The purposes of sentencing are to protect the public from future crime from the offender and to punish the offender, Holdren said. I believe you would be hard-pressed to think of facts that are more heinous and egregious than what weve got here.
Jessicas sister, Dawn Berry, would give Taylors statement to the court.
Why did you do that?, said Dawn, uttering her mothers words. What you have done to my daughter, how can you live with yourself? How can you sleep at night knowing what you did? How can you sit there and say what you say when you dismembered my daughters body? You know how many lives you have affected.
What if someone did that to you, to your daughter, dismember their body? How would you feel about that?
Nothing I can say explains the outrageousness and stupidity of these acts, said defense counsel Ronald Janes. I can only remind the court that if the narrative is correct, although he misled law enforcement on July 29, 2016, within 48 hours later, Mr. Hurt, when confronted by West Virginia authorities admitted and accepted responsibility for his actions. That starts to say something positive about this senseless, stupid, irrational behavior.
