GUILTY TN - Evelyn Boswell, 15 months, Sullivan County, 26 DEC 2019 *MOM ARRESTED* #10

[AnyNameIWish]

I for one am relieved that despite much confusion in the timeline (friend can't remember exact date they went to Applebee's with MB and a messy/unkempt Evelyn.... no one seems to be able to say when the 1st day of work was for MB at the Chicken shack.... it's like hello? No one checked credit card statements or cameras or eyewitness statements or payroll records or anything!?) ... despite this, the jury figured it out. They didn't buy the hints that it could have been Someone Else. For that, I am relieved.

51 plus 23 is still 74 years old. Even if it's at 80% that still leaves her at around 63 years old. MB could have shared memories with Evelyn, become a grandmother.... all gone now.

 

[PeriwinkleE]

Thank goodness the jury did the right thing. May someone stuff Megan into a trash can.

 

[MsMarple]

So it looks like the jury will determine Megan’s sentence. I guess they’ll have to be unanimous.

The jury began deliberating on Wednesday afternoon. After closing arguments wrapped up, the jury spent about four and a half hours deliberating between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning.

Judge Jim Goodwin sent the jury back for a brief recess before they immediately moved into a sentencing trial. Based on her first-degree murder convictions, the jury will determine if Boswell will face life in prison without the possibility of parole or life in prison.

https://www.wjhl.com/search-for-evelyn/live-jury-returns-verdict-in-megan-boswell-trial/

 

[SluethinAway]

 

[Tealgrove]

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LE despises her. They are just sticking it to her. It’s more symbolic than anything but I like it.

MOO

 

[Wishbone]

jury has been out 2 hours. Is this going to take as long as the murder verdict?

 

[lisette]

WLVT came back on for a few minutes… The judge said the jury had a question… Then it cut back off

 

[shotgun09]

I just went scrollin through the tube, trying to find a local news station carrying the trial. I came upon News5 WCYB. They had just started a new feed, with the dual screen of the court shown. Judge was replying to a question the jury had on the sentencing forms. Then...out of no-where...the backs of jurors were shown walking to their seats. Cut Feed.



ETA: Link

 

[lisette]

I watched it on WL TV… Life in prison… They didn’t state with or without parole. So I guess it’s without? Very weird because the jury foreperson read the verdict… It was a woman …didn’t show her but could hear her …then after the jury was dismissed and they were leaving, it showed two of the men jurors

 

[Vaderman]

Life with the possibility of parole.

 

[Seattle1]

https://www.wjhl.com/search-for-evelyn/live-jury-returns-verdict-in-megan-boswell-trial/

2/13/25​

Goodwin Instructs the Jury​

Judge Jim Goodwin charged the jury with reaching a verdict as to Boswell’s sentencing. Tennessee law states that anyone convicted of first-degree murder must serve life in prison or life in prison without the possibility of parole.

If Boswell were sentenced to life in prison, she would be required to serve 51 years.

If she were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, Boswell would never leave prison.

The defense filed 11 factors for the jury to consider when rendering the sentencing verdict. The defense asked the jury to consider Boswell’s age, upbringing and difficult upbringing in making the decision.

The jury was sent to deliberate on Boswell’s sentencing, and the court entered recess until jurors reached a verdict.

ETA:

2021 - Supreme Court Rejects Restriction on LWOP

After striking down the death penalty for juvenile offenders, the United States Supreme Court, in a series of decisions, limited life without parole sentences to the rarest cases — those juvenile offenders convicted of murder who are so incorrigible that there is no hope for their rehabilitation.

In 2004, the Court further ruled that minors who received LWOP sentences had to be resentenced.

Twenty-five states ban life without parole for juveniles entirely. And six more states do not have anyone serving that sentence for a crime committed when a juvenile.

For example, in 2021, WA State ruled mandatory LWOP sentences unconstitutional for offenders younger than 21, and in the 19 states that do allow life without parole for juvenile murderers younger than 21, their unlimited appeals are being heard in Federal Courts as Civil Rights Violations!

If MB sentenced to LWOP, I see her in this category -- complete with her pink hair bows and pastel sweater, some group will use her as their poster child--claiming the teen was never before in trouble with the law until her child died an unexplained death, and she's doing LWOP because she repeatedly lied to police-- as she was taught to do. And those of us who followed this case and the trial will scream 'rubbish' when we read those headlines! MOO

 

[shotgun09]

Speaking with MOO, but the 'view' from this camera was pointed directly at the courtroom, as if it was itself positioned directly above where the jury sat. The short video of the jurors as they were walking/side-stepping towards their seats (while upright ) was able to catch their upper bodies. Just a dumb mistake. IMO

 

[arielilane]

@cathyrusson


Megan Boswell will have a chance at parole in 51 years.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1890120492860035102

2:31 PM · Feb 13, 2025

https://twitter.com/x/status/1890121744142463144

 

[Seattle1]

Jury Reaches Sentencing Verdict​

The jury reached its verdict and revealed it to the court shortly after 2:20 p.m.

On all three of Boswell’s first-degree murder convictions, the jury decided on a sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole. The verdict means Boswell will serve 51 years before she is eligible for parole.

The jurors were thanked for their service and released from the court.

Sentencing for Boswell on her other charges will be decided at a hearing on May 22 at 1:30 p.m.

At that hearing, the court will discuss the merging of some charges and the way in which her sentence is carried out.

Horne asked to be released as co-counsel from the case, which Goodwin granted.

https://www.wjhl.com/search-for-evelyn/live-jury-returns-verdict-in-megan-boswell-trial/

 

[Wishbone]

51 years before eligible for parole I believe.

 

[Wishbone]

she has already served 5 years she will get credit for

 

[Wishbone]

I was hoping for lwop but at least she got life and that is better than some child killers have received.

 

[Wishbone]

The jury recommends #MeganBoswell, 24, be sentenced to LIFE WITH the possibility of parole after 51 years for the murder of her 15-month-old Evelyn, whose remains were found stuffed in a trashcan.
Boswell's official sentencing is scheduled for May 22nd.

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[Leilei]

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Dang, that's a bad day.

 

[arielilane]

@cathyrusson


Megan Boswell will have a chance at parole in 51 years.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1890120492860035102

2:31 PM · Feb 13, 2025

https://twitter.com/x/status/1890121744142463144

@cathyrusson


Now the reporrter's post is gone. Stand by for confirmation on parole.

Megan Boswell will have a chance at parole in 51 years.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1890120492860035102

2:44 PM · Feb 13, 2025