GUILTY CA - Sherri Rasmussen, 29, murdered in her Los Angeles home, 24 Feb 1986

[joe jones]

the excellent blogger Sprokett who blogs on Trials and Tribulations will be attending court to follow the trial, she is excellent at giving a really good insight into any trial she follows,

 

[joe jones]

voir dire still ongoing

 

[joe jones]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...detective-murder-trial-opening-arguments.html

opening statements today

 

[joe jones]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/stephanie-lazarus-murder-case_n_1257169.html

defence case appears to now be that they know who the real killer is and they will reveal who this suspect is and reveal there evidence that this person killed the victim, I wonder who they are going to accuse,

 

[joe jones]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/07/stephanie-lazarus-murder-_n_1259849.html

openings

 

[joe jones]

and seems the defence will be going with what LE initially said the crime was a robbery gone bad, and it was the robber/s that murdered Sherri

 

[replicant]

http://sprocket-trials.blogspot.com/

Good writing

 

[joe jones]

http://blogs.discovery.com/criminal...rts-stephanie-lazarus-murder-trial-day-2.html

from trial

 

[joe jones]

http://blogs.discovery.com/criminal...ma-reports-dna-matches-detective-lazarus.html

from trial

 

[joe jones]

http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/2012...ing?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

forensic evidence,

 

[joe jones]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/16/stephanie-lazarus-murder-case_n_1282239.html
husband of victim testifies, he was put through the wringer on cross

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Thanks for the updates Joe Jones....I find this case fascinating for some reason!

Ms. Lazarus looks downright freaky in that photo from your link!

 

[joe jones]

I too am fascinated by this case, by the fact that they never seriously looked at Lazarus at the time of the murder, even though the victims parents insisted to LE that there daughter had told them she was being stalked by her husbands ex who was a police officer,

I wonder whether Lazarus was able to in some way keep her eye on the case over the years, I wonder what she thought when DNA began to be used as evidence and when Cold Case squads began to be formed and old evidence was tested for DNA and years after a murder due to DNA new suspects were charged, tried and convicted - I wonder if she thought maybe one day they will come for me

I do think she is guilty, but I am unsure if they will get a conviction, time has erased many memories, the defence is going big on contamination - and my faith in juries has taken some knocks over the years

it just goes to show that one can commit a murder and then on the surface at least carry on with your life, and make it a very successful life with a husband and child and a great career where Lazarus was respected and promoted and held a great position in LE,

 

[Canadian4]

I cant imagine seeing those eyes during the last moments of my life. The victim must have thought Lazarus was the devil herself.
I think through the years she probably did occasionally think about DNA and the murder case being reopened but she strikes me as the type who would then convince herself she was being being paranoid, to relax, odds are it wouldn't reopen but if it did she was safe because she was a repected police officer, "above the law" in her mind.

 

[joe jones]

from todays testimony one witness who went through the police academy and training with Lazarus said she was very good at the restraining and arrest manoeuvres they were taught, that she was very aggressive and tenacious during the practice sessions

a good point for the state as the victim was not a small woman and she fought her attacker until she was shot, and from the evidence I have read it was a stand up knock down fight between the victim and her attacker until the attacker managed to shoot her,

 

[joe jones]

http://blogs.discovery.com/criminal...rrogation-video-reveals-lazaruss-anxiety.html

jury got to see Lazarus interview with LE when she realsied she was a suspect and terminted the interview and was then arrested in 2009

 

[joe jones]

trial still ongoing, DNA evidence, fingerprint evidence, ballistic evidence all being testified to, we are still in state CIC but they are nearly finished - then we will get to the defence and there experts in DNA and there opinions that the states DNA evidence is contaminated and can't be relied on

 

[Vhead]

trial still ongoing, DNA evidence, fingerprint evidence, ballistic evidence all being testified to, we are still in state CIC but they are nearly finished - then we will get to the defence and there experts in DNA and there opinions that the states DNA evidence is contaminated and can't be relied on

Been following this too. I keep checking sprocket to see the latest. I feel so sad too for Stephanie's child and husband... Not to mention the victims family .. Wow. What a selfish selfish insane woman!!


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[joe jones]

murder happened 26 years ago today,

 

[seattlechiquita]

Why isn't this trial being televised?