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GUILTY CA - Todd Chance, 45, murdered, Bakersfield, 25 Aug 2013 *wife arrested*
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I just learned about this case after it was featured on Dateline last Friday.
From the link above I also learned the judge issued a gag
order Feb 2019 preventing the attorneys from commenting on the case.
The trial was first scheduled to begin Feb 25, 2019 but was postponed several times. Reportedly, LC had been in custody since December 2016.
If not for CA courts, I would not believe she was held in jail for 3 years before her case finally went to trial in Dec 2019!
ETA: At least one delay was the result of a mistrial on June 28, 2019 when LC's initial trial of late May had a set back when her then attorney (Paul Cadman) declared he had a conflict of interest with his client and had to withdraw.
Murder trial for former elementary school principal rescheduled for October
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Murder trial for former elementary school principal rescheduled for October
July 9, 2019
Chance was charged in the murder of her husband, Todd Chance, 45, on Aug. 25, 2013. If convicted, she could face life in prison.
Prosecutors say the couple drove that morning to the area of Noriega Road near Enos Lane, where Chance is alleged to have shot and killed her husband. Prosecutors say she abandoned the car in a nearby neighborhood and returned home by taxi and on foot.
Chance was first arrested days after her husband's body was found, but was released days later when prosecutors requested further inquiry from investigators with the Kern County Sheriff's Office. She was arrested again in December 2016.
Chance, who was principal at Fairview Elementary School during the time of the shooting, was expected to receive around $250,000 from her husband's life insurance policies, according to court documents.
July 9, 2019
Chance was charged in the murder of her husband, Todd Chance, 45, on Aug. 25, 2013. If convicted, she could face life in prison.
Prosecutors say the couple drove that morning to the area of Noriega Road near Enos Lane, where Chance is alleged to have shot and killed her husband. Prosecutors say she abandoned the car in a nearby neighborhood and returned home by taxi and on foot.
Chance was first arrested days after her husband's body was found, but was released days later when prosecutors requested further inquiry from investigators with the Kern County Sheriff's Office. She was arrested again in December 2016.
Chance, who was principal at Fairview Elementary School during the time of the shooting, was expected to receive around $250,000 from her husband's life insurance policies, according to court documents.
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Judge orders records to be turned over to defense in Leslie Chance case
Sept 18, 2019
A motion to release records to the defense in the Leslie Chance murder trial was granted by a Kern County Superior Court Judge Maral Injejikian Wednesday morning.
The records could prove helpful to the defense's argument in Chance's upcoming trial in October, according to Tony Lidgett, Chance's court-appointed attorney. He could not specifically discuss what the records were, as there is a gag order in the case.
Deputy District Attorney Art Norris did not object to Lidgett receiving the records.
ETA: I believe the records turned over to the defense was an investigator's taped interview of a co-worker that indicated she could not be certain the suspect depicted in Walmart surveillance was LC.
Sept 18, 2019
A motion to release records to the defense in the Leslie Chance murder trial was granted by a Kern County Superior Court Judge Maral Injejikian Wednesday morning.
The records could prove helpful to the defense's argument in Chance's upcoming trial in October, according to Tony Lidgett, Chance's court-appointed attorney. He could not specifically discuss what the records were, as there is a gag order in the case.
Deputy District Attorney Art Norris did not object to Lidgett receiving the records.
ETA: I believe the records turned over to the defense was an investigator's taped interview of a co-worker that indicated she could not be certain the suspect depicted in Walmart surveillance was LC.
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Trial for Leslie Chance, accused of killing her husband, expected to last at least 4 months
Oct 15, 2019
The trial for the former elementary school principal accused of murdering her husband and leaving his body in an orchard in 2013 is expected to last at least four months.
Leslie Chance, 52, appeared in court Wednesday morning for a readiness hearing for a new murder trial after her first ended in a mistrial June 28. Tony Lidgett, Chance's attorney, and Deputy District Attorney Art Norris discussed the schedule for Chance's trial in detail during the hearing.
Norris said he expected the trial to last as long as six months, while Lidgett argued for four months, adding that the defense's argument was only expected to last about a week to a week and a half.
Chance's readiness hearing was continued until Oct 21. That hearing will determine when her trial will be scheduled to begin.
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I still can't believe the state and defense both expected the trial to last 4 - 6 months!
Oct 15, 2019
The trial for the former elementary school principal accused of murdering her husband and leaving his body in an orchard in 2013 is expected to last at least four months.
Leslie Chance, 52, appeared in court Wednesday morning for a readiness hearing for a new murder trial after her first ended in a mistrial June 28. Tony Lidgett, Chance's attorney, and Deputy District Attorney Art Norris discussed the schedule for Chance's trial in detail during the hearing.
Norris said he expected the trial to last as long as six months, while Lidgett argued for four months, adding that the defense's argument was only expected to last about a week to a week and a half.
Chance's readiness hearing was continued until Oct 21. That hearing will determine when her trial will be scheduled to begin.
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I still can't believe the state and defense both expected the trial to last 4 - 6 months!
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Prosecutor suggests other relationship as a motive as defense questions evidence in opening statements of Chance trial
Dec 10, 2019
Former schoolteacher and elementary school principal Leslie Jenea Chance “prepared an involved and detailed lesson plan on how to murder her husband,” the lead prosecutor told jurors Monday during opening statements in Chance’s trial on a charge of murdering her husband.
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The violent death shocked those who knew Todd Chance, a truck driver and beloved father, but equally startling was the eventual arrest of his wife, a well-respected teacher turned school administrator, on suspicion of perpetrating the crime. After a mistrial was declared after a brief start earlier this year, the second trial is finally underway.
In opening statements, Assistant District Attorney Andrea Kohler argued that after killing Todd Chance and leaving his car in a neighborhood, Leslie Chance took a suspiciously circuitous route home, going between various stores on foot and by taxi, and changing her clothing along the way before returning to the couple’s home.
Despite a life insurance policy the couple had, Kohler alleged money was not the motive. Instead, jurors would hear how Todd Chance, 45 at the time of his death, was engaged in a romantic relationship by text with his high school sweetheart and had received sexual photos from her on his phone, Kohler said.
Despite Leslie Chance’s known aversion to guns, Kohler said, weeks before Todd Chance’s murder, Leslie Chance, then 46, took a sudden interest in attending shooting practice with the rest of the family, who were longtime gun enthusiasts. Leslie Chance also made a practice run of the route she planned to take home after the murder, Kohler said, indicating video showed her scoping out pay phones at Walmart earlier that month.
Tony V. Lidgett, Leslie Chance’s attorney, used his turn before the jury to cast doubt on the prosecution’s evidence, specifically a patchwork of surveillance videos, many of which do not provide clear images of the subject in them.
Leslie Chance takes witness stand as testimony winds down in her murder trial
Jan 14, 2020
For the first time since the trial began more than a month ago, jurors heard directly from Leslie Jenea Chance, the woman accused of murdering her husband, injecting a burst of emotion into the courtroom Tuesday that has been relatively void of it so far in three weeks of witness testimony and presentation of evidence, much of which consists of grainy, silent surveillance footage.
In her daylong testimony, Chance, a former elementary school principal, smiled at photos of her family on vacation, denied killing her husband and cried out when a prosecutor presented her with the gun allegedly used to kill her husband.
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Kohler then showed a photo of Leslie Chance weeks before Todd Chance's murder holding the gun and shooting it, even though she never had an interest in shooting guns with her family and testified to never being "fond of guns."
Kohler also grilled Leslie Chance about her previous marriage, which ended in divorce after her husband left her for another woman while she was pregnant with their child.
Did she agree that if she divorced Todd Chance she'd be once again in a bad situation, Kohler asked, having to pay him support and part of her retirement savings since she made more money than he did as a truck driver.
"But don’t you agree you trusted this man to love you and not cheat on you like the last one?" Kohler asked.
Leslie Chance denied ever considering a divorce situation with Todd Chance but also said "I rebuilt before, I would rebuild again."
When questioned by her own attorney earlier in the day about the morning of her husband's murder, Chance said she woke up first and then Todd Chance came downstairs a bit later and prepared to go to a gun show he had planned to attend with his father. Leslie Chance said she remembered her husband didn't have any coffee that morning, which was unusual for him. But he told her he was in a hurry because his dad was waiting for him, she said.
That was the last time she saw him, she said.
Prosecutor describes detailed murder plan in closing arguments in Leslie Chance trial
Jan 21, 2020
In closing arguments that lasted nearly three hours, prosecutor Art Norris described in detail how he alleges Chance drove with her husband Todd Chance to an orchard near Enos Lane that morning, shot him and left his body there. She then drove his car to a southwest Bakersfield neighborhood and left it in front of a drug house, hoping someone would steal it, Norris argued.
The car was left unlocked, with a key in it and a gun, the murder weapon, visible on the floor of the passenger’s side, he said, adding it was "a baited trap for some poor schmuck to think he just won the lottery.” It was, the prosecutor said, all part of Leslie Chance's meticulous plan to kill her husband and get away with it.
"The evidence has shown that the defendant formulated a plan to kill Todd and make it look like someone else did it — so planning to commit a murder and get away with it," Norris said.
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The plan to murder was “impressive” and informed by techniques gleaned at a CSI exhibit Chance, her husband and two daughters had visited earlier that summer in Las Vegas, the prosecution argued.
She wiped the car with bleach to eliminate DNA and fingerprints and she changed her shoes, Norris alleged, which were all techniques touched on in the CSI exhibit about crime solving. He pointed to surveillance footage from inside a Starbucks that allegedly showed Chance disguised in a hat and sunglasses carrying a bag with a cylindrical container of bleach wipes. Norris cited testimony from experts who talked about how unusually little DNA and fingerprints were found on Todd Chance’s vehicle, a beloved and well-cared-for Ford Mustang that should have been loaded with such imprints.
Lidgett, who began his closing arguments with under an hour left in the day, attacked the assumptions on which he said the prosecution built its case. Chance had no knowledge of her husband’s reconnection with an old girlfriend, and she did not have any motive for cashing in on their life insurance.
“She had a great job. She was a principal making six figures,” he said.
To cast further doubt on the prosecution’s theory, Lidgett pointed to certain evidence in the case that raised unanswered questions. Todd Chance had announced he was going for a drive in his sports car the day before his death. But when his daughter Samantha asked to go along, he said no, according to witness testimony. And when she asked to go with him to a gun show the next morning, he also said no.
"This is something she and her dad loved to do," Lidgett said. "So why is Todd not letting his daughter go with him on a cruise or to a gun show?"
Juror dismissed in Leslie Chance trial
Jan 28, 2020
Jury deliberations will restart in the Leslie Chance murder
trial after a juror was dismissed Monday due to "hardship" and replaced with an alternate juror, according to Kristin Davis, public information officer for Kern County Superior Court.
https://www.bakersfield.com/news/le...rst-degree-murder/article_4aa64148-4397-11ea-
9c1c-930626e9c543.html
Jan 31, 2020
Leslie Jenea Chance, a former elementary school principal, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2013 killing of her husband Todd Chance on Thursday in Kern County Superior Court.
The verdict capped a four-and-a-half-week trial in which the prosecution set out to prove Chance, 53, shot her husband the morning of Aug. 25, 2013 because of a texting tryst he had carried on with a former girlfriend. She planned the murder for weeks beforehand, the prosecution said, using information learned at a CSI exhibit in Las Vegas to cover her tracks and make it look like someone else killed Todd Chance, who was 45 at the time.
She is likely to face 50 years to life in prison when she is sentenced in March, said Deputy District Attorney Art Norris, because the jury also found she used a firearm in the commission of a crime. The jury, however, did not find she killed her husband for financial gain.
Dec 10, 2019
Former schoolteacher and elementary school principal Leslie Jenea Chance “prepared an involved and detailed lesson plan on how to murder her husband,” the lead prosecutor told jurors Monday during opening statements in Chance’s trial on a charge of murdering her husband.
[..]
The violent death shocked those who knew Todd Chance, a truck driver and beloved father, but equally startling was the eventual arrest of his wife, a well-respected teacher turned school administrator, on suspicion of perpetrating the crime. After a mistrial was declared after a brief start earlier this year, the second trial is finally underway.
In opening statements, Assistant District Attorney Andrea Kohler argued that after killing Todd Chance and leaving his car in a neighborhood, Leslie Chance took a suspiciously circuitous route home, going between various stores on foot and by taxi, and changing her clothing along the way before returning to the couple’s home.
Despite a life insurance policy the couple had, Kohler alleged money was not the motive. Instead, jurors would hear how Todd Chance, 45 at the time of his death, was engaged in a romantic relationship by text with his high school sweetheart and had received sexual photos from her on his phone, Kohler said.
Despite Leslie Chance’s known aversion to guns, Kohler said, weeks before Todd Chance’s murder, Leslie Chance, then 46, took a sudden interest in attending shooting practice with the rest of the family, who were longtime gun enthusiasts. Leslie Chance also made a practice run of the route she planned to take home after the murder, Kohler said, indicating video showed her scoping out pay phones at Walmart earlier that month.
Tony V. Lidgett, Leslie Chance’s attorney, used his turn before the jury to cast doubt on the prosecution’s evidence, specifically a patchwork of surveillance videos, many of which do not provide clear images of the subject in them.
Leslie Chance takes witness stand as testimony winds down in her murder trial
Jan 14, 2020
For the first time since the trial began more than a month ago, jurors heard directly from Leslie Jenea Chance, the woman accused of murdering her husband, injecting a burst of emotion into the courtroom Tuesday that has been relatively void of it so far in three weeks of witness testimony and presentation of evidence, much of which consists of grainy, silent surveillance footage.
In her daylong testimony, Chance, a former elementary school principal, smiled at photos of her family on vacation, denied killing her husband and cried out when a prosecutor presented her with the gun allegedly used to kill her husband.
[..]
Kohler then showed a photo of Leslie Chance weeks before Todd Chance's murder holding the gun and shooting it, even though she never had an interest in shooting guns with her family and testified to never being "fond of guns."
Kohler also grilled Leslie Chance about her previous marriage, which ended in divorce after her husband left her for another woman while she was pregnant with their child.
Did she agree that if she divorced Todd Chance she'd be once again in a bad situation, Kohler asked, having to pay him support and part of her retirement savings since she made more money than he did as a truck driver.
"But don’t you agree you trusted this man to love you and not cheat on you like the last one?" Kohler asked.
Leslie Chance denied ever considering a divorce situation with Todd Chance but also said "I rebuilt before, I would rebuild again."
When questioned by her own attorney earlier in the day about the morning of her husband's murder, Chance said she woke up first and then Todd Chance came downstairs a bit later and prepared to go to a gun show he had planned to attend with his father. Leslie Chance said she remembered her husband didn't have any coffee that morning, which was unusual for him. But he told her he was in a hurry because his dad was waiting for him, she said.
That was the last time she saw him, she said.
Prosecutor describes detailed murder plan in closing arguments in Leslie Chance trial
Jan 21, 2020
In closing arguments that lasted nearly three hours, prosecutor Art Norris described in detail how he alleges Chance drove with her husband Todd Chance to an orchard near Enos Lane that morning, shot him and left his body there. She then drove his car to a southwest Bakersfield neighborhood and left it in front of a drug house, hoping someone would steal it, Norris argued.
The car was left unlocked, with a key in it and a gun, the murder weapon, visible on the floor of the passenger’s side, he said, adding it was "a baited trap for some poor schmuck to think he just won the lottery.” It was, the prosecutor said, all part of Leslie Chance's meticulous plan to kill her husband and get away with it.
"The evidence has shown that the defendant formulated a plan to kill Todd and make it look like someone else did it — so planning to commit a murder and get away with it," Norris said.
[..]
The plan to murder was “impressive” and informed by techniques gleaned at a CSI exhibit Chance, her husband and two daughters had visited earlier that summer in Las Vegas, the prosecution argued.
She wiped the car with bleach to eliminate DNA and fingerprints and she changed her shoes, Norris alleged, which were all techniques touched on in the CSI exhibit about crime solving. He pointed to surveillance footage from inside a Starbucks that allegedly showed Chance disguised in a hat and sunglasses carrying a bag with a cylindrical container of bleach wipes. Norris cited testimony from experts who talked about how unusually little DNA and fingerprints were found on Todd Chance’s vehicle, a beloved and well-cared-for Ford Mustang that should have been loaded with such imprints.
Lidgett, who began his closing arguments with under an hour left in the day, attacked the assumptions on which he said the prosecution built its case. Chance had no knowledge of her husband’s reconnection with an old girlfriend, and she did not have any motive for cashing in on their life insurance.
“She had a great job. She was a principal making six figures,” he said.
To cast further doubt on the prosecution’s theory, Lidgett pointed to certain evidence in the case that raised unanswered questions. Todd Chance had announced he was going for a drive in his sports car the day before his death. But when his daughter Samantha asked to go along, he said no, according to witness testimony. And when she asked to go with him to a gun show the next morning, he also said no.
"This is something she and her dad loved to do," Lidgett said. "So why is Todd not letting his daughter go with him on a cruise or to a gun show?"
Juror dismissed in Leslie Chance trial
Jan 28, 2020
Jury deliberations will restart in the Leslie Chance murder
trial after a juror was dismissed Monday due to "hardship" and replaced with an alternate juror, according to Kristin Davis, public information officer for Kern County Superior Court.
https://www.bakersfield.com/news/le...rst-degree-murder/article_4aa64148-4397-11ea-
9c1c-930626e9c543.html
Jan 31, 2020
Leslie Jenea Chance, a former elementary school principal, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2013 killing of her husband Todd Chance on Thursday in Kern County Superior Court.
The verdict capped a four-and-a-half-week trial in which the prosecution set out to prove Chance, 53, shot her husband the morning of Aug. 25, 2013 because of a texting tryst he had carried on with a former girlfriend. She planned the murder for weeks beforehand, the prosecution said, using information learned at a CSI exhibit in Las Vegas to cover her tracks and make it look like someone else killed Todd Chance, who was 45 at the time.
She is likely to face 50 years to life in prison when she is sentenced in March, said Deputy District Attorney Art Norris, because the jury also found she used a firearm in the commission of a crime. The jury, however, did not find she killed her husband for financial gain.
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Defense attorney alleges possible juror misconduct in Leslie Chance murder trial
March 10, 2020
The attorney for an elementary school principal convicted of murder in January is asking the judge in the case to postpone her sentencing in order to investigate possible juror misconduct and whether to request a new trial.
Leslie Chance, 53, was convicted last month of murdering her husband, Todd Chance, in 2013.
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In the motion filed Feb. 27, Chance's attorney, Tony Lidgett, said he was contacted by the jury foreperson the day after Chance was convicted. The juror told him one juror had deliberated while not with the rest of the jury, and another had read over the court reporter's shoulder about discussions held outside the presence of the jury, Lidgett wrote in the motion. The foreperson also told him there was bullying by some jurors and those same jurors refused to discuss the law regarding reasonable doubt, Lidgett wrote.
Lidgett requested another month to further investigate and prepare paperwork.
March 10, 2020
The attorney for an elementary school principal convicted of murder in January is asking the judge in the case to postpone her sentencing in order to investigate possible juror misconduct and whether to request a new trial.
Leslie Chance, 53, was convicted last month of murdering her husband, Todd Chance, in 2013.
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In the motion filed Feb. 27, Chance's attorney, Tony Lidgett, said he was contacted by the jury foreperson the day after Chance was convicted. The juror told him one juror had deliberated while not with the rest of the jury, and another had read over the court reporter's shoulder about discussions held outside the presence of the jury, Lidgett wrote in the motion. The foreperson also told him there was bullying by some jurors and those same jurors refused to discuss the law regarding reasonable doubt, Lidgett wrote.
Lidgett requested another month to further investigate and prepare paperwork.
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Judge rejects new trial request for school principal convicted of murdering husband
Aug 26, 2020
A Kern County Superior Court judge has rejected a request for a new trial for former elementary school principal Leslie Chance, who was convicted earlier this year of murdering her husband, Todd Chance, in 2013.
Judge Charles Brehmer ruled against three motions filed by Leslie Chance's attorney, Tony Lidgett, alleging juror misconduct.
In a motion filed Feb. 27, Lidgett said he was contacted by the jury foreperson the day after Leslie Chance was convicted. The jury foreperson reported inappropriate actions by other jurors.
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Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 16.
Aug 26, 2020
A Kern County Superior Court judge has rejected a request for a new trial for former elementary school principal Leslie Chance, who was convicted earlier this year of murdering her husband, Todd Chance, in 2013.
Judge Charles Brehmer ruled against three motions filed by Leslie Chance's attorney, Tony Lidgett, alleging juror misconduct.
In a motion filed Feb. 27, Lidgett said he was contacted by the jury foreperson the day after Leslie Chance was convicted. The jury foreperson reported inappropriate actions by other jurors.
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Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 16.
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After viewing the evidence presented at trial, it seems that LC simply wanted her husband gone and believed she could get away with his murder.
I don't think LC wanted to be subject to division of property including her retirement, and alimony possibly due her husband if she divorced him.
There was only evidence of a texting relationship that the victim initiated with his high school gf but I suspect there may have been other affairs and LC was tired of being humiliated. I think LC suspected her husband had plans other than attending the gun show on the date that she killed him.
LC seemed convinced that her daughters would be OK without their father. That's pretty cold....
I agree with the jury that there was no murder for financial gain given the age and amount of the basic life policies.
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I don't think LC wanted to be subject to division of property including her retirement, and alimony possibly due her husband if she divorced him.
There was only evidence of a texting relationship that the victim initiated with his high school gf but I suspect there may have been other affairs and LC was tired of being humiliated. I think LC suspected her husband had plans other than attending the gun show on the date that she killed him.
LC seemed convinced that her daughters would be OK without their father. That's pretty cold....
I agree with the jury that there was no murder for financial gain given the age and amount of the basic life policies.
MOO
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To answer my own question...Yes, she was.
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Appeals court upholds Leslie Chance murder conviction
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The 5th District Court of Appeal has upheld the murder conviction of former school principal Leslie Chance, finding law enforcement’s failure to turn over s…
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The 5th District Court of Appeal has upheld the murder conviction of former school principal Leslie Chance, finding law enforcement’s failure to turn over several interviews to defense counsel non-prejudicial.
Chance, 56, will continue to serve 50 years to life in prison in the death of her husband. The court’s opinion was filed Friday.
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Leslie Chance was principal of Fairview Elementary School at the time of the shooting.
Her attorney, Tony Lidgett, argued at trial the case against her was built on unreliable, circumstantial evidence, and she had nothing to do with her husband’s death.
It came to light at trial that Kavin Brewer, the lead detective on the case, failed to disclose to attorneys or log into evidence multiple interviews conducted in 2013. At least two of the interviews featured witnesses who told detectives they could not identify Chance in surveillance footage.
Appellate justices found the outcome of the trial would not have been different if the interviews had been provided to the defense.
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Rewatched the Dateline episode -- I'd missed this "self-education" bit!
Glad the Appellate Court saw the conviction as true. In Leslie Chance's own words, she could have rebuilt again -- murder was a bad choice.