03-02-2016, 11:34 PM
CASES CLOSED:
JESSE LEROY MATTHEW JR. PLEADS GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS
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]Jesse Matthew Jr., 34, (^ center) will face four consecutive life sentences for the disappearance and murder of Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington (left) in 2009 and University of Virginia student Hannah Graham (right) in 2014.
Matthew entered the guilty plea during a hearing at Albemarle County Circuit Court. In exchange, authorities will not press for the death penalty previously sought in the Graham case.
The parents of both Graham and Harrington were in the courtroom when the pleas were entered. Matthew did not speak during the 45-minute proceeding.
A spokesman for the Matthew family expressed sorrow for what he had done and for the anguish the parents of the two students suffered.
Matthew, a nursing assistant and former college football player, had been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of abduction with intent to defile. DNA linked both murders to Matthew.
He pleaded guilty last year to a 2005 sexual assault in Fairfax County, Virginia, and is serving three life terms.
Morgan Harrington, 20, disappeared after leaving a Metallica concert in Charlottesville in October 2009, police have said.
Her remains were found about three months later in a rural area. Virginia State Police have said a forensic connection in her death was made to Matthew.
Hannah Graham, a sophomore, was 18 when she went missing in September 2014. Charlottesville police said she and Matthew were seen on a video surveillance camera walking on a downtown mall together.
Matthew fled the area but he was arrested on a beach in Galveston County, Texas, and returned to Virginia. Graham's remains were found near Charlottesville about five weeks after she disappeared.
Ref: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/susp...0de4034ca3
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If one supports the death penalty, Jesse Leroy Matther Jr. definitely deserved it.
Personally, I'm glad he pleaded guilty in exchange for prosecutors taking the death penalty off the table and the families were okay with it.
His sorry ass will be confined to prison for the rest of his natural life. There's no chance a jury will somehow acquit him. It would be decades before he'd be executed anyway. It saves the taxpayers money overall. And, it frees public law officials to handle other cases.
RIP Morgan and Hannah.
JESSE LEROY MATTHEW JR. PLEADS GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS
]Jesse Matthew Jr., 34, (^ center) will face four consecutive life sentences for the disappearance and murder of Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington (left) in 2009 and University of Virginia student Hannah Graham (right) in 2014.
Matthew entered the guilty plea during a hearing at Albemarle County Circuit Court. In exchange, authorities will not press for the death penalty previously sought in the Graham case.
The parents of both Graham and Harrington were in the courtroom when the pleas were entered. Matthew did not speak during the 45-minute proceeding.
A spokesman for the Matthew family expressed sorrow for what he had done and for the anguish the parents of the two students suffered.
Matthew, a nursing assistant and former college football player, had been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of abduction with intent to defile. DNA linked both murders to Matthew.
He pleaded guilty last year to a 2005 sexual assault in Fairfax County, Virginia, and is serving three life terms.
Morgan Harrington, 20, disappeared after leaving a Metallica concert in Charlottesville in October 2009, police have said.
Her remains were found about three months later in a rural area. Virginia State Police have said a forensic connection in her death was made to Matthew.
Hannah Graham, a sophomore, was 18 when she went missing in September 2014. Charlottesville police said she and Matthew were seen on a video surveillance camera walking on a downtown mall together.
Matthew fled the area but he was arrested on a beach in Galveston County, Texas, and returned to Virginia. Graham's remains were found near Charlottesville about five weeks after she disappeared.
Ref: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/susp...0de4034ca3
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If one supports the death penalty, Jesse Leroy Matther Jr. definitely deserved it.
Personally, I'm glad he pleaded guilty in exchange for prosecutors taking the death penalty off the table and the families were okay with it.
His sorry ass will be confined to prison for the rest of his natural life. There's no chance a jury will somehow acquit him. It would be decades before he'd be executed anyway. It saves the taxpayers money overall. And, it frees public law officials to handle other cases.
RIP Morgan and Hannah.