GUILTY FL - Carlie Brucia, 11, Sarasota, 1 February 2004

[Mel1024]

I am still new to posting and didn't know where to put this but does anyone know if they ever linked Joseph P Smith to Jennifer Odom. She was murder in Hernado county after getting off school bus. I know they were comparing them at one time. Has anyone ever heard anything on this?
http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/osi/unsolved/odom.asp

 

[Norma]

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/breaking_news/12812475.htm

A defense attorney wants to select two separate juries, one for trial and one for sentencing, to avoid biasing potential jurors against the man accused of slaying 11-year-old Carlie Brucia before they hear any evidence about the case, he said.

Assistant Public Defender Adam Tebrugge argued Monday that asking potential jurors whether they could recommend the death penalty if Smith was convicted might make them presume he is guilty.

 

[mysteriew]

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/breaking_news/12812475.htm

A defense attorney wants to select two separate juries, one for trial and one for sentencing, to avoid biasing potential jurors against the man accused of slaying 11-year-old Carlie Brucia before they hear any evidence about the case, he said.

Assistant Public Defender Adam Tebrugge argued Monday that asking potential jurors whether they could recommend the death penalty if Smith was convicted might make them presume he is guilty.

They will try anything won't they?

 

[j2mirish]

A defense attorney wants to select two separate juries, one for trial and one for sentencing, to avoid biasing potential jurors against the man accused of slaying 11-year-old Carlie Brucia before they hear any evidence about the case, he said.

Assistant Public Defender Adam Tebrugge argued Monday that asking potential jurors whether they could recommend the death penalty if Smith was convicted might make them presume he is guilty.

They will try anything won't they?

Scott Petersons attorney tried this in California and it was shot down- does anyone know if this is a common defense request, and if it is often granted?

 

[mysteriew]

The father of an 11-year-old girl who was abducted and killed is encouraging children to wear backpacks that come with an alarm.

Joe Brucia, the father of slain Carlie Brucia, is endorsing the backpack, which sets off an alarm for up to five hours once an emergency cord is pulled. The Carlie Security Backpack is being marketed by EDCO Innovations Inc. of Olympia Fields, Ill.

Joe Brucia told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune that when his daughter was abducted last year, "300 feet away there were four golfers with their backs to her." The abduction was captured by a car wash surveillance camera.
The father of an 11-year-old girl who was abducted and killed is encouraging children to wear backpacks that come with an alarm.

Joe Brucia, the father of slain Carlie Brucia, is endorsing the backpack, which sets off an alarm for up to five hours once an emergency cord is pulled. The Carlie Security Backpack is being marketed by EDCO Innovations Inc. of Olympia Fields, Ill.

Joe Brucia told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune that when his daughter was abducted last year, "300 feet away there were four golfers with their backs to her." The abduction was captured by a car wash surveillance camera.
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/...6/APN/510061333&cachetime=3&template=dateline

Note: There is also a thread in the Trials section on the trial of Joseph Smith.

 

[indigomood]

http://www.tampabays10.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=19752

Murder victim's father endorses new backpack

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) -- The father of an eleven-year-old Florida girl who was abducted and killed is encouraging children to wear
backpacks that come with an alarm.

Joe Brucia is the father of slain Carlie Brucia. He's endorsing the backpack, which sets off an alarm once an emergency cord is pulled.

The Carlie Security Backpack is being marketed by EDCO Innovations of Olympia Fields, Illinois.

Joe Brucia told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune that golfers were within 300 feet of his daughter but had their backs to her when she was abducted last year. The abduction was captured by a car wash surveillance camera.

 

[sharpar]

A defense attorney wants to select two separate juries, one for trial and one for sentencing, to avoid biasing potential jurors against the man accused of slaying 11-year-old Carlie Brucia before they hear any evidence about the case, he said.

Assistant Public Defender Adam Tebrugge argued Monday that asking potential jurors whether they could recommend the death penalty if Smith was convicted might make them presume he is guilty.




Scott Petersons attorney tried this in California and it was shot down- does anyone know if this is a common defense request, and if it is often granted?

I believe it is asked for fairly often but it is seldom granted. Judges need a much larger jury pool to pull from, the process takes much longer and it is much more expensive to the taxpayers. Judges have a great deal more faith in jurors than defense attorneys

 

[mysteriew]

I believe it is asked for fairly often but it is seldom granted. Judges need a much larger jury pool to pull from, the process takes much longer and it is much more expensive to the taxpayers. Judges have a great deal more faith in jurors than defense attorneys

LOL, defense attorneys just like to ask- for anything and everything.

 

[chicoliving]

Less than a month before the scheduled start of Joseph P. Smith's trial, his attorney is trying to persuade a judge to throw out the video captured by a car wash surveillance camera on Feb. 1, 2004, as well as a confession authorities say Smith gave to his brother in jail days later.

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/12876290.htm

 

[dolceaura]

Throw out the video and confession????? How can this man sleep at night !!! EVERYONE knows smith did this. Smith knows he did this. I have a family member in law enforcement and he said the real reason he was taken to manatee jail was for his safety, because some of Sarasotas "finest" inmates wanted to kill him. ( I wish they had been given the chance...) He also said that the car smith borrowed was pretty scuffed up from a very apparent violent struggle that had taken place there. Poor carlie fought to the end. Bless her precious little heart.

 

[indigomood]

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/12894984.htm

SARASOTA, Fla. - A judge on Thursday said that he wants to protect the identities of jurors who will hear next month's death penalty trial of the man charged in the kidnap-slaying of 11-year-old Carlie Brucia.

Circuit Judge Andrew Owens said he wants to keep the media from publishing the names or showing images of jurors in Joseph P. Smith's trial for fear they might be subject to "intimidation in the community" from people who feel strongly one way or the other about the death penalty.

 

[indigomood]

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/12897632.htm

SARASOTA - With the final scheduled motion hearing in the murder case of Joseph P. Smith complete, Circuit Judge Andrew D. Owens will now decide several consequential matters of law before the trial begins Nov. 7.

Attorneys in the case of the man accused of abducting, raping and killing 11-year-old Carlie Brucia in Sarasota in February 2004 argued their way through the remaining list of pre-trial motions Thursday to pave the way for the upcoming trial. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Oct. 24.

 

[mysteriew]

It was supposed to be a Halloween prank, Eldred "Ted" Walker said, a staged kidnapping of a child that was intended to make the Oil City Police Department look foolish.

But what he thought was a joke turned ominously serious, Mr. Walker testified yesterday. His two accomplices assaulted the 11-year-old girl they'd snatched off the street in Oil City, then threatened his son when he protested.

"I was scared," Mr. Walker testified in Venango County Common Pleas Court at the trial of brothers James and Timothy O'Brien in the kidnap-slaying of Shauna Howe, of Oil City, in 1992. "I didn't know what to do."

James O'Brien, 34, and Timothy O'Brien, 39, are charged with murder, rape, kidnapping and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse in her death.

Mr. Walker said he asked Shauna about Girl Scout cookies, then grabbed her shoulders and shoved her toward Timothy O'Brien. He did not say how he knew that Shauna, who was costumed as a gymnast, was a Scout.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05286/587800.stm

 

[mysteriew]

Prosecutors and defense attorneys argued more pretrial motions in front of Owens all day Thursday. The trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 7, but jury selection begins Oct. 24.

Assistant Public Defender Adam Tebrugge continued to argue against the confession prosecutors used to charge Smith. Tebrugge said police never heard the confession, and that it is hearsay because it came from Smith's brother, John.

John Smith has a criminal history and was angry at his brother over a stolen plumber's snake, Tebrugge said. Investigators ignored Joseph Smith's constitutional rights by having his brother talk him into telling him where to find Carlie's body.

John Smith's information about his brother's confession is "double hearsay from a convicted felon with a grudge," Tebrugge said.

Assistant State Attorney Debra Johnes Riva said it was Tebrugge and other public defenders, and not FBI agents, who arranged the meeting between Joseph Smith and his brother and mother at the Sarasota County jail.

Smith's mother, Patricia Davis, was the one who elicited his confession, not his brother, Riva said.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051014/NEWS/510140328/1006/SPORTS

 

[mysteriew]

Like everyone else who saw it replayed over and over on TV around the world, residents of this city shuddered when they saw the video images of a man taking 11-year-old Carlie Brucia by the arm in the back of a car wash nearly 21 months ago.

Now Sarasota's deepest wound will be torn open again when jury selection begins Tuesday in the trial of Joseph P. Smith, the man accused of kidnapping, raping and strangling the sixth grader on Super Bowl Sunday last year. The start was delayed a day because of Hurricane Wilma.
http://www.newscoast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051023/APN/510230593

 

[Jeana (DP)]

Jury selection to begin in case over Sarasota child's rape, murder

http://www.courttv.com/news/2005/1024/juryselection_ap.html


"The thing that brought this so close to home for all of us was the infamous video," the mayor said. "We could all see her and see what was unfolding, and none of us could do anything about it. I think that's what was so hard for all of us."

 

[mysteriew]

On Wednesday, day two of jury selection in the Carlie Brucia murder trial, 48 of 112 potential jurors moved to the second round of questioning, according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

They will join 45 others from the first day of initial questioning, Tuesday, to form a pool of potential jurors who said they could be fair to defendant Joseph P. Smith.

http://news.tbo.com/news/MGB6H04JAFE.html

 

[mysteriew]

Almost all the prospective jurors in the Carlie Brucia murder trial said Tuesday they already had seen a key piece of evidence: the car-wash surveillance videotape that captures her abduction.

But 45 of the 100 potential jurors said they could still be fair to defendant Joseph P. Smith, leaving prosecutors and Smith's attorney optimistic about finding a jury in Sarasota County.

Circuit Judge Andrew Owens dismissed 27 jurors who said they couldn't be fair because they already had strong opinions that Smith was guilty of abducting, raping and murdering Carlie.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051026/NEWS/510260381

 

[mysteriew]

Prospective juror 731 then told Circuit Judge Andrew Owens she could ignore those feelings and objectively consider the evidence if she were selected as a juror in Smith's trial.

The judge allowed her to remain in the jury pool.

Dozens of the 345 potential jurors Owens questioned last week are similar to juror 731 -- they have strong opinions about the case but say they can be fair.

They include a man who said he expected Smith to have "horns or something," another man who said he restricted his daughter from riding her bike after Carlie's abduction and a third who said if Smith is accused, "he probably did it."
http://www.newscoast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051030/NEWS/510300631

 

[mysteriew]

Circuit Judge Andrew D. Owens and attorneys involved in the trial of Joseph P. Smith returned to court today for the second week of jury selection.

Attorneys believe that the pool of 151 is large enough to find a jury of 12 - with six alternates - for the trial. The additional group identified today will be a safety net.
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/breaking_news/13043949.htm