NM - Tera Chavez, 26, found dead in her Los Lunas home, 22 Oct 2007 - #1

[Thundar]

Prosecution over by defense table again.....Serna reading something....Serna says ok! Now prosecution is showing the papers to the judge.......jury coming into the courtroom!

Joseph Cordova is still on the stand.

Prosecution question: not yet.....a juror is ill.....court is gonna take the lunch break....Serna wants to wait 5 or 10 minutes.....Prosecution wants lunch break.......

Court back at 1:00!

 

[CUCKOOHEAD]

serna wants to go to lunch

 

[calamityjane831]

So the state tried to proceed with introducing them in court and serna objected to them not being certified and court was adjoined until the state can get that done?

Makes sense but still doesn't explain why papers were being shuffled by the state with Mr Cordova on the stand.

calamity we will just have to agree to disagree. Vanished means missing to me and that shuffling of papers isn't something I made up.

Yes we can agree to disagree and yes some shuffling happened not a big deal and vanished means missing to me too and nothing was missing so it is a mute point. IMO

 

[calamityjane831]

serna wants to go to lunch

One of the jurors is not feeling well.

10:35 AM
TwitterAnna V @Anna_Velasquez
LUNCH RECESS until 1p #levichavez Judge asks everyone to be in place at 12:45p
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10:35 AM
TwitterAnna V @Anna_Velasquez
Judge was just informed one of the jurors is ill, Keener suggests taking lunch break now #levichavez

 

[CUCKOOHEAD]

Yes we can agree to disagree and yes some shuffling happened not a big deal and vanished means missing to me too and nothing was missing so it is a mute point. IMO

:floorlaugh::floorlaugh:

 

[Jewels53]

Ok Why couldn't that juror had said they were sick during all that time that we were waiting. I am an impatient!

I also thought I heard Serna tell Ms Keener ok but that he was going to object anyway.

 

[calamityjane831]

Ok Why couldn't that juror had said they were sick during all that time that we were waiting. I am an impatient!

I also thought I heard Serna tell Ms Keener ok but that he was going to object anyway.

I would not put it past Serna to keep objecting to that evidence IMO Serna does not want that in and he will continue to object at all costs.

 

[Jewels53]

Serna with all of your arguments lets just forget this whole trial and let your client go Free.

What say you all!

 

[Thundar]

2 things from Serna for jury instructions......the insurance evidence from the rebuttle......Serna does not like the instruction at the end.......

Prosecution has no oposition to what Serna said......change the instruction on the insurance evidence. Exhibit #146.

Prosecution just for the record....Rosemary Silva shall be admitted as evidence and the jury will give them the weight that they deem appropriate.

Serna wants the deem appropriate taken out........

Prosecutor wants it that way......deem appropriate.....

Serna also has a nature issue......instruction number 10....says that the defendant with four brackets....destroyed, changed, hid, and fabricated. Psychical evidence that was destroyed, changed, hid, or fabricated.........something about insuring the verdict.......about the gun!
Serna is giviing illistrations of what the jurors might believe.......gives the state an infinate number of ways the jury could find the defendant guilty.
Serna wants it worded so the jury has a unanamous verdict as to how the crime went down.........

Prosecution does not have a problem with changes with the wording. Just so the changes are in line with the evidence presented.....

Serna is happy with that!

Jury instructions are now happy happy..........

excuse any spelling mistakes......and the jury is coming back!

 

[Thundar]

Ok we had the stand and the clomping but now we are rising again for the jury?

They did some more on the wording for jury instructions.....and now the judge left......jury did not come back into the room and now the judge is gone.......how much more confusing can this trial get?

 

[Jewels53]

NCEast I hope you are having a good day! You are missed and we are thinking of you!

Jewels and the rest of the gang

 

[geevee]

Ok we had the stand and the clomping but now we are rising again for the jury?

They did some more on the wording for jury instructions.....and now the judge left......jury did not come back into the room and now the judge is gone.......how much more confusing can this trial get?

Seems like Serna is running the courtroom and the judge keeps forgetting that and no one knows what's going on. lol

They broke for lunch, when they come back they will finish with Cordova and any remaining instruction issues, tomorrow morning will begin with jury instructions and then closing. At least that's what I got out of all of it.

I don't get why McKay has no issue with all these changes in the instructions, of course the jury is going to give the evidence whatever weight they deem it deserves, that's how our system works. But not to Serna, he wants a rigged game going into deliberations and McKay isn't fighting on much. Arrgg.

 

[geevee]

NCEast I hope you are having a good day! You are missed and we are thinking of you!

Jewels and the rest of the gang

Ditto!

 

[calamityjane831]

Interesting what the ABQJournal named the link.

http://www.abqjournal.com/main/219810/news/absolutely-not.html

Tera’s father back on stand
By Jeff Proctor / Journal Staff Writer on Thu, Jul 11, 2013

10:52 p.m.

BERNALILLO—Tera Chavez’s father, Joseph Cordova, is back on the witness stand this morning as the state’s lone rebuttal witness in the murder case against Chavez’s husband, former APD officer Levi Chavez.

So far, Cordova has directly contradicted one of the statements Levi made during his dramatic, unexpected testimony yesterday: that he offered after Tera’s death to give the Cordovas two pieces of furniture that had belonged to their daughter.

“Levi Chavez never asked us if we wanted any of Tera’s belongings,” Cordova said from the witness stand. “I would’ve picked them up in a heartbeat. These are two pieces she and I did right before her death.”

Levi’s attorney, David Serna, objected to Cordova’s rebuttal testimony before the jury was called into the courtroom this morning, saying it wasn’t material.

State District Judge George P. Eichwald allowed Cordova to testify on some, but not all, of the issues the state intended to ask him questions about.

Assistant District Attorney Anne Keener said before the jury came in that she would’ve “loved to recall” one of Levi’s many paramours for rebuttal testimony. But she didn’t believe court rules it case law would’ve allowed her to.

Keener also had planned to call several “APD people,” but prosecutors didn’t have time to serve subpoenas on them.

“APD is absolutely not showing up without being served,” she said.

Cordova’s rebuttal testimony will continue in a few minutes.

 

[CUCKOOHEAD]

I read from the reporter Anna V that the judge wants to go into closing arguments first thing in the morning?

How can a judge demand that? Doesn't the judge want to make sure there are no possible grounds for appeal?

 

[geevee]

I read from the reporter Anna V that the judge wants to go into closing arguments first thing in the morning?

How can a judge demand that? Doesn't the judge want to make sure there are no possible grounds for appeal?

The judge probably doesn't expect him to be convicted anymore than I do. The PT could have handled this trial so much better, I do hope the Cordova's feel as if just having the trial is a measure of justice, they sure had to fight hard enough to get them to try him.

 

[calamityjane831]

I read from the reporter Anna V that the judge wants to go into closing arguments first thing in the morning?

How can a judge demand that? Doesn't the judge want to make sure there are no possible grounds for appeal?

I know... why would the judge want to rush this. He had spoke to the jury earlier in the week and said he was confident they would get the case by the end of the week so I guess he doesn't want it to look like he was not perfectly correct in what he said to the them but new things came up. I didn't catch it yesterday but there was discussion here on the thread that the jury was rushing the attorney's a bit at the end of the day yesterday. Ugg.

 

[calamityjane831]

The judge probably doesn't expect him to be convicted anymore than I do. The PT could have handled this trial so much better, I do hope the Cordova's feel as if just having the trial is a measure of justice, they sure had to fight hard enough to get them to try him.

I kindly disagree and I am not trying to argue in anyway and I respect your opinion completely. The PT was not perfect and I have know way really to judge them because it is not like I know their record of wins or the law and for me watching I have to recognize it is not an episode of Law and Order and the state had a lot of restrictions put on them during the pre trial and I am sure that was a blow. IMO the judge has a full docket and he is getting farther and father behind... courts are so overwhelmed. I am not making excuses but it does sound like it. I am just thinking what is the judge's motive but of course I do not know. LC and the defense had enough rope to hang themselves. I am prepared to be disappointed I always do that for trials but I think the PT overall got the job done. Maybe I have not agreed or liked their style all of the time. I think the jury will come back with a guilty. That is just me though and I don't know of course.

 

[Jewels53]

Did I hear the judge right about the ill juror, that they are going to swear in a new juror ( alternate)? They decided to wait until after lunch to see if the ill juror recuperated.

I agree about the judge promising the jury that they will get this case this week. I just wonder why is he wasting time today? They are coming back to hear Mr Cordova and that is it for the day?

 

[Thundar]

The judge probably doesn't expect him to be convicted anymore than I do. The PT could have handled this trial so much better, I do hope the Cordova's feel as if just having the trial is a measure of justice, they sure had to fight hard enough to get them to try him.

I am so hoping that the jury comes back with a guilty verdict but you could very well be right. I have been disappointed with the prosecution during this trial many times.....they could have asked better questions or taken the questioning further leaving me feeling unsatisfied with their approach.

I have no idea what the Cordova's expectations are for the outcome. I would imagine they would like to see the person who took their daughter away sitting in jail. But on the other hand this man is the only parent their grandchildren have had for the last 6 years (I think its 6 years) and from the sound of it the Cordovas have not been allowed much if any contact with their grandchildren.......So Mr. Chavez going to jail would mean a big upheaval in their grandchildren's world again.....now loosing both mother and father. I wonder how the Cordovas feel about that.

The Cordova family won the civil suit so that in itself was a great victory...but it did not buy them any access to their grandchildren it would seem........

I am still hoping the verdict turns out to be a resounding guilty but my hopes could get dashed! LOL!