Jury hears closing arguments in brutal Las Vegas loss of life penalty homicide case

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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Prosecutors Tuesday urged a Clark County jury to discover a man responsible of a revenge killing for murdering and slicing up and setting on fireplace the stays of the particular person they are saying slept together with his and impregnated his spouse, then forcing her to have an abortion.

In closing arguments of a loss of life penalty homicide trial, prosecutors mentioned Anthony Newton robbed, kidnapped and murdered Cesar Molina on Christmas 2016 in East Las Vegas. Newton is charged with six felonies,  together with open homicide, kidnapping and theft – all with a lethal weapon.

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If convicted of first-degree homicide, Clark County District Courtroom Choose Jacqueline Bluth will preside over a separate, extra part of the trial to find out Newton’s sentence. The jury would, in that case, have the authority to ship Newton to loss of life row.

“Your job is quite straightforward,” William Flinn, a chief deputy district lawyer, in his closing argument to the jury mentioned.  “Take the overwhelming evidence, apply the law and return a conclusion. And that conclusion should be to hold Anthony Newton accountable and find him guilty.”

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Newton’s lawyer, alternatively, argued that the state didn’t meet its burden of proof that Newton is responsible past an inexpensive doubt. He mentioned inconsistent witness testimony and contradictory forensic proof ought to tilt the decision in Newton’s favor.

“There is not evidence that my client committed this crime,” Josh Tomsheck, a highly-regarded protection lawyer mentioned. “He wasn’t there.” 

One merchandise of proof, Tomsheck factors to in that principle of the case is {that a} house owner in Henderson discovered what police finally recognized as Molina’s hand in 2018, some two years after the homicide whereas Newton was in Clark County Detention Heart awaiting trial.

Tomsheck argued, and prosecutors couldn’t refute that Newton couldn’t have positioned Molina’s severed, decaying hand into that mailbox.

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Newton went on trial late in 2024 for a similar expenses, however Bluth declared a mistrial as a result of that jury heard testimony about Newton’s jail time, which Newton’s attorneys argued would make it unimaginable for a jury to render a good verdict. 

That witness, Kelsea Glass, is predicted to plead responsible for her position in luring Molina to the residence the place prosecutors say he was killed, public information present. One other witness, George Malaperdas, can also be anticipated to plead responsible in February for serving to take away Molina’s physique elements after his loss of life.

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