GUILTY GUILTY OF ABUSE OF A CORPSE ONLY OH - Annabelle Richardson, newborn, found in grave 7 May 2017 #3

[Boodles]

Holy Toledo, that’s a fast verdict!!

 

[iluvmua]

Court TV still has verdict watch

 

[Hope4More]

Is the verdict livestreaming anywhere?

 

[fred&edna]

Link works for me -- you need to read entire article to understand legal sticking point with the way this charge is written /defined by the Ohio criminal code.

Well, for some odd reason the link took me to a sports news page. Maybe it's just me.

 

[Weki]

What the....?????? That was too fast. It could go either way!!

 

[osu]

Skylar Richardson abs defense team not yet in courtroom. @wlwt

Karin Johnson WLWT on Twitter

 

[osu]

Jury deliberation: 4 HOURS 25 MINS #SkylarRichardson #SkylarRichardsonTrial

Joey Vogt on Twitter

 

[osu]

RICHARDSON: Defense team is not in the courthouse yet - neither is #SkylarRichardson - we will bring you the verdict live on @WCPO when it happens

Evan Millward on Twitter

 

[proctorelites]

Just viewing I saw people coming back in but they switched to the chair. Must be Verdict In Law & CrimeWatch Live: Skylar Richardson Allegedly Killed Newborn Daughter Shortly After Prom

 

[Boodles]

Jury deliberation: 4 HOURS 25 MINS #SkylarRichardson #SkylarRichardsonTrial

Joey Vogt on Twitter

And that includes eating their lunch.

 

[Weki]

Is it just me or this whole not waiting around for the verdict act is a total power play? Now everyone has to wait for Queen Kim and her princess to arrive for the verdict reading....

 

[Chelly]

Early verdict usually means conviction. Anyone agree?

 

[Jewels53]

And Court TV takes a Break! UGG!

https://www.courttv.com/title/court-tv-live-stream-web/

 

[Jewels53]

Early verdict usually means conviction. Anyone agree?

I hope you are right Chelly.

 

[Hope4More]

Livestreaming on Law & Crime, for anyone not already glued to there or elsewhere.

 

[kim.kitchenstupman]

Early verdict usually means conviction. Anyone agree?

I am to scared to agree. I might jinx it.

 

[ReillyElizabeth]

Early verdict usually means conviction. Anyone agree?

It can go either way. It usually just means that there was not a lot of disagreement among the jurors.

 

[osu]

Defense team and Skylar Richardson have arrived at Warren Court of Common Pleas. Jury about to give verdict.

BJBethelWDTN on Twitter

(although I’m watching live and I don’t see them yet)

 

[dixiegirl1035]

Speculating, but I think this means they are trying to figure out if Skyler putting the baby in the backyard grave fits the legal definition of abuse of a corpse (whether she did in fact bury the baby has not been disputed). I think this means they don't believe she burned or "tried to cremate" the baby, which MAY also reflect that they are considering whether what she said in the police interrogations (the second one, in particular) was believable--because I think most reasonable people/jurors would agree that burning a baby's body with a lighter is abuse of a corpse.

Did the defense make so much of an issue that the burning was not true, that therefore they think that abuse of a corpse is not just burying it in the backyard and hiding it?

If so, major fail.

 

[Mandos]

I think it's going to be not guilty on the first three counts. Considering the issues raised by the defense that was way too fast to get a guilty verdict.