On my old site there were a bunch of cases I had been following. Since I got the old site working, which will be dumped when all cases are moved over, I am going to do verdicts on those cases! Jhessye Shockley is one of the cases I was following!
Glendale AZ police issued an Amber Alert for a 5-year-old girl who went missing on 11 October 2011, and are searching for a woman in a Chevrolet car who was seen in the area. Jhessye Shockley is Black, approximately 3 feet 5 inches tall, weighs 55 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a white t-shirt, blue jean shorts and pink sandals. Her hair was in a ponytail.
Police records show Jhessye’s siblings told investigators in the days after her disappearance that Hunter allegedly abused her and kept the girl in a closet.
According to a court documents from November last year, Jhessye’s 13-year-old sister told police her mother kept the girl in a closet, and that Jhessye had black eyes, cuts and bruises before she was reported missing.
The last time anyone saw Jhessye alive was September 22, which was the last time records show her attending school. Her sisters say they never saw Jhessye the day her mother reported her missing, when Hunter told police the older siblings were watching the girl as she ran errands.
Jhessye’s older sister told the police that her mother kept Jhessye locked in a bedroom closet and that she had cuts and bruises on her face and body. According to a court document filed Tuesday in connection with the arrest of Jerice Hunter, the missing girl’s mother, on child abuse charges, the older sister, who is 13, also told investigators that Jhessye had looked like a “zombie,” had not been seen in the apartment well before she was reported missing and that the closet smelled, prompting the mother to clean it. The police said that they suspected that Jhessye was dead and that Ms. Hunter, who has denied any involvement in her daughter’s disappearance, had played a role in it.
Her trial began on March 2, 2015 and lasted 20 days. On April 27, after four days of deliberations, the jury unanimously found Hunter guilty on both counts and further found that aggravated factors had been proven. On September 6, 2012, a Maricopa County Grand Jury indicted Jerice Hunter on one count of child abuse and one count of first degree murder.
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Documents released:
Hunter 2017 Appeal The conclusion to the appeal: For the foregoing reasons, we affirm Hunter’s convictions and sentences
Verdict Update:
Her trial began on March 2, 2015 and lasted 20 days. On April 27, after four days of deliberations, the jury unanimously found Hunter guilty on both counts and further found that aggravated factors had been proven. On September 6, 2012, a Maricopa County Grand Jury indicted Jerice Hunter on one count of child abuse and one count of first degree murder.
The jury had made up its mind on the verdict during closing arguments, when they rarely took notes. Instead several of them were seen checking the clock while one spun in his chair.
A jury sentenced Jerice Hunter to an Arizona prison for the rest of her life without the possibility of parole on 17 April 2015 for killing Jhessye.
Jhesseys body has never been found.
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