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Extra: Prosecutor: Journals show "Jocelyn feared for her life"

December 3, 2011 7:30 PM

Prosecutor Wes Nance talks to correspondent Tracy Smith about Jocelyn's journals and the written timeline prosecutors believe Wesley Earnest altered before her death

Suicide or murder: How did Jocelyn Earnest die?
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by fayettaj June 8, 2012 10:07 AM EDT
First clue was all the written journals that the wrote she would leave a suicide note on typewriter .My very first thought .6655woods picked up on .It is a simple logic thought .
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by Paleezze June 3, 2012 7:56 PM EDT
There is one thing that bothers me tremendously, so much so that it might just be enough to cause me reasonable doubt in this case and I believe he's guilty. However reasonable doubt comes to me in the suicide letter where it states......"My new love will never leave the family" Not 'her' family or 'his' family, no... 'the family' That sentence was intentionally constructed to leave out the sex of the lover. There was testimony from Jocelyn's 'new love'. She states , they kissed 3 times. It wasn't known to others. The whole case, for me, comes down to, did he know about his wife's affair with that other woman? If not, he couldn't have written it into the suicide note. The more I think about it the more I come to believe he didn't write it. It's hard to believe that he may be innocent because everything screams guilty. But if he didn't write the note..... She must have.
The cops really have nothing but their suspicions and speculations. That's what they get paid to do. Would someone PLEASE tell me whether or not, at trial, it was proven that Earnest knew about Jocelyn's female love interest prior to her death. If you have that information, PLEASE take a few seconds out of your life and let me know.
Thanks,
Becky
Toronto Canada
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by sprachenlehrer December 4, 2011 3:21 PM EST
Apparently, you have overlooked the fact that the time-line and journals were ruled not admissible as evidence in the prosecution because the defense could not cross-examine. Thus, any reference to them at all was likewise inadmissible. The fact that the first jury somehow gained access to the journals was the entire basis for the mistrial and grounds for the second trial.
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by 6655woods December 4, 2011 1:44 PM EST
I am surprised that the prosecution never raised the idea that a woman who kept a hand written time line and 17 hand written journals would type something as personal as a suicide note to her own mother. I would have brought thata up to the jury, she would not have typed it.
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