GUILTY MT - Crystal Collins, 32, Bozeman, 1 Jan 2017 *Arrest*

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Bozeman police look for missing woman
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Bozeman police are asking for help locating a missing woman.
Crystal Collins was last seen between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. on New Year’s Eve, when she walked away from her home in the Mountain View Trailer Park on Huffine Lane.
http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/ktvm/bozeman-police-look-for-missing-woman-1/243772599
 
what a scum. said first he saw her slide off the road but still went on to pick up his children. glad they got him
 
http://www.abcfoxmontana.com/story/34336713/prosecution-considers-seeking-death-penalty-in-collins-murder-trial

Jake Collins pleaded not guilty to killing his wife Crystal Collins.

Court documents alleged that Jake Collins beat his wife to death with a frying pan during an argument on New Years Day.

But while in court Tuesday, the Bozeman denied killing his wife with what investigators said was a cast-iron frying pan.

As per Montana State Law deliberate homicide carries a wide sentence from 10 to 100 plus years which means, life in prison or in some cases death.

The big question surrounding this case is whether prosecution will seek the death penalty.

"We just received the coroners report Sunday night and there are other reports we are waiting for with regard to the autopsy. So we will need that information at least before we make a decision to proceed in addition we would want to get the families input on that as well. We need additional reports meeting with the attorney general that decision is off in the future," he said.
 
State not seeking death penalty against Bozeman man accused of killing wife

http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/crime/state-not-seeking-death-penalty-against-bozeman-man-accused-of/article_42bb0680-21f4-5b83-b398-1fcab96c9aad.html

During a scheduling hearing before District Judge Holly Brown on Tuesday, Gallatin County Attorney Marty Lambert said he is declining to seek the death penalty for 32-year-old Jake Collins, who is charged with deliberate homicide in the death of his wife Crystal Collins, 32.

Collins has pleaded not guilty to that charge as well as a felony tampering with evidence charge he’s facing in the case. He remains in the Gallatin County jail on $750,000 bail.

Lambert declined to comment on why he opted not to seek the death penalty. He did, however, say that he discussed the decision at length with Crystal’s family and received a “wide spectrum of responses, which is normal and understandable.”

Another scheduling hearing in the case is slated for April 18. No trial date has been set.
 
No trial date yet for Bozeman man accused of killing wife with frying pan

http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/crime/no-trial-date-yet-for-bozeman-man-accused-of-killing/article_381199a2-809e-55a7-909a-7d8e6e77b24a.html

A trial date has yet to be set for a Bozeman man accused of killing his wife on New Year’s after attorneys disagreed on how long the trial should last.

In the meantime, at a scheduling hearing Tuesday, Gallatin County District Court Judge Holly Brown set a July deadline for attorneys to file any pre-trial motions and a status conference for August.
 
Still no trial date for Bozeman man accused of killing wife

http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/crime/still-no-trial-date-for-bozeman-man-accused-of-killing/article_a1628266-08f6-576f-bc90-82a1d1af3bb4.html

Jackson told the judge that the defense intends to meet with Gallatin County Attorney Marty Lambert, who is prosecuting the case, and the defense’s expert witnesses in early October to discuss a possible resolution in the case.

Lambert wanted the judge to set a trial date, saying Tuesday that he was concerned by the amount of time that’s gone by without a trial date being set. However, he said he did not fault the defense.

Brown did not set a trial date Tuesday, instead opting to schedule another status conference for Nov. 7.
 
Two-week trial set for Bozeman man accused of killing wife

https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/crime/two-week-trial-set-for-bozeman-man-accused-of-killing/article_57756b01-8661-5ec2-b009-489abbe423ac.html

During a status hearing Tuesday, Gallatin County District Court Judge Holly Brown scheduled a two-week trial beginning Aug. 13 for Jake Collins, who is charged with deliberate homicide and felony tampering with evidence in the death of his wife Crystal, 32.

During the short hearing, Crystal’s mother Margie McGivern hung her head and cried. She and her family said they want justice for their daughter, and want to avoid a trial, especially because they worry the couple’s young children may be called to testify.

Avignone said that, while the trial date has been set for now, plea negotiations weren’t out of the picture.
 
State allowed to get psychological evaluation of man accused of killing wife

https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/crime/state-allowed-to-get-psychological-evaluation-of-man-accused-of/article—543f9077-63f7-5f5e-93d3-95a5890058a3.html

The defense team arranged for a psychiatric evaluation by Dr. William Stratford. In a report issued by Stratford last August, he wrote that Collins was not psychotic, doesn’t suffer from a mental disease or defect and is fully competent to stand trial.

However, Stratford concluded that Collins “was operating under extreme mental and emotional stress at the time due to an accumulation of unresolved factors, fueled by the ingestion of alcohol.”

Gallatin County Attorney Marty Lambert and Deputy Attorney Bjorn Boyer, who are prosecuting the case, then asked for a judge’s order allowing the state to use its own expert, Dr. Bowman Smelko, to evaluate Collins to rebut the defense’s expert at trial.

Last month, District Court Judge Holly Brown denied that request, ruling that the state doesn’t have any authority under which it’s allowed to get a psychological exam of Collins.

The state then filed its petition with the Montana Supreme Court, calling the ruling a “mistake of law causing a gross injustice.”

On Wednesday, justices issued a ruling reversing Brown’s order.

 
Man admits using frying pan to murder wife

During a hearing in Gallatin County District Court Judge Holly Brown’s courtroom, Jake Collins, 34, admitted to killing his wife Crystal Collins and trying to dispose of her body at the landfill. Collins also admitted that a weapons enhancement applied to the deliberate homicide charge because he used a frying pan.

Marty Lambert, county attorney, agreed that if Collins pleaded guilty he would recommend 100 years in prison for the deliberate homicide charge and two years in prison for the weapons enhancement. He agreed to recommend 10 years for tampering with evidence to be served simultaneously with the first charge, for a total of 102 years in prison.

Collins is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 15.​
 
A judge sentenced Collins to 105 years in the Montana State Prison for felony counts of deliberate homicide, tampering with evidence and a weapons enhancement for murdering his 32-year-old wife in their Bozeman home on New Year’s Day 2017.

Collins will have to serve nearly 26 years before he is eligible for parole.

Bozeman man sentenced to 105 years prison for murdering wife with frying pan
 

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