The trial is expected to last several days.Barry Morphew sat in front of his two daughters in court, occasionally whispering with his attorneys or pointing to papers in front of him. Members of the jury sat outside of the traditional jury box, spaced six feet from each other. Only a limited number of people were allowed to attend the trial in person, and others listened to an audio-only livestream online, which cut in and out a few times during attorneys’ opening statements. The case began before Denver District Judge Jay Grant Wednesday morning with a variety of precautions and changes because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. “The scientific and physical evidence shows Micah did not murder Michelle.” “You don’t have to understand why Michelle was acting this way or why Micah and Michelle were arguing,” Nielsen said. In a 911 call, Kimball said that he and Jacobson had been “playing with a gun, and it went off.” He also said he was in another room when the gun fired and that he didn’t know what had happened. The prosecution pointed to that as evidence Kimball posed the scene his defense team argued he’d moved the gun in order to try to provide first aid, and said Kimball was wailing, “No no no,” in the video. But when police arrive minutes later, Jacobson’s body is in a different position and the gun has been moved to her left side. That video shows Jacobson’s body in one position and the gun on the right side of her body. 27 shows him going into the bedroom after Jacobson died, and shows her body, both sides agreed. The medical examiner ruled the cause of death to be undetermined, in part because it is physically possible for someone to shoot themselves in the top of their head.Ī short video recorded on Kimball’s phone at 12:09 a.m. Kimball’s DNA was also not found on the trigger of the gun - but Jacobson’s was. Kimball’s clothing did not have any blood spatter on it, she said, and it would have been impossible for him to shoot her at such close range without the blood hitting him, as it hit several other surfaces in the room. The physical evidence in the case shows Jacobson died by suicide with a contact wound to her head, and Kimball was in another room at the time the shot was fired, Nielsen argued to the jury. “Not surprisingly, Michelle was reckless, impulsive and out of control in the minutes before her death,” she said. Jacobson’s behavior at the home that night - she punched a window and broke the glass in an attempt to get inside the locked house, then tried kicking down doors to get inside - showed she was unstable, Nielsen said. Teen employee killed inside Walgreens in Colorado Springs was stabbed more than 40 timesĭefense attorney Dru Nielsen acknowledged Kimballs’ rude and offensive comments, but said his text messages and calls were driven by loving concern for Jacobson, who was both very drunk and had amphetamine in her system when she died. Later in the night, after she had returned home, Kimball accused Jacobson of cheating on him, locked her out of their home and told her she forgot to pay rent. In another, he sent her a map of her location at a bar and accused her of lying about being on her way home, Aziz said. In one message around 10:30 p.m., he said, “Hey baby, just trying to figure out when you’ll be home…and who baby is, and where home is, because you gave up on both.” Kimball then called Jacobson 13 times over the next couple hours and texted her multiple times asking where she was and when she was coming home. He pointed to text messages, voicemails, phone records and witness accounts that show the couple split up after a disagreement at a party around 9 p.m., with Kimball going home and Jacobson staying out. “And when she defied him, he took control back and killed her. Jacobson,” Deputy District Attorney Bilal Aziz told the jury. “The defendant spent that night trying to exert control over Ms. Denver police jumped to conclusions when they pinned Jacobson’s death on Kimball and failed to consider evidence that pointed to suicide in a rush to make an arrest, they argued. Jacobson killed herself, defense attorneys countered, in an act driven by drugs and alcohol at the end of a contentious, rage-filled night. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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