GUILTY TX - Moriah Wilson, 25, Cyclist Fatally Shot Before Race, Austin, 2022 *arrest* #9

[Seattle1]

Mills Hayes
@MillsHayesTV

Everyone is back in the court room, the Wilson & Armstrong family. Looks like we may have a decision in the sentencing of Armstrong. Stay tuned. Only took jury about 2 hours, 25 minutes.
12:20 PM · Nov 17, 2023

NEW: Jury is in and they have reached a judgement on punishment. The jury has sentenced Kaitlin Armstrong to 90 years in prison with a $10,000 fine. You can hear Kaitlin's sister, Christine crying.
@FoxNewsMMR
12:30 PM · Nov 17, 2023

Caitlin Cash up on witness stand with a letter. "Kaitlin, I want you to know that I fought for Mo with everything I had that night." She stares straight at the woman found guilty of murdering her friend, Moriah Wilson.
12:32 PM · Nov 17, 2023

"It never actually crossed my mind in the chaos of that night, that she wouldn't be alive...that she was already dead when I got there that night," Cash says. Describes washing off Moriah's blood on her hands at the police station. It was the last thing she had left of her.
12:33 PM · Nov 17, 2023

"She kept saying over and over again 'who would want to hurt my baby?'" Cash says about the convo w/ Moriah Wilson's mom, Karen, after the murder. "I've watched her in the darkest days not be able to get out of bed. I've watched her grieve for her daughter..."
12:36 PM · Nov 17, 2023

"I've watched her smile and laugh and still somehow laugh and find joy in life," Cash says about Karen Wilson. She says Karen came to her house (the murder scene) and laid on her back in the same spot that Moriah had her last breath on May 11, 2022.
12:37 PM · Nov 17, 2023

"The ripple effect is almost incomprehensible," Cash says to Armstrong. "I'll forever be honored to have known her."
12:40 PM · Nov 17, 2023

Cash says she feels guilt for not coming home earlier to prevent Moriah's death. Anger at Kaitlin. "If we're not willing to risk catastrophic failure, we're probably not dreaming, living and loving the right way," Cash reads a quote by Moriah Wilson.
12:41 PM · Nov 17, 2023

"Even after all this, I feel hope. I hope i can live a life she would be proud of. I carry her with me each day. I choose light, I choose joy and I choose love and Kaitlin I really hope you can find that too," Caitlin Cash reads to Kaitlin Armstrong before stepping down.
12:42 PM · Nov 17, 2023

Karen Wilson takes the stand, "Kaitlin Armstrong, I'm not sure if my words can penetrate your heart, but I'm going to try. I hate what you did to my beautiful daughter. It was very selfish and cowardly."
12:44 PM · Nov 17, 2023

"You never chose to face her woman to woman in a civil conversation, she would have listened. She was an amazing listener," Karen Wilson. "You and Colin could have had a beautiful life together. You destroyed that. You ruined your life, your families lives, our lives."
12:45 PM · Nov 17, 2023

"There is no winner in this story. Your actions have caused all to suffer," Karen says. "Moriah is free of the sorrow though. She is more alive than all of us here today. Nothing can ever hurt her again. You killed her earthly body but her spirit is very much alive."
12:47 PM · Nov 17, 2023

Kaitlin Armstrong leaves the court room and her sister Christine says to her, "I will always love you," while crying. Someone in the court room says, "That's Karma."
12:53 PM · Nov 17, 2023

 

[SteveP]

@alcaprari23

Mike Armstrong is standing at attention as he watches his daughter and her defense team speak to the judge. We are unable to hear their conversation with the judge.


3:52 PM · Nov 17, 2023

Perhaps she is making her request for a vegan diet in prison. Maybe she and Bryan Kohberger can swap prison recipes.

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

I am choked up. This is the saddest thing I’ve ever read. I’m not making this about me or my experience but I know exactly what she was saying when she was watching the blood go down the sink and wanting to put it back on her hands.

It’s the oddest, saddest feeling to literally want to hold onto to that blood —letting it go down the drain is like letting that person go too.

Bless her. Poor young woman. She will never forget that, but she is truly is the most amazing friend and thank God she was able to cradle Mo as Mo was flying to Heaven

I know. I admit I haven't watched many trials, and I also think a lot of people, friends or family, may just not have it in them to speak like Cash and her mom did. Confront her, speak in public... just wanting to go home and try to heal, again. Each spoke so beautifully.

More tissues.

 

[carolmaria]

@alcaprari23

Mike Armstrong is standing at attention as he watches his daughter and her defense team speak to the judge. We are unable to hear their conversation with the judge.


3:52 PM · Nov 17, 2023

As they leave, it’s the most emotion I’ve seen from KA. Am still in tears from the power of Karen Wilson’s words.

 

[arielilane]

@MillsHayesTV

Kaitlin Armstrong leaves the court room and her sister Christine says to her, "I will always love you," while crying. Someone in the court room says, "That's Karma."


3:53 PM · Nov 17, 2023

 

[arielilane]

@CarissaonFOX7

Kaitlin Armstrong has left the courtroom to begin her sentence. It looked like she was looking at her family/sister as she left the courtroom. Wilson family/friends hugging & crying.


3:57 PM · Nov 17, 2023

 

[whitelilac]

Powerful and moving words from both CC and Mo's mom, left me in tears.
Hard to find my own words......
So heartbreaking

 

[arielilane]

Kaitlin Armstrong sentenced to 90 years
https://t.co/SmbWgNnI1S

https://twitter.com/x/status/1725618805525610706

 

[BeachSky]

We need to see KA's face.

I saw her face when she signed papers up by the judge. She looked maybe tear-full (finally) and when she left probably was looking at her father in disbelief.
IMO she still thinks she’s special & should not have to follow rules. There’s gotta be a back story to how she got this way.

Moo

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

When I was in high school in the 1980s, in Driver's Ed class, we were shown accident photos. Nothing gruesome like actual bodies, but a lot of crumpled cars with dummies inside. It was their way of trying to drill into the students how critical it is to drive safely, whether following road rules, not driving while impaired, etc. Some schools even brought the cars from actual accidents to the premises so they could speak with police and see what the actions of one person led to.

I think these two women's speeches could be models for another type of educational class, or perhaps given to people currently in therapy for anger/jealousy issues, as a huge example of what one action can do, what a ripple effect it can have, for everyone involved. Maybe, just maybe, it could save a life.

 

[Seattle1]

The judge informed the jury before deliberating that she'd be eligible for parole after serving half of her sentence or 30 years, whichever comes first. So, she will actually be eligible for parole after serving 30 years. She'll be 65 years old.

Thanks, I missed this. I thought Murder with a firearm was the greater of 50% and not 30 years.

 

[Gypsy Road]

I saw her face when she signed papers up by the judge. She looked maybe tear-full (finally) and when she left probably was looking at her father in disbelief.
IMO she still thinks she’s special & should not have to follow rules. There’s gotta be a back story to how she got this way.

Moo

Tears ONLY for herself and her fate I’m sure.

 

[Mrspratcher]

Justice for Mo!

 

[SteveP]

She still has to face the felony charge of escaping custody a week or so before the trial started. She can get another 2-10 years tacked onto her sentence for that, unless they choose to let them run concurrently, and I do not believe they will. JMO

 

[BeachSky]

So she is eligible for parole in her mid 60s …
She had some friggin entitled nerve thinking she should get community supervision.

MOO

 

[Walela]

Wow. 90 years is more than I thought she would get. IMO she deserves every one of them. Does she surrender this "I'm not guilty farce" now and own what she did or will she file appeal after appeal!?!

 

[loreet]

Yay! to the sentencing decision. KA will never walk free.

The $10,000 fine is also glad news. I don’t know the exact details of of encumbering prisoner funds in Texas prisons, but in other states, the inmate is allowed certain monetary deposits to their account every month that is free and clear of restitution and fines — in Michigan that is $50. After that amount is cleared, a percentage of any additional amount new for the inmate‘s account — from any source, family deposits or inmate earnings — is applied against their balance owed and the inmate receives whatever is left after their owed percentage. $10,000 will take a very long time time to pay off at 50% deductions to the her fine.

What that means is that the burden for paying off fines generally falls upon family and more particularly gratifying for KA is that the inmate will be severely limited in what commissary/store items they can purchase inside the prison. also, fyi, prison jobs for inmates do NOT pay well. Certainly Not minimum wage. again my experience is limited to MI prisons, but it is cents per hour, not dollars.

 

[Gypsy Road]

Will she get a state appointed appellate attorney to file the appeal?

 

[arielilane]

I could have sworn I heard her say she had Mo's ashes, but later I did hear they are in Vermont.

Besides Mo’s ashes in the ground in VT. Mo’s ashes are sitting next to CC’s bedside table.

Edited: added "in the ground"

 

[SteveP]

Besides Mo’s ashes being in VT. Mo’s ashes are sitting next to CC’s bedside table.

I betcha she is gonna go home and have a long talk with Mo. I know Mo is proud and smiling down on both her and mom, Karen,