no-DP, but do you have a link for the seating-two-juries thing for this case? I am flabbergasted. What if the two juries come to opposite conclusions? :waitasec:

 

[Brian5671]

RSBM--Wait, really? I know Illinois is going through the throes of DP v no-DP, but do you have a link for the seating-two-juries thing for this case? I am flabbergasted. What if the two juries come to opposite conclusions? :waitasec:

I think it means that there would be 2 juries in case the DP was overturned...only one jury would hear the trial, but let's say the DP was tossed on Oct 1st, they could theoretically have to pick a whole new jury...

 

[CCup]

Here is a link to an article about the 2 pools of jurors.

"Wharton said that as a safeguard for Coleman, he will assemble a pool of jurors who have not been asked about the death penalty and keep them in readiness in case the death penalty is abolished after jury selection. Wharton has previously ruled that jurors will be brought in from another county because of heavy pretrial publicity in the metro-east. It was not clear whether a mistrial would be declared if the death penalty was abolished during the trial, but O'Gara said if that happened, he would likely ask for one.

http://www.bnd.com/2011/01/15/1552069/colemans-request-to-delay-trial.html

 

[CCup]

Well looks like the death penalty is off the table

http://www.bnd.com/2011/03/09/1623116/quinn-abolishes-death-penalty.html

 

[stmarysmead]

Reading between the lines here..we have reports of Coleman letting Tara "listen" to his confrontations with his wife; we have reports of Sheri's Facebook page being hacked with at least one comment.."You don't deserve Chris."...we have reports that the sexting and emails between Chris and Tara were "brazen."

I'm going to speculate that taunting and tormenting Sherri was sexual foreplay for these two. I think we are going to hear of months of humiliation and Sheri being forced to have Tara's "superiority" in all ways shoved in her face.

I think we will learn that was part of their enjoyment. Did Sherri know that wedding Save the Dates were going out...that Tara was house shopping with Chris?

I think they MADE her know. I think we are going to see a perverted sexual game here that was heightened by having Sherri to victimize.

There is a quote that Chris said Sherri was keeping him "from God's will for him"...his life with the Dog Track waitress.

I'm predicting we will be astounded by the cruelty we hear that preceded this horrific crime.

 

[CCup]

In court Thursday, Lintz offered three reasons why she did not want to travel to Illinois. She said she didn't want to miss work and didn't want to be bothered by the media.

She also implied she feared for her safety and said authorities in Illinois told her they would send two detectives to Florida to escort her to the trial.

"I just want to stay out of harm's way," she told Pinellas-Pasco Chief Judge Thomas McGrady. "I really don't want to go but I don't think I have a choice."

http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts...ling-his-wife-a-former-largo-resident/1156475
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Why can't this woman just man up and do that right thing??

 

[Kimster]

In court Thursday, Lintz offered three reasons why she did not want to travel to Illinois. She said she didn't want to miss work and didn't want to be bothered by the media.

She also implied she feared for her safety and said authorities in Illinois told her they would send two detectives to Florida to escort her to the trial.

"I just want to stay out of harm's way," she told Pinellas-Pasco Chief Judge Thomas McGrady. "I really don't want to go but I don't think I have a choice."

http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts...ling-his-wife-a-former-largo-resident/1156475
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Why can't this woman just man up and do that right thing??

:furious: So much for ever thinking she was going to be an Amber Frey!

And I'm already angry the death penalty is off the table! We need a thread for that. Hold on!

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

I don't recall any mention of tapes either...just texts....(I can imagine those will be bad enough)....my mind keeps imagining what could be on those tapes....and I really don't want to go there! lol.

 

[who knew?]

His family must be so proud of him................. Wonder what Joyce Meyer will think of her dutiful servant. :loser:

 

[OneLove]

His family must be so proud of him................. Wonder what Joyce Meyer will think of her dutiful servant. :loser:

In both cases, it probably depends on whether they are hypocrites also and to what degree. Sometimes the public 'appearance' is quite different than the real truth.

This also brings to mind something that is said about pathological narcissists: There IS no core truth within them. Their "truth" is whatever they want it to be in any given moment, based on whoever's eyes they happen to be looking into at that given moment. Shapeshifters.

We've sure seen quite alot of that from media-evangelists over the last 3 or 4 decades. I'm not saying this is true in this case, just that we have seen a number of very high profile cases that support that hypocrisy is alive and well even at the highest levels of God-professing religious celebrities. If hypocrisy just happened to exist in the culture of the father's work, and the culture of his employer's work, then maybe they are all merely embarassed that he was dumb enough to get caught.

The son of Joyce Meyers, has it ever been determined just how close he and Chris were outside of "work"? Is he expected to testify at trial as to how much knowledge he had of the illicit relationship between Chris and Lintz? Did he spend time with the two? If so, did his mother know of this?

 

[Fairy1]

His family must be so proud of him................. Wonder what Joyce Meyer will think of her dutiful servant. :loser:

Oh, how I wish I knew!!!

 

[who knew?]

Can't remember if it was determined whether or not the Coleman trial will be televised. Does anyone remember?

 

[fran]

Trial to begin in strangling of Ill. family

Jury selection begins Monday in the oft-delayed Monroe County case against Coleman, a former Marine accused of a crime that has transfixed much of the St. Louis metropolitan area.

Investigators believe Coleman, 34, spent months setting up the killings of his wife and their two boys, 11 and 9, to make it appear the work of an intruder who had stalked the family. They say Coleman authored and sent threatening letters to his own home and ultimately spray-painted the vulgar messages on the walls.

Coleman claimed he wasn't home at the time of the crime, and police found the bodies after he called asking them to check on his family. In contesting the prosecution's largely circumstantial case, his defense attorneys tried unsuccessfully to persuade a judge to exclude testimony by Sheri Coleman's friends, who claimed the mother had sought to save her unraveling marriage but feared her husband.

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