GUILTY FL - Tahirih 'Tara' D'Angelo, 39, murdered, Riverview, 20 March 2017 *Arrest*

[SeesSeas]

@SeesSeas - okay checking in - in October. Any court dates yet before trial in January? TIA!

Last hearing was AUG 19, 2019.
No court dates between now and JAN 2020 JURY TRIAL.
JURY TRIAL now one week earlier, starting JAN 06, 2020.
Case Search
STATE OF FLORIDA VS CARMONA, JOSHUA LEON
Case No. 17-CF-004207-A

Hearing Description Canceled Comment Hearing Date Hearing Time
JURY TRIAL Per JA's Request (Notice or Em 2020-01-17 09:00 AM
JURY TRIAL Per JA's Request (Notice or Em 2020-01-16 09:00 AM
JURY TRIAL Per JA's Request (Notice or Em 2020-01-15 09:00 AM
JURY TRIAL Per JA's Request (Notice or Em 2020-01-14 09:00 AM
JURY TRIAL Per JA's Request (Notice or Em 2020-01-13 09:00 AM
JURY TRIAL 2020-01-10 09:00 AM
JURY TRIAL 2020-01-09 09:00 AM
JURY TRIAL 2020-01-08 09:00 AM
JURY TRIAL 2020-01-07 09:00 AM
JURY TRIAL 2020-01-06 09:00 AM

 

[Niner]

Confession released of man accused of beating mom to death with bat

TAMPA, Fla. - Murder defendant Joshua Carmona told detectives he woke up one morning and said, “I decided I’ll kill my mom today,” according to his newly-released confession made to investigators hours after allegedly beating his mother to death with a baseball bat.

 

[rodneymullenmg]

Sounds like he's mentally ill

 

[SeesSeas]

Case Search
STATE OF FLORIDA VS CARMONA, JOSHUA LEON
Case No. 17-CF-004207-A

Hearing Description Hearing Date Hearing Time
JURY TRIAL 2020-01-10 09:00 AM
JURY TRIAL 2020-01-09 09:00 AM
JURY TRIAL 2020-01-08 09:00 AM
JURY TRIAL 2020-01-07 09:00 AM
JURY TRIAL 2020-01-06 09:00 AM
STATUS REVIEW 2019-12-16 09:00 AM
Motion Hearing 2019-12-13 09:00 AM
MOTION/PENDING CASE 2019-12-13 09:00 AM
MOTION/PENDING CASE 2019-12-13 09:00 AM

Document Index Clock-In Event Date Event Description Comment
207 12/12/2019 MOTION IN LIMINE
208 12/12/2019 NOTICE OF HEARING
209 12/12/2019 SUBPOENA RETURNED SERVED
210 12/12/2019 SUBPOENA RETURNED
211 12/12/2019 NOTICE OF SUPPLEMENTAL AUTHORITY IN SUPPORT OF ITS MOTION IN LIMINE TO PRECLUDE EVIDENCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS, DISEASE OR DEFECT NOT RISING TO LEVEL OF LEGAL INSANITY

 

[SeesSeas]

'I was blaming my mom for not being there.’ New court records detail murder defendant’s state of mind
December 13, 2019
[...]
Now, a month before Carmona is set to face trial, a transcript of his interview with two Hillsborough sheriff’s detectives hours after his mother’s death has been made public. In it, the then-18-year-old gives a graphic and chilling description of how he beat his mother to death. He spoke of feelings of anger toward her for abandoning him in his early childhood.

“The main thing was that I was thinking about that led me to do this was I was blaming my mom for not being there,” Carmona told the detectives. “And I, like, I think I just held it in. I hated her for that.”
[...]
Carmona told the detectives he got up the morning of March 20, 2017, with plans to kill his mother and stepfather. At about noon, he told his mother to come look at something near the stairway in their home, then began hitting her with the bat, he said.

After she was dead, he said, he used a kitchen knife to cut her neck. Prosecutors have described the neck wound as consistent with an attempt at decapitation, but Carmona told the detectives it was an effort to ensure she was dead.
[...]
Court records note that mental health professionals have diagnosed Carmona with severe depression with psychotic features, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Earlier this month, prosecutors asked a judge to prevent Carmona’s defense from using his interview to argue that he was insane at the time of the crime. But in court Friday, a defense attorney said they have no plans to use an insanity defense.
[...]

 

[Niner]

Man accused of killing mother rejects plea deal


TAMPA, Fla. - A man accused of beating his mother to death with a baseball bat said "no" to 60 years in prison.

That was the offer made by the Hillsborough County State Attorneys Office made recently.

Instead, Joshua Carmona decided he will leave his fate up to a jury.

 

[Niner]

Monday, December 16th:
*Status Review Hearing (@ 9am ET) - FL - Tahirih "Tara" Lua D'Angelo (39) (Mar. 20, 2017, Riverview) - *Joshua Leon Carmona (18) (son) indicted (3/21/17) on 1st degree murder. Plead not guilty. Held without bond.
Confessed to LE that he killed his mother.
Trial scheduled for 1/6 thru 1/10/20.
Preliminary hearings on 2/10/18 & 3/20/18. Status Review hearing of 5/18/18 postponed 7/13, to 9/21, to 12/17/18, to 1/30/19.
1/30/19 Update: Next Status hearing on 6/10/19. Trial set for 1/13 thru 1/17/20. 6/10/19 Next Status Review hearing on 8/19. 8/19/19: Next motions hearing on 12/13. 12/12/19: Notice of supplemental authority in support of its Motion in Limine to preclude evidence of mental illness, disease or defect not rising to level of legal insanity. Trial will begin on 1/6/20 thru 1/10/20.
12/13/19 Update: Carmona accused of beating his mother to death with a baseball bat said "no" to 60 years in prison. That was the offer made by the Hillsborough County State Attorney’s Office made recently. Instead, decided he will leave his fate up to a jury. Status hearing on 12/16.

 

[Niner]

Hey @SeesSeas - any more hearings before trial on 1/6?

TIA! And no hurry - take your time.

 

[SeesSeas]

Hey @SeesSeas - any more hearings before trial on 1/6?

TIA! And no hurry - take your time.

No hearings before 1/6/20 trial. Last hearing was 12/16/19.
Case Search
STATE OF FLORIDA VS CARMONA, JOSHUA LEON
Case No. 17-CF-004207-A

Hearing Description Hearing Date Hearing Time
JURY TRIAL 2020-01-06 09:00 AM
STATUS REVIEW 2019-12-16 09:00 AM

Document Index Clock-In Event Date Event Description Comment
226 12/16/2019 LEAVE DATE PREVIOUSLY SET JTR 1/6, 1/7, 1/8, 1/9, 1/10/2020
227 12/16/2019 COURT MINUTES FINGERPRINTS TAKEN IN COURT

216 12/13/2019 LEAVE DATE PREVIOUSLY SET JTR 1/6, 1/7, 1/8, 1/9, 1/10/2020
217 12/13/2019 MOTION TO COMPEL PALM & FINGERPRINTS - GRANTED

221 12/13/2019 STATES MOTION IN LIMINE TO PRECLUDE EVIDENCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS, DISENSE OR DEFECT NOT RISING TO THE LEVEL OF LEGAL INSANITY, INCLUDING EVIDENCE OF PURPORTED SUICIDE ATTEMPTS - GRANTED EXCEPT FOR THE RECORDED STATEMENT

223 12/13/2019 MOTION IN LIMINE DEFENDANT'S FIRST MOTION IN LIMINE EXCLUDING OPINION TESTIMONY FROM THE MEDICAL EXAMINER REGARDING POSSIBLE DECAPITATION - GRANTED

 

[Niner]

Monday, January 6th:
*Trial set to begin (@ 9am ET) - FL - Tahirih "Tara" Lua D'Angelo (39) (Mar. 20, 2017, Riverview) - *Joshua Leon Carmona (18) (son) indicted (3/21/17) on 1st degree murder. Plead not guilty. Held without bond.
Trial set to begin on 1/6 thru 1/10/20.

 

[Niner]

Tuesday, January 7th:
*Trial continues (Day 2) (@ 9am ET) - FL - Tahirih "Tara" Lua D'Angelo (39) (Mar. 20, 2017, Riverview) - *Joshua Leon Carmona (18) (son) indicted (3/21/17) on 1st degree murder. Plead not guilty. Held without bond.
Trial began on 1/6 thru 1/10/20.
1/6/20 Day 1: Jury selection. Trial continues on 1/7/20.

 

[Niner]

@human - I've lost my "go to person" to look up court hearings for me. I was wondering if you could look up & see if the trial IS continuing today? See SeesSeas post #49 for link & case #. TIA!

 

[SeesSeas]

Was it murder or manslaughter when Joshua Carmona killed his mother?
January 7, 2020
TAMPA — No one disputes that Joshua Carmona killed his mother.

The state and defense in the son’s murder trial both admit that at the age of 18 he bashed Tahirih D’Angelo’s head with a baseball bat and cut her neck with a kitchen knife inside their Riverview townhouse in 2017.

That means jurors who filed into the courtroom Tuesday will instead be faced with this question: Was it murder or manslaughter?

Their answer will determine whether Carmona, now 21, will spend the rest of his life in prison.

His trial opened Tuesday, more than two years after he sat in the back of a sheriff’s patrol vehicle and spontaneously told deputies that he had killed his mother.
[...]
The trial is expected to last through this week.

 

[Niner]

Wednesday, January 8th:
*Trial continues (Day 3) (@ 9am ET) - FL - Tahirih "Tara" Lua D'Angelo (39) (Mar. 20, 2017, Riverview) - *Joshua Leon Carmona (18/now 21) (son) indicted (3/21/17) on 1st degree murder. Plead not guilty. Held without bond.
Confessed to killing his mother.
Trial began on 1/6 thru 1/10/20.
1/6/20 Day 1: Jury selection. Trial continues on 1/7/20.
1/7/20 Day 2: No info available. Jury will have to decide whether it was murder or manslaughter. Trial continues on 1/8.

 

[Niner]

Looks like opening statements were on yesterday, 1/7. Wish I knew the break up of the jurors.

Was it murder or manslaughter when Joshua Carmona killed his mother?

Updated Earlier today, Jan. 7, 2020

TAMPA — No one disputes that Joshua Carmona killed his mother.

The state and defense in the son’s murder trial both admit that at the age of 18 he bashed Tahirih D’Angelo’s head with a baseball bat and cut her neck with a kitchen knife inside their Riverview townhouse in 2017.

That means jurors who filed into the courtroom Tuesday will instead be faced with this question: Was it murder or manslaughter?
[.....]
In opening statements, Carmona’s defense described him as a troubled young man, who resented his mother’s absence in his early childhood.
[.....]
The story that Assistant State Attorney Jay Pruner told the jury was less complicated. The details, he said, came straight from Carmona’s own mouth as he talked to Hillsborough sheriff’s detectives hours after his arrest.


If anyone sees any more articles with more witnesses - please post! TIA!

 

[Niner]

Thursday, January 9th:
*Trial continues (Day 4) (@ 9am ET) - FL - Tahirih "Tara" Lua D'Angelo (39) (Mar. 20, 2017, Riverview) - *Joshua Leon Carmona (18) (son) indicted (3/21/17) on 1st degree murder. Plead not guilty. Held without bond.
Confessed to LE that he killed his mother.
Trial began on 1/6 thru 1/10/20.
1/6/20 Day 1: Jury has been selected. Trial continues on 1/7/20.
1/7/20 Day 2: Opening statements by both sides. State witnesses: Robert D’Angelo (Carmona's step-grandfather). No other info available yet. Jury will have to decide whether it was murder or manslaughter. Trial continues on 1/8.
1/8/20 Day 3: No info available. Trial continues on 1/9.

 

[SeesSeas]

Jury convicts Joshua Carmona in the murder of his mother
January 9, 2020
TAMPA — It took a jury a little more than an hour Thursday to find Joshua Carmona guilty of first-degree murder for beating his mother to death with a baseball bat in 2017 at their Riverview home.

The panel of nine men and three women shunned defense arguments that the killing was something less than murder, ensuring that the 21-year-old will spend the rest of his life in prison.
[...]

 

[Niner]

Thank you for the update SeesSeas!