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Nanny Abduction Murder Trial
Cross-examination continued on the Defense's first witness during the penalty phase. James Nelson, Scott's older, brother explained what he went through as child and young teenager. Next, more of the defendant's family members came to his defense. After the long testimony from his older brother the jury listened to Scott's first cousin. The aim was to show how mitigating factors was serious enough for jurors not to send him to death row for killing Jennifer Fulford, an innocent nanny.
S1, EP23 "Intention To Rob And Kill"
Scott Nelson's defense team delivered their closing arguments to jurors in his murder trial. His lawyer claimed Nelson never premeditated the suffocating and stabbing Death of Jennifer Fulford. Therefore, he argued this wasn't felony murder. But later, prosecutors reminded jurors that Scott Nelson brought and used duct tape and zip ties to intentionally rob and kill this innocent nanny. Jurors would have the last say on what was really on Nelson's mind before he attacked Fulford.
S1, EP24 "Verdict"
After just four hours of deliberations, the jury rendered their verdict in Scott Nelson's role in Jennifer Fulford's death. Next, the life of a once homeless drifter and former-felon-turned-murderer was now in the hands of these jurors. The death penalty phase was underway and this same jury who convicted Nelson of murder would decide if he should be executed by the state of Florida.
S1, EP25 "Aggravating Factors"
Cold, calculated, and premeditated were the aggravating factors prosecutors contended led Scott Nelson to kill Jennifer Fulford. In their opening statements in his penalty phase, the prosecution team pushed for him to be executed by the state of Florida. Next, a victim of an earlier crime he was accused of testified against Nelson. She was a bank teller for the time he attempted to rob her branch with a fake bomb. Jurors were learning more of Nelson's violent criminal past.
S1, EP26 "Bank Robberies"
Bank robberies was on Scott Nelson's resume years before he graduated to being a convicted killer in Jennifer Fulford's death. Prosecutors brought in two cases of him when he attempted to rob bank branches with threats of a bomb and a gun. Prior acts and aggravated factors are key elements prosecutors wanted to use against Nelson in their attempt to persuade jurors to recommend he face the death penalty.
S1, EP22 "Murder Timeline"
Prosecutors accusing Scott Nelson of intentionally murdering Jennifer Fulford gave their final remarks to jurors. In the State's closing arguments they laid out their timeline of events that began with a home invasion and ended with Fulford's remains left abandoned in a grassy field. A killer on the run was how the prosecutor put it in Scott Nelson's actions. If the jury convicted him for this murder, the State would then turn their evidence against him for why he should face the death penalty.
S1, EP21 "Defense Rests Their Case"
Scott Nelson had more to tell jurors on what led to him killing Jennifer Fulford. On the stand, he did not deny his actions. Instead, he wanted to make clear his true motive in this kidnap, robbery, carjack, and murder. After his testimony, his defense team rested their case to jurors. Next was closing arguments. The jury would soon decide on Nelson's guilt in the kidnapping-murder of Jennifer Fulford. If they choose to convict him, these same jurors will decide if he faces the death penalty.
S1, EP20 "Defendant Vents And Rants On The Stand"
On the stand in his own murder trial, Scott Nelson admitted that he killed Jennifer Fulford but initially wanted to kill his federal probation officer, Julio Dominguez. Nelson claimed it was Dominguez who caused him to be a homeless drifter on the streets for months. His desperation caused him to commit murder on an Innocent nanny. Instead of showing remorse to his crimes he put himself as the victim in this story of how the criminal system abandoned him and impeded his means of survival.
S1, EP19 "Defendant Takes The Stand"
The State rested their case after playing back for the jury the confession Scott Nelson gave during his police interview. At the start of the Defense's case, the defendant took the stand to give his reasoning on why he kidnapped, carjacked, robbed, and then murdered Jennifer Fulford. According to him, it was his probation officer that motivated him to kill an innocent nanny. How? The probation officer got Nelson thrown on the streets and he acted desperately in his means to survive.
