GUILTY TX - Sherin Mathews, 3, Richardson, 7 Oct 2017 #9

[JerricaBenton]

Defence ...
Asking if the Mathews were the only parents to miss appointments.
Asked if she had complimented the Mathews on her progress.

 

[JerricaBenton]

Discharged in June, with instructions with the parents in case of future worries.
If they had missed a certain amount of appointments, would the be kicked off the programme? Yes.

 

[JerricaBenton]

Witness excused.
All parties at the bar, cannot hear the discussion.

 

[JerricaBenton]

Jury instructions from the judge ...

Jury members need to contact a family member to bring their belongings for 3/4 days worth, bring to the courthouse, they will be staying together. Now on a break to carry out this task.

 

[katydid23]

WOWZWERS---The judge just told the jurors to call a family member to bring them 4 or 5 days of clothing---they are being sequestered starting NOW

 

[katydid23]

this is very weird, imo

 

[MsFacetious]

Uh isn't that something they know about BEFORE?
I could do a 5 day trial as long as I could go home at night. But I couldn't be sequestered. What if some of the jurors have young children without overnight childcare? This is not how it's supposed to work!

 

[JerricaBenton]

Took a quick break and have missed the last few minutes of what the judge is saying

 

[Ladylub]

I did not expect the jury to be sequestered like this. I wonder what came up to cause this to happen?

 

[JerricaBenton]

Ok, judge back in. All rise!

 

[JerricaBenton]

Or did she just leave? Unsure haha! Camera is not pointed correctly to see.

 

[JerricaBenton]

WM back in the court, think things are about to proceed again.

 

[katydid23]

The judge told the spectators that only journalists could have their phones and laptops from now on.

 

[katydid23]

Dog Handler up on stand now.

 

[JerricaBenton]

Next witness.
Canine handler. Registered nurse.

 

[dms]

Thank you for doing this, JB!!

 

[JerricaBenton]

Dog handler in tears when saying that Stella (dog) was the one to find Sherin

 

[JerricaBenton]

There were 5/6 human remains dogs looking for her.

 

[JerricaBenton]

The dogs don't know if they are looking for old bones or newly dead bodies, they indicate on any human remains odours.

 

[JerricaBenton]

Just describing the search and where they looked.