@@SuomiMama I do too. I’m watching the Tex McIver trial now. If I couldn’t fast forward, I couldn’t make it through this trial. It’s 23 days and the attorneys talk so slowly and ask so many useless questions, I’d tear my hair out, but it’s also very interesting
Somebody suggested it when I first started watching trials and it was such a sanity-saving hint for those who love trials that I try to remember to pass it on
My apologies for the date on the below post. I had gotten erroneous info or misread something before, that LA murder occurred after Jessica's murder, appallingly enough. However, dearest Quinton still had a criminal record of two prior burglaries when he started dating Jessica, and had been released from jail only two months prior to meeting her. Also, a heads up for all you young ladies out there--if a male does not take no for answer over the course of four days--four days!--then do not associate with him, as he does not respect your wishes. End of story. Again, no disrespect to Jessica's parents. Maybe they did caution her against him. I have watched some of the Oxygen special on her trial, and want to watch it fully.
Thanks for the info Liselle👍and the heads up for all the young ladies that are vulnerable to monsters like this guy!!! I'm not young and I'm married and feel safe but I had a neice that would have been 19,1 week before her death,so she came to live with my husband and i to stay out of trouble and she would always scare me to death because she would want to stay the night with guys the first night she met them and of course we would say no way but she was already 18 when she came to stay with us and would sneak out to be with these guy's😲Anyway,she met this guy moved out and in with him which i was against of course that got her into hard drugs and was mean to her,they were together 2 months and she wanted to come back to my house so I told her she could only stay long enough for a friend to take her back home!!! I had a 13yr old daughter that I didn't want that kind of influence around and I was also afraid she would wind up with a guy like the one about in this hearing and getting killed but she died anyways in a car accident 1 week before a friend was supposed to get her and take her home😢Out of all my nieces,she was my favorite!!! She died in 2009,1week before her birthday and then 1 week after her birthday was Easter😢I still miss her like it was yesterday😢
I've followed the opening statement perfectly fine.. truly upsetting but shhhh Sir you might wake the gentleman up back row on the defense team.. he's having a good old snooze 😴
This opening statement is awful. He's all over the place, trying to explain too many things, not chronologically, digressing on every point... what is he even talking about.
People complaining that the prosecutors opening statement is too long and boring like it’s some kind of action movie……. It’s not for your entertainment, people
This is one of those cases where I can only pray that they get it right, and hold the truly guilty party (or parties) accountable for the horror they inflicted. And I rarely pray.
I don't find the Prosecutor confusing at all. I wonder what the average intelligence is in Mississippi, though: because this guy is speaking to the jurors as if they are unlikely to understand anything. Strange.
Why didnt the judge STOP the prosecutor, when the prosecutor TOLD the jury to "LOOK FOR THE TACO BELL TONITE on your way to the hotel" ????? Judges are ALWAYS telling juries NOT to investigate ANYTHING on their own. Kinda weird.
This is a horrible death. This prosecuting attorney is a poor lawyer and it is apparent right off the bat he enjoys hearing himself talk. The EMT first responders state they asked Jessica who did this to her, and she said "Eric". Jessica and Quentin both have a known person with a criminal record named Eric. This prosecutor says the first responders heard her wrong. How likely is it the first responders who do not know any of the involved parties would mistakenly hear "Eric" in place of "Derek"?
Is it just me having a hard time finding this prosecutor capable?? When Juan Martinez did his opening statement for Jodi Arias's case, we were all drawn in instantly!
The prosecutor didn't investigate this case. The investigators did. He's giving himself too much credit. Besides that he's saying that the information the phone company gave about location of her cellphone and his cellphone is wrong but the prosecution's data analyst who is biased is right.
Id imagine that an innocent man , who was charged with this terrible crime. Would be horrified and emotional at the sight of those photos of Jessica's burnt body. But he wasn't. Not to mention that Quentin was supposed to be her friend. That is a huge red flag. In my opinion
FYI Defense lawyers tell their clients not to show emotion, but I did notice a momentary wince and then looking away from Tellis at one point. Tellis has some sort of Personality disorder, probably Antisocial/ADHD because he's a habitual liar and petty criminal, but it doesn't make him a murderer. Reasonable Doubt is all over this case.
This ERIC thing has come up a lot I have also heard it said that maybe she had thought she had been in an accident and was saying "a wreck" or just "wreck" because going from being unconscious to being on fire for fire minutes is going to seriously mess up your head. Or maybe she couldn't speak properly. its not knowable if she said eric or if thats just what they thought she was saying. what is a fact is this. Shelly flowers drove home without passing anyone. she grabbed jackets started driving back and saw a man fitting tellis description walking towards H51. he was coming from the direction of herron road which was a 4 minute walk away. he claimed he was julie chambers nephew and needed to goto her house. he fit the description of tellis whose aunt is julie chambers. forgetting all other evidence the fact a guy claiming to be tellis just walked from the crime scene should have convicted him. the only way it wasn't tellis is if.... A man who knew tellis and his aunt who looked like tellis was waiting near his house watching them. he followed jess to herron rd killed her left his car and started walking towards H51. he then flagged down a witness got in her car and asked to be taken to julies house. he then gets out and walks 20 minutes back to the car and gets the petrol sets fire to it and then leaves in his car.
Why aren't Prosecutors more like defense lawyers? Prosecutors are so boring, dry and no fun. Defense lawyers are often so much livelier and real interesting to listen to. It's like the Prosecutors believe they have to be so serious all the time. You can have the deepest respect for a victim and be interesting at the same time. They should be taught this or learn from the defense.
nope it is because all of the prosecutors were at 1 time defense lawyers!!! and are buddies w each other!! it is a big circle,yr in yr in for life, nice and not conflict of interest!! RT????? rightttt,our system is broken sadly
@Leo O ...I agree. Attorneys are more effective when they’ve got a charismatic personality. They obviously need to be good story tellers who are clear and concise. But an animated lawyer can keep an audience locked in, even when discussing information that’s typically uninteresting.
Ugh, I can't even read the comments on trial videos anymore. Half of the people who comment have zero logic skills or imagination, and it's quite maddening. People think that DNA on the keys is proof of murder. Only proves he touched the keys at some point during the history of the planet. He could have driven the car, he could have picked them up off a table and handed them to her... a week before her death, even, etc.. How would you like to go to prison for murder simply because you touched someone's keys once?! The defendant "claims" they had sex beforehand, and people take his claim as a fact. To be expected from rapists in case DNA is found. They can just preemptively say, "We had consentual sex." If he raped her that would easily explain why he burnt her - to destroy the evidence! People think that just because she was still alive proves that he didn't suffocate her. It's common knowledge that when you are suffocated or strangled that you pass out before you die. It's not difficult to imagine that he suffocated her until she passed out and that he "thought" she was dead. (The prosecutor even said that! Listen.) Then the fire wakes her up. First responders "claim" she said Eric or Derrick while her esophagus and lips were burnt, so people say, "Well his name is Quinton, so he's obviously innocent. We can all go home, now" This is what happens when you use emotions instead of logic - when you try to make the facts fit with your preconceived opinion. A form of Confirmation Bias? The antithesis of fair justice. Sadly, it's quite statistically likely that over half of any jury is filled with such people.
Hopefully no one on the jury thinks as you do. The presumption of innocence is critical to your freedom. No jury will let him walk if there is enough evidence to convict him. If found guilty, he deserves all they misery he'll get. If there isn't enough evidence, he absolutely should be found not guilty. Having the victim say in her own words, "Eric did this to me." This was heard by eight unbiased people. That's compelling evidence, and not against Quinton.
Why drive your murder victim from the murder scene to a dump site and return to the murder scene for the gas? If he raped and strangled her at the house, he should have taken the gas cam with him to the dump site. Who leaves a murder victim alone, out of your control without being sure there is no pulse first? Where is the evidence she was strangled or suffocated? Why didn't he just leave the gas can to burn in the fire? Did his sister's car smell like gas or fire? Why is there no evidence of rape? Why was she walking toward the car instead of away? Why is the passenger door not open if she got out of on that side? Why wasn't her cell phone in the car? Why was it outside the driver's side? These things don't add up to her being passed out down there alone for 40 minutes inside the car. Her cell phone has no business outside the driver's side of the car. Her clothes, either. Doesn't add up.
This was the most confusing opening statement I’ve ever heard. It was all over the place. I hope the trial is better organized than the prosecutors opening statements 😢
I sure hope the Defense addresses all the omissions, inaccuracies and unsubstantiated statements made by this District Attorney. I always listen to witnesses' sworn testimonies first then opening and closing statements so I know whether the lawyers are accurate and I have a dozen questions for this joker. The goal is a just verdict for Jessica, finding her murderer, not just pinning her murder on any convenient, vulnerable old dude.
This “DA” IS justa “GOOD OL’ Boy” which IS TO SAY just what you’d except. If this was a movie he wooda come right outta “central casting” ! Which IS PERFECT. ‘Northers” don’t GET IT or HIM. But the jury does....... which IS ALL THAT MATTERS !
This guy is really boring. People talk very slow in this trial, my god he goes into so much detail and it really is unecessary. He goes on and on about the freakin cell towers, why do we need to know about all this. Maybe this is how people talk in Mississippi. Just get on with it already.
The camera operator autta put a little lube on the pivot point on his “high hat”, oh for all Y’all NONE movie people that’s the platform that the camera is attached to because he’s MAKIN MY eyes stop AND start when he’s panning back and forth. And that’s ALMOST as aggravating as this “DA’s” ATTEMPT at telling a story a with ANY kinda “flow” to it !
‘Taco Bell” aka Batesville’s “FINE DINNING” hot spot ! Big Mike, Quintin, Bill, Mike, Jerry, Tom, Terry and Phil ! MY question IS.........”Who’’s On First” ?
Her mother didn't have good communication with Jessica. I already saw the testimony from her mom and she didn't even know where her daughter was going. It sounds like a strained relationship between them. I will keep an open mind in this case but what I just said was very evident!
I feel bad to say this but that 19 yr old live at home daughter had F A R too much freedom with her phone and car and 'no one' really checking on her....sad. Look at horrific result. How do you not understand, esp. given neighborhood, that you set your daughter up?
What 19 year old girl tells their mom everything...especially when it involves a sexual relationship?? Her mother knew her daughter & her behaviors. Did she know where she was every moment, no. This isn't unusual. It doesn't mean the relationship was strained.
Did anyone ever consider she was trying to say Jessica not Erik. That she was trying to identify herself. In her condition it would make sense. And this guy got off twice because of that?
That attorney doesn’t seem to have his stuff together. So sad they couldn’t have more professional people to step in. Either way my heart goes out to the family, for not one loss but for the loss of both of their children.
The DA did great. He connected the cell phones. Those cell phones tell on the murders every time, both murderer and victim's phones following the murderer every step of the way. How is the perp going to explain his DNA on the the victim's keys found halfway between the victim and his sister?
Wowwwww the prosecutor is TERRIBLE!! And the reason he has to make a big deal to the jury about "paying attention" is because he probably has put jurors to sleep on every case he's tried. Droning, boring voice PLUS crappy and useless content if one can stay awake to listen. Some lawyers are just not meant for trials. He should have studied to be a tax attorney. Ugh. (Also, hello to anyone else watching this in 2020...)
not a terribly good opening statement in my opinion - it's disjointed - it rambles - he keeps interrupting himself - digressing - bring up sub-points -all he needs to do is tell a simple narrative at this point - a simple compelling story that he expects the evidence to support - he doesn't need to go on this epic rambling tale...
