MS - Jessica Chambers, 19, Panola County, 6 Dec 2014 ; Quinton Tellis Indicted - #13

[DeDee]

Greetings to everyone!

How is everyone planning to view the hearing that is scheduled for tomorrow at 9am?

Is anyone following Therese Apel on Twitter for updates? Has anyone contacted TA via email or FB to find out if she will be covering the hearing?

I realize the hearing will be brief. I just want to look at that hoodlum killer of Miss Jessica Lane Chambers who remained elusive to us for so long.

Justice for Jessica

:rose:

 

[DeDee]

Thanks for that, bbbd4u and MSCJgrad.

Why the DeSoto jail? Champion is DA for several MS counties (DeSoto / Tate / Panola / Tallahatchie / Yalobusha). Maybe he thought the Panola County jail would be a bad idea, although that would be the jurisdiction where the murder was committed. I'm sure Ben has plenty of friends working there.

I assume there will be a request made by the defense for a change of venue from Batesville, but where? It's not like this case hasn't received nationwide attention.

JMO

I found this tragic case from near Panola County where the defendant was granted a change in venue. The drowning murder occurred at Arkabutla Lake involving a 7yo little girl. AL is a reservoir that encompasses DeSoto / Tate counties, Mississippi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkabutla_Lake

Brandon, Miss., Oct. 11, 2000

"Troy Carlisle, 28, told authorities he was trying to save Dallas Reinhardt when he removed her life jacket ... "

"A ‘Depraved Heart’ Statute He originally was charged under a 130-year-old Mississippi law called “depraved heart murder,” which is filed when someone is suspected of placing another person in imminent danger of death."

"A man was convicted of a reduced charge of manslaughter today for wresting a 7-year-old girl’s life jacket away from her and leaving her to drown in a Mississippi lake."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95419&page=1

http://articles.latimes.com/2000/oct/12/news/mn-35490

Goggle map from Courtland (Panola Co.) Northward to Arkabutla Lake (Desoto Co.) indicates they are 49.5 miles apart. From Arkabutla Lake to Brandon, MS, where the trial was held, is appx. 200.4 miles south.

https://www.bing.com/mapspreview?rt...water,+MS+38618_Arkabutla+Lake_(662)+562-6261

 

[honesty]

Thanks for that, bbbd4u and MSCJgrad.

Why the DeSoto jail? Champion is DA for several MS counties (DeSoto / Tate / Panola / Tallahatchie / Yalobusha). Maybe he thought the Panola County jail would be a bad idea, although that would be the jurisdiction where the murder was committed. I'm sure Ben has plenty of friends working there.

I assume there will be a request made by the defense for a change of venue from Batesville, but where? It's not like this case hasn't received nationwide attention.

JMO

I live in MS and we currently have a few suspects in my own county waiting for trial. In every case they house the ones arrested for the murders in other counties. It's my opinion they do this for safety of the suspect so they are not incarcerated with their peers and at risk being hurt or killed or to keep talk down. Mississippi has its fair share if not more of jail inmates being dead in the morning at breakfast call.

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[d4j]

Greetings to everyone!

How is everyone planning to view the hearing that is scheduled for tomorrow at 9am?

Is anyone following Therese Apel on Twitter for updates? Has anyone contacted TA via email or FB to find out if she will be covering the hearing?

I realize the hearing will be brief. I just want to look at that hoodlum killer of Miss Jessica Lane Chambers who remained elusive to us for so long.

Justice for Jessica

:rose:

I am going to check Therese Apel's tweets and fb and also Clarion-Ledger and WMC Action News for live streams shortly before the hearing.

 

[d4j]

I am going to check Therese Apel's tweets and fb and also Clarion-Ledger and WMC Action News for live streams shortly before the hearing.

Live stream:
http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/category/291427/wmc-action-news-5-livestream?clienttype=generic
Jessica's father, stepmother, and others, are in the courtroom.

 

[d4j]

Live stream:
http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/category/291427/wmc-action-news-5-livestream?clienttype=generic
Jessica's father, stepmother, and others, are in the courtroom.

Family is sitting in center, third row.
Left to right:
paternal grandmother,
father,
stepmother,
?,
mother,
half-sister by father's first marriage (blue top),
? (blonde)

 

[d4j]

Family is sitting in third row.
Left to right:
paternal grandmother,
father,
stepmother,
?,
mother,
half-sister by father's first marriage (blue top),
? (blonde)
...

QVT is there. Courtroom is quiet.

 

[d4j]

QVT is there. Courtroom is quiet.

09:02 The court comes to order.
09:03 QVT is sworn in.
09:03 John Champion reads the indictment.
09:06 QVT pleads not guilty.

 

[d4j]

QVT's family is on left.
QVT's sister (I think) is among them.

 

[d4j]

09:10 Stream from courtroom seems to have stopped.

 

[d4j]

Suspect in Jessica Chambers case enters not guilty plea
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/...hambers-case-enters-not-guilty-plea/87104268/
Therese Apel, The Clarion-Ledger 9:07 a.m. CDT July 15, 2016

 

[PeterThomasFan]

Suspect in Jessica Chambers case enters not guilty plea
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/...hambers-case-enters-not-guilty-plea/87104268/
Therese Apel, The Clarion-Ledger 9:07 a.m. CDT July 15, 2016

Really? :thinking:

 

[d4j]

Really? :thinking:

I know, right?

 

[d4j]

There is a new tribute video posted by the admin at the JusticeForJessicaChambers facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/JusticeForJessicaChambers/videos/504705359724008/

There are nice photos, including a few I have not previously seen.

 

[d4j]

Suspect in Jessica Chambers case enters not guilty plea
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/...hambers-case-enters-not-guilty-plea/87104268/
Therese Apel, The Clarion-Ledger 9:07 a.m. CDT July 15, 2016

From Ms. Therese Apel's 11:50 a.m. CDT July 15, 2016 update:

• "He [QVT] entered his [guilty] plea through [one of his attorneys, Darla] Palmer and was escorted back out of the courtroom."
• "Authorities said they expected Tellis to plead not guilty ...."
• "Tellis' trial is tentatively set for September ..." [but John Champion said,] "Realistically I don't think he'll be tried until the spring."

 

[d4j]

Clarion-Ledger post-hearing summary video by reporter Therese Apel:

https://www.facebook.com/clarionledger/videos/vb.72139486384/10154412340341385/?type=2&theater

 

[d4j]

Video of arraignment:

Jessica Chambers - Quinton Tellis Arraignment 07/15/16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF3xwQ2Labc

 

[DeDee]

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/...hambers-case-enters-not-guilty-plea/87104268/

Defense Attorney Darla Mannery Palmer
Licensed for 19 years

Attorney in Jackson, MS

Practice Area: Municipal Law
Law School Attended
University of Iowa
Class of 1994
J.D.

http://www.lawyers.com/jackson/mississippi/Darla-Mannery-Palmer-1022315-a/

Defense Attorney Alton E. Peterson
Licensed for 18 years

Attorney in Jackson, MS

Mr. Peterson is an Associate at Stamps and Stamps Law Firm

http://www.lawyers.com/jackson/mississippi/Stamps-and-Stamps-43047590-f/

 

[DeDee]

The Tellis support group arrived late for the hearing. They brought an infant with them.

QVT did not appear to have lost any weight during his incarceration.

QVT gave a hand sign by using a closed fist with his thumb and little finger pointing out as he was led to the exit door. I am not sure of the meaning of the gesture made with his handcuffed hand.

QVT gave a quick slight grin (duping delight?) as he was being led out of the courtroom.

Questions:

I did not see Jessica's mother. Who were the people sitting on Jessica Lane Chambers' side? Her grandmother? Her father, Ben? And his wife? Jessica's sister? TIA

Are his attorney's court appointed? If so, why did they appoint lawyers from Jackson? Does one always receive two lawyers when using tax payer's dollars to fund their defense? Or is QVT/his family paying for the defense legal team? TIA

http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/clip/...ars-in-court-pleads-not-guilty?autostart=true

:cow:
Justice for Jessica
:rose:

 

[d4j]

The Tellis support group arrived late for the hearing. They brought an infant with them.

QVT did not appear to have lost any weight during his incarceration.

QVT gave a hand sign by using a closed fist with his thumb and little finger pointing out as he was led to the exit door. I am not sure of the meaning of the gesture made with his handcuffed hand.

QVT gave a quick slight grin (duping delight?) as he was being led out of the courtroom.

Questions:

I did not see Jessica's mother. Who were the people sitting on Jessica Lane Chambers' side? Her grandmother? Her father, Ben? And his wife? Jessica's sister? TIA

Are his attorney's court appointed? If so, why did they appoint lawyers from Jackson? Does one always receive two lawyers when using tax payer's dollars to fund their defense? Or is QVT/his family paying for the defense legal team? TIA

http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/clip/...ars-in-court-pleads-not-guilty?autostart=true

:cow:
Justice for Jessica
:rose:

Re family, from left to right:

(1) paternal grandmother
(2) father
(3) stepmother (3rd and current wife to father)
(4) ? looks familiar but I have not seen enough of her face
​

I did not think she is JLC's half-sister by her mother's 1st marriage, but maybe she is. (I think she would have been there if possible.)
​

(5) mother
(6) half-sister by father's first marriage(in blue top)
(7) ?person with blonde ponytail (I did not see her face and don't recognize her from behind.)
​

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=sF3xwQ2Labc#t=150