JULIE COREY TRIAL: MURDER AND KIDNAPPING

[HairOfTheDog]

Julie Corey, 39, has been in state prison for nearly five years. Jury selection was held last week. The trial started this morning in Worcester Superior Court, Mass.



Julie Corey ^ is accused of killing her former neighbor, Darlene Haynes, 23, and cutting open her abdomen to steal the woman's fetus.



Darlene Haynes ^ was eight months pregnant when she was murdered and her fetus was stolen.

Corey and her boyfriend, Alex Dion, introduced the baby publicly as their own, according to authorities. Dion wasn't charged; he was not involved in the murder and was misled into believing that the baby was theirs. Corey had a miscarriage and had led him to believe she was still pregnant.

A few days after Darlene Haynes was found dead, Corey and Dion and the healthy baby were found in a homeless shelter in New Hampshire.

The defense is expected to argue that police didn't investigate other possible suspects, like Darlene Haynes' boyfriend, against whom she had a restraining order at the time of her murder.

Yeah, Corey was found with Haynes' baby, claiming she'd given birth to it, and police should have looked at other suspects? Well, hey, it's an open and shut case and defense attorneys gotta do what they gotta do; they don't have much to work with on this one.

I'm waiting to see if the defense puts forth some kind of mental defect claim as the trial begins. I would if I were in their unenviable shoes.

Anyway, the bitch needs to be committed for life - prison or psych - whichever is appropriate. But, no chance of release, ever. IMO.

Haynes' 4 year-old now lives with her bio dad.

Here's an article about the case:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/01/27/ope...ng-friend/

[SIXFOOTERsez]

Look at the eyes on that one, crazy as a shithouse mouse

[HairOfTheDog]

Look at the eyes on that one, crazy as a shithouse mouse

She looks deranged to me, too.

Here's a short summary of trial highlights this week:

On Monday, Defense attorneys representing Julie Corey spent the first day of her trial suggesting that police did not do a thorough enough job investigating other suspects.

On Tuesday, the jurors took a field trip to view Haynes' former home, where she was killed.

On Wednesday, Medical records presented in court showed Julie Corey was herself 30 weeks pregnant a few months before the killing.

Today, several prosecution witnesses are scheduled to testify for the state.

Looks like the defense is still pushing the common "some other dude did it" defense. IMO, there's way too much evidence against Corey for that strategy to work in creating reasonable juror doubt as to her guilt in this case.

[HairOfTheDog]

Jury Deliberations Underway


Julie Corey, cleaned up and toned down for trial

I think Corey's defense attorney did about as good a job as possible in attempt to get his client off the hook.

He kept pointing the finger at Darlene Haynes' boyfriend, Roberto Rodriquez, as her killer. They had a tumultuous relationship and Rodriquez had been convicted of assaulting Dalrene 2 years prior.

But, why in the hell would Rodriguez kill Darlene at full term pregnancy and then rip the baby from her? And, how in the hell did the baby get into Julie Corey's possession?

Well, the defense attorney says that the sheer brutality of the crime, including repeated blows to the head and strangulation - along with the sliced abdomen - prove that it was a crime of passion and anger, not the crime of somebody who just wanted the baby.

The defense attorney adds that police didn't investigate alternate suspects after they found Corey with Darlene's baby and failed to look at and process all of the evidence available.

And, the defense attorney claims that it wasn't Julie Corey calling her boyfriend from Rodriguez's phone (which he shared with Darlene) pretending to be at the hospital giving birth right after the murder. Instead, he argues, that it was Rodriquez using the shared phone to call Corey's boyfriend (Alex Dion) in a panic because he felt guilty about killing Darlene, saved the baby, and didn't know what to do next.



Problem is, Alex Dion (pictured above with Julie Corey and the baby) didn't know jack shit, according to police and prosecutors. He was grilled extensively. He truly believed that Corey had given birth to their baby, by all accounts. Corey had lost her baby just weeks before and had kept that hidden from Alex Dion.

Neither Alex Dion nor Roberto Rodriquez was charged in the murder of Darlene Haynes or kidnapping the baby. Prosecutor Bennett scoffed at the idea of Roberto Rodriguez masterminding anything.

The defense attorney did not attempt to explain how the baby actually ended up in Julie Corey's hands.

Will the SODDI defense work to create reasonable doubt about Julie Corey's guilt? God, I hope not. I think Corey's going down for capital murder, but do wish that the prosecution had physical evidence against her (to compliment the overwhelming circumstantial evidence).

Ref: http://www.masslive.com/news/worcester/i...losin.html

[HairOfTheDog]

VERDICT IN: JULIE COREY GUILTY OF 1^ST DEGREE MURDER

It took years to get to trial, but the jury came back with a verdict in only a day.

Corey was found guilty of killing her 23-year-old pregnant friend, Darlene Haynes, following her own miscarriage.

The jury found her guilty of beating and strangling Darlene, then cutting the baby from her womb and passing the child off as her daughter.

Julie Corey, 39, sobbed as the verdict of the Worcester Superior Court was read.

Sentencing was scheduled for Tuesday, 2/18. Corey faces a maximum of life in prison.

[HairOfTheDog]

Julie Corey was sentenced on Tuesday. She got the max - life in prison.

Darlene Haynes' father attended the sentencing with her ashes. The 9-year-old daughter of Haynes' wrote a letter which was read in court, calling Corey "mean" for killing her mom.

Corey will never see the outside of a prison. Good.

[Duchess]

I usually am glad we live in a civilized country where people aren't burned at the stake or tortured but I wouldn't have been opposed to it in this case.