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Jade Janks had more to say on the stand. During a long direct examination, she told jurors her side of the story of events that led to Tom Merriman's overdose. Was he asleep or was he dead? That's what the defendant recalled when she came across the body of Tom Merriman lying there in her car. Janks tried to convince the jury on her side story on what led to her stepdad's death.
Jade Janks had more to say on the stand. During a long direct examination, she told jurors her side of the story of events that led to Tom Merriman's overdose. Was he asleep or was he dead? That's what the defendant recalled when she came across the body of Tom Merriman lying there in her car. Janks tried to convince the jury on her side story on what led to her stepdad's death.
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S1, EP37 "Closing Arguments"Closing arguments began after the Defense rested their case. Jade Janks, the defendant, was the last witness on the stand. The lead prosecutor narrated a murder story to jurors by pointing out, She needs to get help to bring him inside to make it look like an overdose. Janks' lesser charges included second degree murder, voluntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP38 "Motive, Means, And Opportunity"State's closing arguments with their thesis to the jury that Jade Janks ambushed, drugged, strangled and suffocated Tom Merriman to death. The lead prosecutor pushed the jury to take in all the physical and circumstantial evidence they presented. He highlighted the importance of understanding the motive, means and opportunity in this case. According to the stand, Janks had two plans. Plan A was homicide. Plan B was suicide.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP39 "Defense's Final Remarks To Jurors"Jurors listened to the defense's closing arguments. Jade Janks' lead attorney poked holes in the state's case against her especially his main assertion that a homicide in Tom Merriman's death never even happened. Lead defense attorney Marc Carlos dismissed the state's two main claims against her during closing arguments. One, was that Merriman was murdered, and two, that his own stepdaughter collaborated with several men to try to drug, suffocate, and strangle him to death.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP40 "No Proof Of Murder"A murder plot makes no sense was what Marc Carlos, lead defense attorney, during closing arguments. The defense ripped the prosecution's case that Tom Merriman's death was part of a murder plot that involved his stepdaughter-neighbor and several men she tried to recruit as potential hitmen. The defense delivered the final phase of their closing arguments arguing that the state failed to prove not only that Janks was responsible in a premeditated murder but that a homicide even occurred.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP36 "Walk Us Through On What Happened"The lead prosecutor was not done probing Jade Janks on the stand. She was testifying for her own defense. She admitted to the jury that she did cover up stepfather's remains after he died. After going over the timeline of events leading up to Tom Merriman's death, the state had Janks go through and explain her text messages. Jurors listened to the defendant while weighing her credibility.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP35 "Jade Janks Under Cross-Examination"Jade Janks faced cross-examination on the witness stand. She admitted that she didn't tell any close friends or relatives about finding those nude photos on her stepdad, Tom Merriman's computer. Instead, she reached out to a complete stranger she met on Facebook about the whole ordeal. Janks recalled her emotional and mental state in the eight days of the discovery of the nude photos and the victim's death.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP34 "Dead In Her Car"Jade Janks had more to say on the stand. During a long direct examination, she told jurors her side of the story of events that led to Tom Merriman's overdose. Was he asleep or was he dead? That's what the defendant recalled when she came across the body of Tom Merriman lying there in her car. Janks tried to convince the jury on her side story on what led to her stepdad's death.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP33 "In The Eight Days To Murder"Jade Janks was emotional as she told the jury that she saw more than 100 nude photos of herself on her stepdad's computer. She claimed that Tom Merriman even cropped some of the pictures of her and divided them up into different folders based on her different body parts. Eight days after she discovered the nude photos on her stepdad's computer Merriman died. During her long testimony to jurors, Janks' defense team wanted her to narrate the days and hours leading up to Tom Merriman's death.
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