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

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No white shoes today

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From this picture it looks like he's wearing fuzzy black slippers :facepalm:
 
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I have to work out of town tomorrow so I won't be here with all of you. If my cold turns into something worse I'll be here. Right now I'm feeling awful but this trial is so entertaining--in a bad way--it's keeping my mind off of how bad I feel.

Aww, I hope you feel better NC! Thanks for your commentary today....you made me chuckle a few times! Take care and feel better!
 
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Just like another ole codger, remember that doctor from Jodi Arias? He left most of the case somewhere back at his office. That's the truth, the whole truth, uh huh.

I am starting to think when defense attys don't have anything they make something up. Like trying to get the witness to agree to a lie and the witness says 'no I didn't say that' and serna says 'oh okay' and moves on to his next big set up....

Serna must be notorious for making stuff up since Detective Jones said be didn't believe anything that came out of Serna's mouth. It was probably worth the contempt threat from the judge just to zing Serna. I know I enjoyed it!
 
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Thanks for all the updates everyone, I couldn't keep the feed going this afternoon for anything, buffering constantly, hopefully Friday will go smoother. And with less Serna. The mouth on that man.
 
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I've read that all females following that trial fell in love with Juan!

You read that right! Juan was an animal for justice in that courtroom, and he got the answers he was looking for by not taking any cr*p from anyone. He never used notes...he knew the facts and details of that case. He was a little pistol in that courtroom. Confident men are just hot ;)
Darn. I'm still crushing on him.
 
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Thanks so much for all the updates and descriptive comments everyone is posting here. It's the next best thing to watching the trial. I was particularly moved by the descriptions of Tera's dad's testimony. My heart goes out to him and the rest of the Cordova family, including Tera's children.

May justice be served in this case.

Sent from my SPH-D700
 
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http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3072555.shtml?cat=504

Slain wife's father takes stand in Levi Chavez trial

Cordova testified that Chavez packed up their home three days later and allegedly told him, "You are going to have to face the fact that she did this to herself."

http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/crime/levi-chavez-trial-returns-to-testimony

Levi Chavez trial returns to testimony

On Tuesday the judge pulled the case from the brink of dismissal after Chavez's attorney raised questions about a key prosecution witness.

http://blogs.krqe.com/2013/06/19/levi-chavez-trial-live-blog-day-8/


Levi Chavez trial, live blog day 8

Judge confirms there will be no court tomorrow so he can handle his regular docket #LeviChavez
 
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No trial today. But here is breakfast for anyone who drops in.

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Have a great day, folks. See you all tomorrow.
 
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Off to work. Please keep those comments coming! :seeya: Enjoy the brunch!
 
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I see there's me and one guest on this thread, the Bill Withers song 'Just the two of us' came to mind. lol
 
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Good Morning everyone. I needed yesterday off to recover from Wednesday. My goodness what a day and I will post the link but I read this great article from the ABQ Journal that really described Wednesday very well that basically Levi's entire alibi was on trial. I will post the link just wanted to check in first.
 
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What wonderful treats will Mr. Serna and Co. bring us today?
Something hilarious to start our weekends I am sure!

Does this trial usually start on time?
I have come late each day since I started watching, and I am used to JA's trial, which seemed to always be a minimum of 1/2 hour late daily.

ETA- Spoke to soon...Stream is live!
 
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I just posted a portion of the article. This reporter Jeff Procter has been doing really terrific writing on this trial. Look for his articles from the ABQ Journal for anyone that may be knew to the trial or just want good recaps because this has not been an easy one to follow that is for sure.

http://www.abqjournal.com/main/212497/news/levis-alibi-on-trial.html

BERNALILLO – Testimony in the Levi Chavez murder trial Wednesday honed in on the former APD officer’s alibi – a claim that he was at a girlfriend’s house when his wife died of a gunshot wound to the mouth.

Chavez has maintained he discovered his wife’s body in their Los Lunas home around 9 p.m. on Oct. 21, 2007. He told a 911 operator that she appeared to have been dead “at least a day.”

Chavez’s version of events is that he spent Friday night, Oct. 19, at Deborah Romero’s home in Albuquerque and then worked on Saturday, Oct. 20, from 2 p.m. to midnight, before going back to Romero’s house.

He told investigators that he hadn’t been to his home since earlier that Friday.

Defense attorney David Serna tried repeatedly Wednesday to pin Romero to a specific time that Chavez arrived at her home on Oct. 21.

And every time, Romero’s answer was essentially the same.

“I don’t know what time he got there,” said Romero, who was testifying on the eighth day of Chavez’s murder trial in Sandoval County District Court.

Once, in response to an attempt by Serna to suggest Romero has maintained for nearly six years that Chavez couldn’t have arrived any later than 1 a.m., Romero said: “You’re kind of twisting that around. Please don’t try to twist it and turn it. I don’t know what time he got there.”

Chavez, a former Albuquerque police officer, is charged with killing his 26-year-old wife, Tera Chavez, with his department-issued handgun in the couple’s home near Los Lunas and making it look like a suicide.

If convicted, he could face life in prison.

Levi Chavez and Serna maintain Tera was depressed about her failing marriage, which was collapsing in part because of Levi’s affairs, and that she killed herself.

One of those affairs was with Romero, who also was an APD officer in October 2007.

Romero testified Wednesday that Levi Chavez told her he was “going through a divorce” when she began dating him and that “he was not a married man.”

“Otherwise, I would not have been in that relationship,” Romero said, after having testified earlier through tears that “this whole thing was just so disgusting and such a disgrace – that made me upset, and I’m upset now.”

Serna hammered away at Romero about previous statements she made to Valencia County Sheriff’s detectives and to Serna himself during a pre-trial interview in April.

During those interviews, Romero answered “yes” to questions about whether Levi Chavez had arrived at her home in Albuquerque’s Northeast Heights around 1 a.m. She also answered “yes” to a statement Serna made in the April interview that Chavez couldn’t have arrived as late as 3 a.m.

But during questioning by prosecutor Bryan McKay, it came out that Romero also had said, “I don’t know what time he got here; that’s the bottom line” during both interviews.
 
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I wanted to see what LC was reading but the camera guy could not focus. Uggg
 
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Off to work. Please keep those comments coming! :seeya: Enjoy the brunch!

Thanks Paintr for the yummy Brunch this morning!

Good Morning everyone!

I was reading about the Young trial some of you were on yesterday. That one looks interesting, though I can't focus on more than 1 trial at a time.

I had a good laugh at mr young bawling at his sentencing hearing. What a baby! lol
 
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Heads Up! It IS a white shoe day folks! :scared:
 
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Thanks Paintr for the yummy Brunch this morning!

Good Morning everyone!

I was reading about the Young trial some of you were on yesterday. That one looks interesting, though I can't focus on more than 1 trial at a time.

I had a good laugh at mr young bawling at his sentencing hearing. What a baby! lol

Not sure I want to ask, because at this point I am following this one, plus waiting for Schneiderman, checking out the Laura Ackerman to maybe watch, and of course still keeping up with JA. Don't think I can fit another!

But what is the Young trial? Do you have the thread link?
 
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Court in session. Here we go.
 

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