Young raleigh trial

A three-judge panel from the Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the issue wasn't serious enough to merit a redo. Hunter wrote for the unanimous panel.

Latest stories in the Jason Young murder trial. The prospect of a third trial has been up and down the rungs of North Carolina's courts system over the last few years. The Court of Appeals awarded him a new trial in , but prosecutors appealed that ruling to the state Supreme Court, which said the Court of Appeals erred in ordering a new trial but said other issues from the trial needed further review. The appeals court then kicked the case back to Wake County Superior Court for another hearing, and the new trial was denied.

The Court of Appeals affirmed that decision this week, setting aside the argument about the civil case as well as complaints of insufficient evidence and ineffective counsel. Among other things, the panel noted that the reference to Stephens' role in the civil trial was a brief one, and that neither side made much of it at the time or introduced Stephens' judgment into evidence.

Published: Updated: I totally agree. It really makes me sick when people automatically judge someone guilty because they were cheating. It's ridiculous. I also agree with you about the "witness". She absolutely was a retard. I hope Jason is freed one day. It's sad how many innocent people are in jail because all these people and the fact that the KNOW someone is guilty. Look at Curtis Lovelace! Of course you can convict without DNA or physical evidence.

He was, indeed, convicted. And the North Carolina Supreme Court upheld that conviction. Do you think you know more than the court? The problem is that people like you are suffering from the CSI effect. You believe that without clear physical evidence, there is no case. Circumstantial evidence is evidence and often the entirety of it is just as good, if not better than direct evidence.

But by the way, circumstantial evidence includes things like fingerprints. Most cases that conclude in a verdict of guilty after trial are based on circumstantial evidence. Sometimes there is little physical; evidence. And that's okay. Not guilty. The balances of power and resources tilt way in their favor He clearly should not have been found not guilty. The police have very little linking him to the crime, no physical evidence, and he has a very good alibi. Also, are we supposed to believe that he had this elaborately planned out but had no plan for how to kill his wife aside from attempted strangulation then bludgeoning?

No chance. If he had planned it out, he would have had a simpler, less personal, less intimate way of killing her. No, the way she was killed suggests an unpremeditated act of passion. You must be one of the monsters ho's since you are so convinced of his innonence. He is a sob and a monster from hell who blungeoned his five months pregnant wife with his little girl in the house.

It doesn't get any worse than that. Michelle was beautiful but she was abused by this narcissistic posted and she deserved so much better. His parents are scum white trash too. I wish Michelle had RUN away so fast from this add hole and taken her daughter back home to family where she'd be safe. A few more things that do not add up: the prosecution claims that Cassidy's being cleaned up proves Jason was the killer for only he would have taken the time to clean his daughter up.

Quite the opposite: her being cleaned up pretty much proves he was not the killer. One, do you mean to tell me that after planning this whole thing out so that he would have an alibi, he decided to clean his daughter up and put socks on her feet after murdering her mother so that his very smart and verbal two-year old could tell police she had seen her "daddy" that very morning, that he had put socks on her feet?

Two, far more importantly, if he had killed Michelle when the prosecution says he did around 3am, then he would have had no reason to clean Cassidy because Cassidy would have been asleep in bed. Even if she had woken up as a result of the sound of the assault, he wouldn't have allowed her to walk around in her mother's blood and place her hands on her mother's bloodied body. That Cassidy was covered in her mother's wet blood and that someone cleaned her up points to someone other than Jason, namely Meredith.

This ugly inbred looking Jason Young clearly murdered his wife. He was an unfaithful ,immature, posted excuse for a husband. He wanted his daughter and all his wore girlfriends and didn't want to pay child support. What Michelle ever saw in this redneck abusive country hick is beyond comprehension. I hope he ROTS in prison and gets his pathetic as beat every damn day. Women are abused by the thousands in this country every day by as shoes like Jason Young.

Just reading all these comments. What are the reasons Michelles sister would have murdered her? The two of them had a close, good relationship and those who even suggest Meredith could have done this vicious deed don't know this case inside and out, don't know the family dynamics, and certainly don't know Meredith! Meredith is giving Cass the best life possible, loving her, providing for her, and keeping her mother's memory alive. Shame on those who perpetrate this atrocious theory that Meredith had anything to do with her sister's murder.

Jason Young brutally murdered his wife and will spend the rest of his life in prison where I hop he suffers greatly! I have just finlshed reading the book and I believe the sister killled her that is if the book was genuine ,I was always of the belief to be found guilty it had to be beyond a reasonable doubt. Too many people are convicted who are innocent. Why don't they just ask the daughter what happened she clearly witnessed it.

This has a lot of similarities with the Scott Peterson case. Both men seemed capable of the crime, but they were convicted by emotion and because of their demeanor and adultery.

They may be guilty but in each case there is not enough evidence to convict them. That's how it works: you have to put aside your moralizing and "gut feelings" and actually weigh up the evidence. That didn't happen in either of these cases. And the piece of shit, SOB will take his last breath in a maximum security prison cell.

Where I hope he suffers greatly for this heinous act of violence against the mother of his children!! That would definitely point to his guilt. On the other hand, the fact that he had no blood anywhere on himself or his clothes or inside his car would point to innocence. Why are some people saying the sister killed Michelle? What would be her motive?

This shithead deserves all the hell and misery her can get. Piece of shit. So he gets home at 3am and drugs his Daughter of 2 with enough drugs to really put her to sleep yet proceeds to kill his wife in front of her?

Seeing as the daycare employee said Cassidy was recreating her Moms attack she had to have witnessed it then. So he gets to hotel at 11pm, hops on his laptop and quickly looks up sport related websites, rushes to grab a newspaper to show up on camera to support his alibi and all within an hour before quickly sneaking out the propped open door, arriving back at home at 3am and proceeding to drug his Daughter, murder his Wife, clean up parts of the crime scene, ditch his clothes and the murder weapon all within an hour roughly so he could then race back to the hotel to arrive there by 7am, sneak back in and pretend he was there all night?

That's a fairly tight timeline with a lot to accomplish in. To top it all off he must have lost time at the gas station, which oddly enough, didnt contain timestamps on the video footage which is weird in itself. Taking into account the impromptu gas station stop he was operating on an even tighter return window.

He might be guilty as hell but there sure is a lot of holes in the states case. In November , year-old Jason Young and his year-old wife Michelle lived in a suburban home outside of Raleigh, North Carolina. They had a two-year-old daughter named Cassidy and Michelle was five months pregnant with their second child.

It was not a happy marriage. Jason had several girlfriends, and as a salesman for a medical software company, spent a lot of time on the road.

Michelle told friends and relatives that she hated her life. On the morning of November 3, , Jason was out of town. Jason asked Meredith to stop by his house and retrieve some papers for him. Presumably, he told Meredith he had called home and didn't get an answer. Later that morning, Meredith Fisher entered the Young house on Jason's behalf.

When she climbed the stairs to the second floor she was shocked by the sight of bloody footprints. In the master bedroom she discovered her sister lying facedown in a pool of blood. The victim, wearing a white sweatshirt and black sweatpants, had been bludgeoned to death beyond recognition. Meredith found Cassidy hiding under the covers of her parents' bed. She had not been harmed, but her socks were saturated in her mother's blood.

Meredith Fisher called According to the forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy, the assailant had struck Michelle Young at least thirty times in the head. The attacker had tried to kill the victim by manual strangulation before beating her to death.

The extent of the head wounds suggested an attack by an enraged, out-of-control killer who hated the victim. The authorities, from the beginning, suspected that Jason Young had snuck back to North Carolina from Virginia, murdered his wife, then returned to the Hampton Inn. After going into deliberations around a. We'll notify you here with news about. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest?

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