GUILTY NH - Kelly Robarge, 42, Charlestown, 27 Jun 2013

[OkieGranny]

http://www.wmur.com/news/defense-rests-in-robarge-murder-trial/31134126

Testimony has wrapped up in the murder trial of a Vermont man prosecutors say killed his estranged wife the day she filed for divorce in New Hampshire... Jurors are scheduled to hear closing arguments and instructions on the law Monday and begin deliberating Robarge's fate...

In testimony spanning two days, James Robarge showed no emotion as he repeatedly denied ever threatening his wife, contrary to the assertions of prosecution witnesses...

Robarge disputed cell phone records that place him at the Charlestown home from around 11 a.m. until about 4 p.m. "Your cell phone was certainly there," prosecutor Susan Morrell insisted, during cross-examination Friday. "No it wasn't," Robarge countered, but acknowledged he had his cell phone with him all that day.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.wmur.com/news/closing-arguments-underway-in-trial-of-man-accused-of-killing-wife/31172050

The Sullivan County Superior Court jury, seven women and five men, went home Monday afternoon without reaching a verdict after about two hours of deliberations. They're set to return to court Tuesday. Robarge is charged with first- and second-degree murder.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://lancasteronline.com/news/nat...cle_9c4333cc-b075-56a2-b830-5660e4c1f054.html

A Vermont man was convicted Wednesday of beating his wife to death hours after she filed divorce papers and dumping her body off a remote logging road in the woods...

Robarge, of Saxtons River, Vermont, faces up to life in prison with the chance of parole. The jury rejected a first-degree murder charge but found him guilty of second-degree murder for reckless conduct that showed "extreme indifference to the value of human life."

The judge said sentencing will likely be in April.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/...cle_c0f7f12b-173f-5cfd-b6d3-e90f73826728.html

Metal from a punctured oil pan that tied James Robarge’s car to the wooded spot in Unity where his estranged wife’s body was found proved to be a critical piece of evidence in his second-degree murder conviction, a juror in the case said Thursday.

Jessica Palmer said she and fellow jurors felt comfortable that cellphone records showed James Robarge had gone to the Charlestown home he had built with his wife of 24 years, Kelly Robarge, on the morning of June 27, 2013, the day she filed for divorce...

She said the jury rejected the first-degree murder charge against Robarge because prosecutors hadn’t proven Robarge intended to kill his wife when he went to their Charlestown home.

 

[OkieGranny]

Sentencing tomorrow morning at 9:00.

http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/...cle_6335329f-75c1-5177-a465-5fc5ceb38065.html

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.thepublicopinion.com/new...cle_47af9688-b1db-54b7-811c-d005c6e46607.html

A man convicted of beating his wife to death hours after she filed for divorce was sentenced Friday to 30 years to life in prison, shortly after his lawyer read a statement about how much he loved his wife.

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

I just happened to catch the last few minutes of an episode covering Kelly's murder on ID. Sadly the two daughters are divided when it comes to their father's guilt. You can see that there is a wedge between to the two girls. So sad.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Court upholds man's conviction in wife's death

http://www.concordmonitor.com/NH-Supreme-Court-Robarge-11619176

In his appeal, Robarge argued that cellphone records shouldn’t have been admitted as evidence of the couple’s location the day of the murder. He also objected to jurors being shown a photo of a “LOVE Kills Slowly” tattoo on his torso and being told he had threatened to kill his wife because her hair was too short.

The Supreme Court said Tuesday that even if the trial court made those mistakes, they were harmless, given the overwhelming evidence against Robarge.