Found Deceased TX - Michael Swearingin, 32, & Jenna Scott, 28, Temple, Bell County, 4 Jan 2019

[Niner]

DNA evidence discussed during Cedric Marks pre-trial hearing

So according to this article above....

Thursday was Marks’s third pretrial hearing. Three weeks from today, we are expecting to hear from witnesses about the DNA evidence on the towel and possibly the other items.

I calculate that to be 2/27/20.... yes?

 

[Niner]

Just checked on the next hearing coming up....

McDonough:

Charge Count: 1
Original Charge:
Current Charge: HARBORING FELONS
Amended Or Reduced: N
Charge Level: F
Disposition: PLEAD GUILTY
Disposition Date: 1/31/2020

Next Hearing: 2/11/2020 - JURY TRIAL

link: https://micourt.courts.michigan.gov...4UMuBhhBQp4QB43wf9tZJOerc7rqCnCVHuLewlLMUnVrG



Wondering IF this will be sentencing date since it says she plead guilty??

 

[Niner]

@PommyMommy - can you check the court site:

Bell County, TX

for Maxwell's next court date? It should be updated by now since it's Saturday & they should have next week's court dates.

TIA!

 

[PommyMommy]

@PommyMommy - can you check the court site:

Bell County, TX

for Maxwell's next court date? It should be updated by now since it's Saturday & they should have next week's court dates.

TIA!

Next week's docket (Feb 10-14) is there but I don't see Maxwell on it. MOO

 

[Niner]

Next week's docket (Feb 10-14) is there but I don't see Maxwell on it. MOO

Thanks for checking that out for me! Much appreciated!

 

[Seifer]

Can you copy & paste it here please?

Here you go. (254) 933-5400

I don't remember the exact number for the corresponding prompts but you will want to access inmate records, say the inmates name, then I believe it is option 4 for upcoming court dates.

She hasn't heard anything about any court date in February, but like I said in an earlier post, she typically finds out information about her case the same time the general public does.

 

[Niner]

Here you go. (254) 933-5400

I don't remember the exact number for the corresponding prompts but you will want to access inmate records, say the inmates name, then I believe it is option 4 for upcoming court dates.

She hasn't heard anything about any court date in February, but like I said in an earlier post, she typically finds out information about her case the same time the general public does.

Sorry but I'm not about to make an international call just to find out upcoming court dates! I'm over here in Europe - so that leaves me out...

Maybe @PommyMommy could just look it up again next week when they have an updated pdf file....

 

[Niner]

Tuesday, February 11th:
*Trial set to begin or Sentencing Hearing (@ 8:45am CT) – in MI/TX – Michael Lee Swearingin (32) & Jenna Kay Scott (28) (Jan. 4, 2019, Temple; found in Clearview, OK 1/9/19) – for *Ginell Marie McDonough (Army Staff Sgt.) (37/now 38) (Mark’s wife) arrested (1/11/19) & charged (2/19/19) for harboring a fugitive & charged with obstruction of justice. $75K bond reduced to $10K, released on bond with GPS monitor.
Maxwell also was hiding out in McDonough’s Michigan home, according to law enforcement officials. McDonough hasn’t been charged yet with a crime in Texas, and she was released from the Michigan jail after her bond was decreased from $75K to $10K.
Trial set to begin on 2/11/20.
1/30/20 Update: Plead guilty. Could be sentencing date.
*Maya Renee Maxwell – Pretrial hearing on 12/13/19, which was cancelled with no scheduled date on court site thru 2/14/20.
*Cedric Joseph Marks – Murder charges: Pretrial hearing on 2/27/20.

 

[Seifer]

W MI wife pleads to harboring TX murder suspect

 

[PommyMommy]

W MI wife pleads to harboring TX murder suspect

Noting:

• Ginell McDonough pleaded guilty Jan. 31 to a felony count of harboring a felon and her sentencing is set for Nov. 13.
• Maya Maxwell is expected back in court for a pre-trial hearing on Feb. 28.

 

[Niner]

Thanks a bunch @PommyMommy - couldn't access the article!

 

[Niner]

Thursday, February 27th:
*Pretrial Hearing – (@ 1:30pm CT) - TX – Michael Lee Swearingin (32) & Jenna Kay Scott (28) (Jan. 4, 2019, Temple; found in Clearview, OK on 1/9/19) – for *Cedric Joseph Marks (44/now 45) (ex bf of Scott’s) arrested (1/8/19) in Kent County, Mich. for a burglary warrant, waived extradition to Texas. *Charged (2/4/19), indicted (4/3/19) & arraigned (5/10/19) with capital murder of multiple persons & tampering with evidence. $2,016,500 Bond. DA will seek DP.
*Charged (2/4/19), indicted (4/3/19) & arraigned (4/10/19) with interfering w/emergency call, false report to police officer, violating protective order, burglary habitation intend.
*Charged & indicted (3/13/19) & arraigned (4/26/19) with 1st degree felony burglary (on 8/21/18 at Scott’s home).
$16,500 on charges of interference with an emergency call, making a false police report & violation of a protection order, bond for the burglary charge is $250K, the murder of multiple persons is carrying a bond of $1.5 million & $250K. Plead not guilty to all charges.
Court information from 2/3/19 thru 8/29/19 reference post #846 here:
Found Deceased - TX - Michael Swearingin, 32, & Jenna Scott, 28, Temple, Bell County, 4 Jan 2019
Trial was to start on 6/24/19 for misdemeanor charges (interfering w/emergency call, false report to police officer & violating protective order).
10/17/19: Next pretrial hearing on 1/23/20. 1/23/20: Next pretrial hearing on 2/6/20. 2/6/20: Thursday’s pretrial hearing involved two motions – one of which has to do with seven drops of blood on a light green-colored towel. The defense either wants the DNA testing to be done under video recording or have those samples tested in an outside lab. This is only the newest information in a case which began in 2018. Thursday was Marks’s third pretrial hearing. Three weeks from today, we are expecting to hear from witnesses about the DNA evidence on the towel and possibly the other items. Next pretrial hearing on 2/27/20.
*Maya Renee Maxwell – Pretrial hearing on 2/28/20.
*Ginell Marie McDonough – 1/31/20: Plead guilty. Sentencing on 11/13/20.

 

[DebW]

Judge denies DNA evidence motion in Marks case

• BY DEBORAH MCKEON | TELEGRAM STAFF
  

BELTON — A state district judge on Thursday denied a request by attorneys for capital murder suspect Cedric Marks to make sure DNA evidence from a Jan. 3, 2019, double-homicide case is available to them.

Judge Fancy Jezek of the 426th District Court ruled on the motion at a Thursday hearing and said the Texas Department of Public Safety crime lab in Waco must provide notes and test results to Marks’ defense attorneys.

Marks, of Killeen, was indicted as a suspect in the Jan. 3 violent homicides of his ex-girlfriend, Jenna Scott, 28, and her friend, Michael Swearingin, 32, both Temple residents.

Some DNA evidence will be used up before the defense team’s experts can test it, defense attorney Michael White of Temple disclosed in a Feb. 6 pretrial hearing.

Two options were suggested Thursday in a motion by Robert Cowie, a state-appointed defense attorney, which included live observation at the DPS laboratory in Waco or video monitoring the processes used to get the DNA and identify it.

Of particular concern was a small green towel with seven small stains on it. The belief is that it would be completely consumed by the testing, Bell County Assistant District Attorney Michael Waldman pointed out.


Brent Watson, a DPS crime lab DNA superintendent, testified that letting other people in the crime lab would cause safety risks, biological or chemical hazards and contamination issues.

Marks, charged with capital murder of multiple people, is represented by White, Cowie, and Alexander Calhoun. Cowie and Calhoun work for the Regional Public Defenders for Capital Cases office.

Marks is also charged with tampering with evidence, burglary of a habitation with intent of another felony and several misdemeanor cases — all related to Scott.

Marks’ girlfriend Maya Maxwell is also charged in the case.

The prosecution team consists of Bell County Assistant District Attorneys Michael Waldman and Cristin Lane. District Attorney Henry Garza was in court Thursday, seated Waldman and Lane.

The next hearing in the case is scheduled April 6.

 

[PommyMommy]

Judge denies DNA evidence motion in Marks case

• BY DEBORAH MCKEON | TELEGRAM STAFF

BELTON — A state district judge on Thursday denied a request by attorneys for capital murder suspect Cedric Marks to make sure DNA evidence from a Jan. 3, 2019, double-homicide case is available to them.

Judge Fancy Jezek of the 426th District Court ruled on the motion at a Thursday hearing and said the Texas Department of Public Safety crime lab in Waco must provide notes and test results to Marks’ defense attorneys.

Marks, of Killeen, was indicted as a suspect in the Jan. 3 violent homicides of his ex-girlfriend, Jenna Scott, 28, and her friend, Michael Swearingin, 32, both Temple residents.

Some DNA evidence will be used up before the defense team’s experts can test it, defense attorney Michael White of Temple disclosed in a Feb. 6 pretrial hearing.

Two options were suggested Thursday in a motion by Robert Cowie, a state-appointed defense attorney, which included live observation at the DPS laboratory in Waco or video monitoring the processes used to get the DNA and identify it.

Of particular concern was a small green towel with seven small stains on it. The belief is that it would be completely consumed by the testing, Bell County Assistant District Attorney Michael Waldman pointed out.


Brent Watson, a DPS crime lab DNA superintendent, testified that letting other people in the crime lab would cause safety risks, biological or chemical hazards and contamination issues.

Marks, charged with capital murder of multiple people, is represented by White, Cowie, and Alexander Calhoun. Cowie and Calhoun work for the Regional Public Defenders for Capital Cases office.

Marks is also charged with tampering with evidence, burglary of a habitation with intent of another felony and several misdemeanor cases — all related to Scott.

Marks’ girlfriend Maya Maxwell is also charged in the case.

The prosecution team consists of Bell County Assistant District Attorneys Michael Waldman and Cristin Lane. District Attorney Henry Garza was in court Thursday, seated Waldman and Lane.

The next hearing in the case is scheduled April 6.

Oh boy. There was an item of evidence, a tooth, in the Kelsey Berreth case (Colorado) that was subject to consumptive testing. The CBI required that witnesses to the testing provide a buccal swab to ensure there was no contamination as well as undergo a background check. The judge allowed it.

More here: Judge rules that testing can begin on piece of tooth found at Frazee property

 

[Niner]

*Pretrial Hearing – (@ 8:45am CT) – TX – Michael Lee Swearingin (32) & Jenna Kay Scott (28) (Jan. 4, 2019, Temple; found in Clearview, OK 1/9/19) – for *Maya Renee Maxwell (26/now 27) (Mark’s GF) arrested (1/11/19) & extradited from MI to TX (1/16/19), charged (1/16/19), indicted (4/3/19) & arraigned (4/26/19) with capital murder of multiple persons & 3rd degree tampering or fabricating physical evidence. $750K bond.
Maxwell admitted in an arrest affidavit she took Swearingin’s car and drove it to Austin to hide it, was in the house with Marks when he reportedly killed Swearingin and Scott, drove with him to Oklahoma and was there when the bodies were buried.
Court info from 4/3/19 thru 8/30/19 reference post #838 here:
Found Deceased - TX - Michael Swearingin, 32, & Jenna Scott, 28, Temple, Bell County, 4 Jan 2019
10/31/19 Update: Hearing was cancelled. Defense has too much discovery. 10/31/19: Next hearing is on 12/13. 12/13/29: Next pretrial hearing on 2/28/20.
*Cedric Joseph Marks – Next pretrial hearing on 4/6/20.
*Ginell Marie McDonough – 1/31/20: Plead guilty. Sentencing on 11/13/20 in Michigan

 

[Niner]

@PommyMommy - can I bother you to see if there is maybe another court date for Maxwell? still can't access the court site!
TIA!

 

[PommyMommy]

@PommyMommy - can I bother you to see if there is maybe another court date for Maxwell? still can't access the court site!
TIA!

The docket for Mar 2 - Mar 6 is there but I don't see her on it, Niner. MOO

 

[Niner]

Thanks for checking!

 

[DebW]

Cedric Marks Charged With Murder In Connection To 2009 Abduction Of April Pease In Bloomington

 

[Niner]

@PommyMommy - if I could bother you - could you look up & see if Maxwell has a court date yet. Last one was 2/28.

I have Marks on 4/6 - "might" have changed?

Thanks!