GUILTY IN - Erin Justin, 36, Noble County, June 2011

[BeginnersLuck]

I wanted to post the statement from your link twall:

http://journalgazette.com/article/20140327/LOCAL03/303279984

Indiana law allows the prosecution of murder cases to be handled in the locations where either the injury or death occurred or where the body was discovered, Clouse said.

This is something new that I have now learned.

I agree with you that the posting of details of her life was completely inappropriate and unnecessary.

It doesn't sound like the FWPD had much if any involvement in the investigation so I am glad to see that the prosecution will be handled there. Hands are pretty full here and they may have more time to allocate to this case in you county and justice may be served sooner and possibly stricter. You would be know better than I on how things are handled there.

Since they have witness statements, I don't think they will have a problem getting a conviction. Keep us informed if it does go to trial and you attend!

 

[BeginnersLuck]

http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/h...omicide-Probe-253439181.html?llsms=778001&c=y

Three friends of murder victim Erin Justin spoke with us Tuesday about the relief they felt last week, in learning of the arrests of two brothers in the two and a half year old unsolved crime.

video at link

 

[twall]

Noble judge: Allen County should try case of body found in lake

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20140430/LOCAL03/140439943/0/SEARCH

 

[twall]

Murder case likely headed to Allen court

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20140501/LOCAL03/305019971/0/SEARCH

 

[BeginnersLuck]

Well, I don't know what to say about the transfer to Allen County.

From the JG article I can kind of get a feel for where his attorney is going to go with this. Maybe I will try to attend.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20140621/LOCAL03/306219976/1002/LOCAL

Arguing that their client will suffer if the case winds its way through the appellate court, Andres Gonzalez’s court-appointed attorneys asked the state’s second-highest court not to take the case.

In early May, Noble County Prosecutor Steve Clouse gained Noble Superior Court Judge Robert Kirsch’s permission to ask the appellate court to review Kirsch’s decision to transfer the case to Allen County...

In the response to Clouse’s motion for an interlocutory appeal – one that is allowed while the case is still ongoing – Noble County Deputy Public Defender Kathryn Byrom argued continued delays in the case will greatly harm Andres Gonzalez, who remains in the Noble County jail.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/n...-In-2011-Murder-Of-Erin-Justin-271409401.html

A Fort Wayne man has pleaded guilty for his role in the 2011 murder of 36-year-old Erin Justin.

Victor Gonzalez pleaded guilty to the charge of assisting a criminal and removing a body from the scene.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/...an-gets-16-years-in-womans-2011-death-dumping

A judge has sentenced a Fort Wayne man to 16 years in prison after he admitted to killing a woman whose body was dumped in a northeastern Indiana lake.

Thirty-six-year-old Andres Gonzalez Jr. learned his sentence Tuesday after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the 2011 death of 36-year-old Erin Justin.