Heres a tip losers, dont do the crime and you dont have to worry about pretrial publiciity. Take your punishment and hope the needle sticks in you deep.
Continued publicity in the case of a Columbia County woman and son accused in the fatal beating of a neighbor -- including the mother's description of her son's involvement -- might delay their trial, a defense attorney said Monday.
"It will cause problems with regard to venue for sure," said Victor Hawk, the attorney for Rebecca Sears, who along with her son Christopher Bowers is accused in the March 25 beating that killed her Grovetown neighbor Laverne "Kay" Parsons.
Both suspects are being held in the Columbia County Detention Center.
Details from search warrants released Friday prompted Mr. Hawk to say, "There will be motions addressing pretrial publicity, changes of venue, things of that nature."
Mrs. Sears and Mr. Bowers pleaded not guilty to murder, armed robbery and burglary charges at an arraignment hearing Wednesday.
Mr. Hawk said it is an inappropriate time for details of the investigation to emerge because the information is one-sided.
"They (sheriff's office investigators) use summaries of their interviews," Mr. Hawk said. "We found that it is not unusual that some of these (depart) from actual tape recordings. We've already subpoenaed the tape recordings and the videos, and we're just awaiting a response."
In the search warrant application filed earlier this month with the Columbia County Clerk of Superior Court, investigators described interviews with Mrs. Sears, another son who is not charged and a confidential informant.
In one interview, the informant told police that Mrs. Sears wanted someone to kill Mrs. Parsons so she could pursue an affair with the victim's husband.
In another, according to the affidavit, Mrs. Sears told police that Mr. Bowers hid in her bedroom on the morning of the attack until she took her younger children to school. He then used a hammer to break the glass of Mrs. Parsons' back door to enter her home.
Mrs. Sears said her son staged a burglary while waiting for Mrs. Parsons to return, then attacked her as she entered through the garage door and beat her with a hammer and a baseball bat, according to the summarized statements.
Mrs. Sears told police she saw her son later with blood on his face and said he told her "he took care of everything."
Attorneys and prosecutors will meet July 7 to hear motions before a trial starts. No trial date has been set.
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Heres a tip losers, dont do the crime and you dont have to worry about pretrial publiciity. Take your punishment and hope the needle sticks in you deep.
There is not a man on earth worth killing some one over and to have your own son commit this crime.You don't deserve to live
This is a clear example of people who degrade our race as civilized humans, and right in our own back yard. No Mercy for these two.
I hope she gets the death penalty. She is downright evil.
I'm with yall but be careful, others are going to chastise you for judging. LOL
Funny Hawk isn't doing much to squelch the publicity of his clients now is he??????????
Another Hail Mary pass on the part of the defense. Interesting how the mother threw her son under the bus.
To bad we cannot throw both of them under a rolling bus !
This is some classic Lifetime mess! These two or going to get a slap on the wrist and come out with a movie & book deal. Meantime our tax money is going to be paying for these loser. Let's skip the trial and inject the needle.
justus4, CJ 101 AGAIN. Plead NOT GUILTY the death penalty is on the the table. Plead guilty & it's usually removed. Pretrial publicity is an automatic request for change of venue, remember just about every publicity charged trial? With the FACTS I have, I can see her pleading to conspiracy & not much else, especially after she threw her son under the bus (so she's probably looking at life with a possibility of parole). Her son, on the other hand, doesn't have a prayer. That's with the FACTS I have. So, methinks I already have a better understanding of upcoming events. P&H, I've never heard of a "slap on the wrist" for beating someone to death with a bat & a hammer, recently. Can you cite any?
KK When I stated a slap on the wrist I mean serve a few years and than out on probation. I don't think they will get the death penalty.
Justus4, that's right! That is why the mother was blowing kisses to her son on the tv news coverage the other day. She may want him to think she is still on his side. This ought to be very interesting.
This is going to be a very interesting trial in the end. If I were in the son's shoes, I think I would start singing like an American Idol. Unless,,,HMMMMM!!!!
There is no justice unless both of them die. They need to take the mom to view her son's execution and then give her a few days to think about it before they do her. There should not be any chance these two will ever be someone's "neighbor" again.
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