09-23-2011, 08:09 PM
i still haven't seen tape released. but LWOP is mandatory. no sentencing date set yet.
Ocala News
The jury in Charlie Kay Ely's first-degree murder trial deliberated for just more than an hour before returning with a guilty verdict on Friday.
Ely burst into tears and courtroom observers gasped as the verdict was read just after 1 p.m. The case was turned over to the 12-member jury at 11:30 a.m. They returned to the courtroom after reaching a verdict just before 12:45 p.m.
One juror in the case, a 74-year-old woman, who did not want her name used, said it was Ely's video-recorded statement to Marion County Sheriff's Detective Donald Buie, which ultimately sealed her fate.
"The interrogation, where she actually admitted knowing (Seath Jackson's killing) was going to happen, that was pretty much it. There were other things, but that was the main thing," she said.
The state had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Ely intended to lure Seath to her home so he could be killed. Further, the state also has to prove that Ely did or said something that helped cause the killing.
The video shows Ely admitting she and Amber Wright, 15, a co-defendant in the killing, were sent to lure 15-year-old Seath to Ely's home. Seath was eventually beaten, tied up and shot. His body was then burned, and his remains placed into 5-gallon buckets and thrown into a flooded limerock pit.
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Ocala News
The jury in Charlie Kay Ely's first-degree murder trial deliberated for just more than an hour before returning with a guilty verdict on Friday.
Ely burst into tears and courtroom observers gasped as the verdict was read just after 1 p.m. The case was turned over to the 12-member jury at 11:30 a.m. They returned to the courtroom after reaching a verdict just before 12:45 p.m.
One juror in the case, a 74-year-old woman, who did not want her name used, said it was Ely's video-recorded statement to Marion County Sheriff's Detective Donald Buie, which ultimately sealed her fate.
"The interrogation, where she actually admitted knowing (Seath Jackson's killing) was going to happen, that was pretty much it. There were other things, but that was the main thing," she said.
The state had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Ely intended to lure Seath to her home so he could be killed. Further, the state also has to prove that Ely did or said something that helped cause the killing.
The video shows Ely admitting she and Amber Wright, 15, a co-defendant in the killing, were sent to lure 15-year-old Seath to Ely's home. Seath was eventually beaten, tied up and shot. His body was then burned, and his remains placed into 5-gallon buckets and thrown into a flooded limerock pit.