Summary Of Julie Schenecker's Trial
Julie Schenecker 's Trial
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Introduction
Julie Schenecker, a 53 year old woman, retired Army Russian Linguist and Interrogator, married to Army Col. Parker Schenecker was arrested January 27, 2011 for shooting and killing her two children, Beau,13, and Calyx, 16 in Tampa Fl. She is standing trial on April 28, 2014 for both counts of first-degree murder in Hillsborough County, Florida.
Proceedings
The defendant Julie Schenecker was born January 13, 1961 was 50 years of age when she was arrested for the murders of victims Beau and Calyx. Circuit Judge Emmett Lamar Battles will oversee the State v. Schenecker trial. Prosecutor James Jay Pruner, …show more content…
She began by explaining that Julie Schenecker sent an email to her mother that made her mother feel uneasy and want to call the police. The Assistant public defender explained that the police would be testifying to the events that happened January 2011. When the police arrived they knocked on the door and no one answered so they looked in through the window to see Schenecker laying outside on the back patio. She notes that the police explain the defendant looked as though she had been sleeping for a very long time and that it was a very cool January morning. To cool for her to be sleeping outside in her robe. That investigation quickly turned from a welfare check into a homicide investigation. Ms. Spradley attempted to paint a picture of the events that happened that day to be one of a loving mother who was mentally unstable. She explained that when the police found Schenecker and woke her to question her that Schenecker was unstable and had to be held up while sitting on the couch. She explained that when the police asked her where her children were Schenecker told them that she tucked her daughter in bed and that she tried to pick her son up and put him in her bed, because thats where he slept the soundest when his father was away, but she could not move him so she left him in the vehicle and tucked a blanket around him. Ms. Spradley attempts to make Schenecker seem like an all …show more content…
Julie Schenecker was right when she said that she “did the worst thing that she had ever done”. I have no doubt that Schenecker has a severe mental illness however, I feel that she was aware of what she was doing and that it was wrong. I have only witnessed the opening statements but from what I have personally witnessed I feel that she had been planning on committing the act of killing her children in addition to committing suicide. She knew that what she was doing was wrong and that it would hurt a great number of people but she was so tired of feeling the sadness that she had felt for so long that she decided to end her life. She was angry with her husband for wanting to divorce her and angry with her children for being disrespectful. I asses that Julie Schenecker wanted to end her pain in addition to seeking revenge on both her husband and children by ending her children 's lives as well as her
Liberty University
Introduction
Julie Schenecker, a 53 year old woman, retired Army Russian Linguist and Interrogator, married to Army Col. Parker Schenecker was arrested January 27, 2011 for shooting and killing her two children, Beau,13, and Calyx, 16 in Tampa Fl. She is standing trial on April 28, 2014 for both counts of first-degree murder in Hillsborough County, Florida.
Proceedings
The defendant Julie Schenecker was born January 13, 1961 was 50 years of age when she was arrested for the murders of victims Beau and Calyx. Circuit Judge Emmett Lamar Battles will oversee the State v. Schenecker trial. Prosecutor James Jay Pruner, …show more content…
She began by explaining that Julie Schenecker sent an email to her mother that made her mother feel uneasy and want to call the police. The Assistant public defender explained that the police would be testifying to the events that happened January 2011. When the police arrived they knocked on the door and no one answered so they looked in through the window to see Schenecker laying outside on the back patio. She notes that the police explain the defendant looked as though she had been sleeping for a very long time and that it was a very cool January morning. To cool for her to be sleeping outside in her robe. That investigation quickly turned from a welfare check into a homicide investigation. Ms. Spradley attempted to paint a picture of the events that happened that day to be one of a loving mother who was mentally unstable. She explained that when the police found Schenecker and woke her to question her that Schenecker was unstable and had to be held up while sitting on the couch. She explained that when the police asked her where her children were Schenecker told them that she tucked her daughter in bed and that she tried to pick her son up and put him in her bed, because thats where he slept the soundest when his father was away, but she could not move him so she left him in the vehicle and tucked a blanket around him. Ms. Spradley attempts to make Schenecker seem like an all …show more content…
Julie Schenecker was right when she said that she “did the worst thing that she had ever done”. I have no doubt that Schenecker has a severe mental illness however, I feel that she was aware of what she was doing and that it was wrong. I have only witnessed the opening statements but from what I have personally witnessed I feel that she had been planning on committing the act of killing her children in addition to committing suicide. She knew that what she was doing was wrong and that it would hurt a great number of people but she was so tired of feeling the sadness that she had felt for so long that she decided to end her life. She was angry with her husband for wanting to divorce her and angry with her children for being disrespectful. I asses that Julie Schenecker wanted to end her pain in addition to seeking revenge on both her husband and children by ending her children 's lives as well as her