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

[NCEast]

I will never, ever buy another Jimmy Dean product again!

 

[CUCKOOHEAD]

Mr Prosecutor if serna is asking to look at your notes then have serna get off his butt and walk over to YOUR table. What in God's name are you hopping out of your seat and going over to serna's table to retrieve your notes that serna is looking at?

Mr Prosecutor don't fall for that fake cane serna shows up with. I think it goes with his southernly gentleman look. He didn't bring it today. Make serna come to you if he needs something.

 

[NCEast]

Wow Oklahoma pays a whopping $12.00 a day. Regardless of how much money you are losing every day by not being able to open the doors of your small business. You are getting $12.00 and that covers the parking fees ($5.00 a day) and lunch (average $8.00) oh yeah and your livelihood :floorlaugh:

NC used to pay $10.00 a day. I don't know if there has been an increase or not in the past few years, probably not. It's very sad, and one of the main reason people don't want to be bothered with serving on jury duty. I've heard it said before many times that intelligent people find a way of getting out of serving. That's what's wrong with jurys, like the CA and the OJ.S trials. Many of them don't have anything else to do so the measly pay is more than they would be getting sitting at home.

 

[CUCKOOHEAD]

I will never, ever buy another Jimmy Dean product again!

:floorlaugh::floorlaugh::floorlaugh:

 

[CUCKOOHEAD]

NC used to pay $10.00 a day. I don't know if there has been an increase or not in the past few years, probably not. It's very sad, and one of the main reason people don't want to be bothered with serving on jury duty. I've heard it said before many times that intelligent people find a way of getting out of serving. That's what's wrong with jurys, like the CA and the OJ.S trials. Many of them don't have anything else to do so the measly pay is more than they would be getting sitting at home.

Am I being called an idiot? :floorlaugh: I tried to throw myself on the mercy of the court but the judge wasn't having any of it. I spent a week down town, steaming. I guess I wasn't picked for jury duty because I think the chip on my shoulder (it was the size of New Hampshire) was showing.

 

[NCEast]

I can't believe how disrespectful Serna is to the judge. He talks all over him.

 

[NCEast]

Am I being called an idiot? :floorlaugh: I tried to throw myself on the mercy of the court but the judge wasn't having any of it. I spent a week down town, steaming. I guess I wasn't picked for jury duty because I think the chip on my shoulder (it was the size of New Hampshire) was showing.

Not an idiot but a good comedy act. I needed that chuckle!!

 

[NCEast]

What is it he's sending the jury back into their room to read?

 

[NCEast]

I know sometimes a defendant in both civil and criminal cases can file on 'inneffective advice of counsel'. Can the family of TC file against this prosecution team?

 

[Jewels53]

Kansas pays $10.00 a day. The one time I served the company I worked for reimbursed me so I had to pay them the $10 I had received. So I came out ahead of the $10.

The Young trial is on lunch break right now, they are on Eastern time. So should be back now if the feed is working.

 

[NCEast]

JosephLeeLynch ‏@JosephLeeLynch 3m

Rose Slama affidavit is passed to the jury for them to read during recess. Trial will continue after lunch break

 

[NCEast]

Kansas pays $10.00 a day. The one time I served the company I worked for reimbursed me so I had to pay them the $10 I had received. So I came out ahead of the $10.

The Young trial is on lunch break right now, they are on Eastern time. So should be back now if the feed is working.

Glad you didn't go in the hole. My husband served a few years ago and got paid by the county and his regular job. He got to keep both, thankfully. I can't remember how long he served, maybe a week and a half, and then they ended up with a plea bargain.

 

[geevee]

Wow Oklahoma pays a whopping $12.00 a day. Regardless of how much money you are losing every day by not being able to open the doors of your small business. You are getting $12.00 and that covers the parking fees ($5.00 a day) and lunch (average $8.00) oh yeah and your livelihood :floorlaugh:

You only get 6.00 a day in Houston, they recently upped the amount to 40.00 per day if it's a long case but I don't know what the determining factors for that are.

I've been called about a dozen times (and sat on one day-long case) and never received more than 6.00 which didn't even cover parking, not to mention gas to downtown Houston, an hour no matter where you're coming from.

I worked for a small business guy (tax and accounting CPA) and both of us were regularly called over the years, quite hard on the business aspect of it, esp. at tax time. lol

 

[NCEast]

The only two times I've ever been called I was in an ulcerative colitis flare and couldn't serve. I was so disappointed. I want to be a juror on a high profile (for my area) at least once before I die. I think of it as a privilege, as do most of you probably. Sadly, we are in the minority.

 

[NCEast]

You only get 6.00 a day in Houston, they recently upped the amount to 40.00 per day if it's a long case but I don't know what the determining factors for that are.

I've been called about a dozen times (and sat on one day-long case) and never received more than 6.00 which didn't even cover parking, not to mention gas to downtown Houston, an hour no matter where you're coming from.

I worked for a small business guy (tax and accounting CPA) and both of us were regularly called over the years, quite hard on the business aspect of it, esp. at tax time. lol

Dang, $6.00 a day is awful, especially with having to drive into the city and pay for parking and then eat lunch. Gosh, I hope the $40.00 is for everything aside from a parking ticket trial or some such trivial matter.

 

[NCEast]

I'm going to take my old lady nap. See you in a little bit!

 

[calamityjane831]

I listened to the Samantha Wheeler testimony while driving my son to his camp... my son had on his head phones listening to his music. Anyway I continue to recognize the way Serna continuously puts words and ideas out onto the witness and they say No or I don't remember that then No again or I did not say that. I hope this is not lost on the jury.

One thing that I did find profound is that in August 2007 Tera told SW that she was having an affair with NW. ??? It just shows me that even when TC did something not so great she still was more honest then LC. To me the one single affair that TC affair had is irrelevant in the big picture unless Serna is trying to create motive.

 

[calamityjane831]

http://www.abqjournal.com/main/213844/news/alibi-witness-tries-to-get-out-of-chave-ztrial.html

10:03 a.m.

BERNALILLO–Levi Chavez’s APD partner on the weekend in 2007 when Chavez allegedly killed his wife may yet testify in the ongoing murder trial in state District Court. But if Russell Perea does testify, he’ll do so with a promise of immunity.

State District Judge George P. Eichwald said during a hearing on Perea’s testimony this morning that he will look into whether he himself can grant the former APD officer his immunity.

Eichwald said he had a week or so to figure it out.

That’s because Perea wouldn’t take the stand until next week at the earliest, when Chavez’s attorney, David Serna, begins the presentation of his case in chief.

Serna had sought to compel Perea’s testimony as an alibi witness for Chavez.

But Perea, through his attorney, Sam Bregman, made it clear that he intended to assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and that he would not testify.

“Every citizen in this country has the right to the Fifth Amendment,” Bregman said in court this morning. “Where are the immunity orders, judge? If they want my client’s testimony so bad, they need to grant him some kind of immunity.”

Bryan McKay, the chief prosecutor in Chavez’s murder case, said that if Perea takes the witness stand — regardless of any immunity order — any and all potential questions of Perea are fair game.

“If he gets called, we will assert our right to fully and effectively cross-examine him,” McKay said.

Also this morning, Eichwald ruled that prosecutors can play a recorded deposition Chavez gave in a civil wrongful death lawsuit against him.

The prosecutors, however, will only be allowed to play the audio of that recording.

Eichwald, picking up on a concern raised by Serna, said he didn’t want the jury to see the video, in part, because Chavez was dressed casually during the deposition and he didn’t appear pleased to be speaking with civil attorneys hired by the family of his dead wife, Tera Chavez.

 

[geevee]

I listened to the Samantha Wheeler testimony while driving my son to his camp... my son had on his head phones listening to his music. Anyway I continue to recognize the way Serna continuously puts words and ideas out onto the witness and they say No or I don't remember that then No again or I did not say that. I hope this is not lost on the jury.

One thing that I did find profound is that in August 2007 Tera told SW that she was having an affair with NW. ??? It just shows me that even when TC did something not so great she still was more honest then LC. To me the one single that TC affair had is irrelevant in the big picture unless Serna is trying to create motive.

I notice Serna doing that as well.

I'm a little lost on Nick's wife being told by Tera that Tera and Nick had or were having an affair, didn't she let Nick know she knew? He told her himself on her birthday so he obviously didn't know Tera had told her a couple months ago. I'm totally confused there.

 

[calamityjane831]

I notice Serna doing that as well.

I'm a little lost on Nick's wife being told by Tera that Tera and Nick had or were having an affair, didn't she let Nick know she knew? He told her himself on her birthday so he obviously didn't know Tera had told her a couple months ago. I'm totally confused there.

In his testimony NW stated that he told SW about his affair on October 24, 2007 in the p.m. In that testimony NW stated that he did not know that his wife already knew about the affair but she did already know about it. SW must have NOT disclosed to NW that she knew about the affair when Tera disclosed it to SW. SW gave her husband a lot of rope if you ask me.

During that testimony we never learned how SW learned of the affair. Today we learned how, Tera told her. amazing.