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Finally an article in goog alerts on this case! Looks like opening statements were only done Friday, so I will correct my notes.
Hopefully you all can see the picture of her in the article - those eyes!!
nypost.com
Jan. 26, 2024
A young veterinary technician was “crazy” and did not know right from wrong when she knifed her 70-year-old neighbor to death several years ago, the defendant’s attorney said in court – as he pursued an insanity defense in the gruesome case.
Attorney Jeremy Schneider declared “We are telling you, she did it” to jurors in his opening statement — as he tried to convince them to nevertheless find his client Anya Johnston, 29, not guilty because of insanity for the October 2018 slaying of advertising maven Sue Trott.
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Johnston is believed to have stabbed Trott with an “M48 cyclone” – a unique, twisted dagger, the court heard.
Schneider insisted that his client’s apparent guilt was due to her mental condition at the time of the heinous attack.
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Trott – a copywriter and advertising rep who previously worked for Levi’s and the Museum of Modern Art –was an “active and ambitious” person who was cruelly left to rot for almost four days before authorities finally found her remains, prosecutor Hannah Yu explained in her opening statement.
Yu also tried to push back on the notion that Johnston was insane.
“The defendant was never delusional and never hallucinating. She held down a job and interacted with customers and coworkers and performed her functions as a vet tech and receptionist,” Yu said.
“Anya Johnston is guilty of murder in the second degree, as she intended to kill Sue Trott and did kill Sue Trott,” she concluded.
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In Schneider’s opening statement, the court also heard about Johnston’s troubled upbringing.
Johnston was born four months prematurely, and spent the first two years and nine months of her life in a Russian orphanage “with 10 babies to one caregiver,” the lawyer described.
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After the opening argument, patrol cop, Aisha McCloud, who went to Trott’s apartment on Oct. 21 at 4 a.m., told jurors what she saw when she arrived.
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The jury later saw a troubling photograph of Trott’s neck, as well as a blurred image of her body and videos from inside the apartment.
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When shown the photo of Trott’s neck, the jury squirmed and looked away.
The prosecution was eventually reprimanded for introducing so many images of the victim’s apartment, with Judge Ruth Pickholz noting that “so much of this case is conceded.”
Hopefully you all can see the picture of her in the article - those eyes!!
Vet tech was ‘crazy’ when she knifed 70-year-old neighbor: defense attorney
Opening statements began Friday in the murder trial of Anya Johnston, 29, in connection with the gruesome killing of Sue Trott on Oct. 17, 2018.
nypost.com
Jan. 26, 2024
A young veterinary technician was “crazy” and did not know right from wrong when she knifed her 70-year-old neighbor to death several years ago, the defendant’s attorney said in court – as he pursued an insanity defense in the gruesome case.
Attorney Jeremy Schneider declared “We are telling you, she did it” to jurors in his opening statement — as he tried to convince them to nevertheless find his client Anya Johnston, 29, not guilty because of insanity for the October 2018 slaying of advertising maven Sue Trott.
[.....]
Johnston is believed to have stabbed Trott with an “M48 cyclone” – a unique, twisted dagger, the court heard.
Schneider insisted that his client’s apparent guilt was due to her mental condition at the time of the heinous attack.
[.....]
Trott – a copywriter and advertising rep who previously worked for Levi’s and the Museum of Modern Art –was an “active and ambitious” person who was cruelly left to rot for almost four days before authorities finally found her remains, prosecutor Hannah Yu explained in her opening statement.
Yu also tried to push back on the notion that Johnston was insane.
“The defendant was never delusional and never hallucinating. She held down a job and interacted with customers and coworkers and performed her functions as a vet tech and receptionist,” Yu said.
“Anya Johnston is guilty of murder in the second degree, as she intended to kill Sue Trott and did kill Sue Trott,” she concluded.
[.....]
In Schneider’s opening statement, the court also heard about Johnston’s troubled upbringing.
Johnston was born four months prematurely, and spent the first two years and nine months of her life in a Russian orphanage “with 10 babies to one caregiver,” the lawyer described.
[.....]
After the opening argument, patrol cop, Aisha McCloud, who went to Trott’s apartment on Oct. 21 at 4 a.m., told jurors what she saw when she arrived.
[.....]
The jury later saw a troubling photograph of Trott’s neck, as well as a blurred image of her body and videos from inside the apartment.
[.....]
When shown the photo of Trott’s neck, the jury squirmed and looked away.
The prosecution was eventually reprimanded for introducing so many images of the victim’s apartment, with Judge Ruth Pickholz noting that “so much of this case is conceded.”
