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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, 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, EP27 "Victim-Impact Statements"
Prosecutors turned the jury's attention to victim-impact statements. First up, was Jennifer Fulford's daughter who testified remotely for the jury. Next was her son. Fulford was killed on the same exact Day her granddaughter was born. Emotions filled this courtroom when jurors and the Gallery Heard both her daughter and son talk about their painful grief in losing their mother.
S1, EP28 "Remembering Jennifer Fulford"
Stipulations from written statements and court testimony took over trial proceedings. This was his death penalty phase where prosecutors were presenting evidence to the jury in Scott Nelson's role in killing Jennifer Fulford, a woman he never met before. Prosecutors recalled the chief medical examiner back to the stand. Jurors listened to graphic detail again on how Fulford lost her life from suffocation and multiple stab wounds to her body.
S1, EP29 "James Nelson"
Scott Nelson's father was allegedly very abusive with the whole family when he was growing up. Testifying in Nelson's death penalty phase was James, his older brother. James went into detail about the defendant's troubled childhood. His defense was trying to convince a jury to spare his life from the death penalty. It'll soon come down to a fundamental question jurors would answer later in their deliberations. Would a bad childhood be enough to spare a convicted killer from state execution?
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, 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, 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, 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.
