Court Paper
Rahul Baboo
Dr. Kurt Stanberry
Court Report
Court Observation Paper
For my court observation report I chose to join a jury hearing on a capital murder case on March 4, 2015. The name of the case was the State of Texas vs. Joseph Facundo and the case number is 1344346. The judge name was Price and the case involved a man who is being accused for capital murder and robbery in Katy Texas.
Amber Thorne was arrested and charged with capital murder and aggravated robbery on December 29, 2011. She was born on August 28, 1989. She lives at Sivilermill in Katy. She works at signature dry cleaner. Thorne has had an extensive history of drug abuse problems dating back to her teens. According to her testimony, she along with two others, Joseph Facundo and a man name Tony conspired to rob her drug dealer Russell Lopez for money and drugs. She always gets the drugs from Russell on a weekly basis so he had no difficulties doing the exchange in his own house. Russell Lopez was the guy who got killed. During the conversation Russell was feeding his kids who made Amber change of heart from her actions but it was too late. Joseph grabs a hammer that was hanging in his side pocket and kept striking Russell in the head. Tony tied the children up in the bedrooms then dragged Russell into the master bedroom; then called Joseph who had the sword and slit his throat but left the children unharmed. They grabbed as much jewelry, electronics, money, TV etc. as they could and put it in the back of Russell’s tundra truck which they took to a vacant house next to Amber’s house. They then burned the truck trying to get rid of as much evidence as possible. Last in a week Amber was caught selling some the stolen possessions to an undercover police detective. During her witness her lawyer stated that her client had no purpose in the murder that Joseph Facundo and Tony committed. The witness also stated that she had only intended to rob Russell but not commit murder. Amber’s lawyer was trying to
Dr. Kurt Stanberry
Court Report
Court Observation Paper
For my court observation report I chose to join a jury hearing on a capital murder case on March 4, 2015. The name of the case was the State of Texas vs. Joseph Facundo and the case number is 1344346. The judge name was Price and the case involved a man who is being accused for capital murder and robbery in Katy Texas.
Amber Thorne was arrested and charged with capital murder and aggravated robbery on December 29, 2011. She was born on August 28, 1989. She lives at Sivilermill in Katy. She works at signature dry cleaner. Thorne has had an extensive history of drug abuse problems dating back to her teens. According to her testimony, she along with two others, Joseph Facundo and a man name Tony conspired to rob her drug dealer Russell Lopez for money and drugs. She always gets the drugs from Russell on a weekly basis so he had no difficulties doing the exchange in his own house. Russell Lopez was the guy who got killed. During the conversation Russell was feeding his kids who made Amber change of heart from her actions but it was too late. Joseph grabs a hammer that was hanging in his side pocket and kept striking Russell in the head. Tony tied the children up in the bedrooms then dragged Russell into the master bedroom; then called Joseph who had the sword and slit his throat but left the children unharmed. They grabbed as much jewelry, electronics, money, TV etc. as they could and put it in the back of Russell’s tundra truck which they took to a vacant house next to Amber’s house. They then burned the truck trying to get rid of as much evidence as possible. Last in a week Amber was caught selling some the stolen possessions to an undercover police detective. During her witness her lawyer stated that her client had no purpose in the murder that Joseph Facundo and Tony committed. The witness also stated that she had only intended to rob Russell but not commit murder. Amber’s lawyer was trying to