CANTON, Ohio - A former police officer who tearfully told jurors he accidentally killed his pregnant lover was convicted Friday of murdering her and their unborn child.
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Bobby Cutts Jr. could face the death penalty. He had claimed he accidentally killed Jessie Davis by putting an elbow to her throat, then panicked. Jurors reached their decision on their fourth day of deliberations. Cutts did not react as the verdicts were being read.
Prosecutors told the jury that Cutts killed Davis, 26, last June at her Lake Township home to get out of child support payments for a fourth child.
For more than a week, Cutts, then an officer on the Canton police force, denied knowledge of her whereabouts as thousands searched in the area. He finally led authorities to the body, wrapped in a comforter and dumped in a park about 20 miles from her home.
Cutts was convicted of aggravated murder in the death of the nearly full-term female fetus, which carries the possible death penalty. The jury found him not guilty of aggravated murder in Davis' death, a count that includes intent to kill with prior calculation. But they convicted him of a lesser charge of murder in her death. Cutts also was convicted of abuse of a corpse, burglary and child endangering.
Cutts, 30, testified for four hours Monday, saying tearfully that he accidentally killed Davis as he was trying to leave her house and she didn't want him to go. He said he then panicked. His attorneys said his actions in dumping the body and leaving the little boy alone didn't prove he intended to kill Davis.
"Does that cause you to feel that he's a liar and a cheat and he's going to lie about everything else?" defense attorney Fernando Mack asked during his closing argument Tuesday. "None of that will tell you whether aggravated murder was committed on the morning of June 14th."
:nopityA:
haha nice closing argument there Mr. Mack, he's a liar and a cheat but he is telling the truth about the murder
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Bobby Cutts Jr. could face the death penalty. He had claimed he accidentally killed Jessie Davis by putting an elbow to her throat, then panicked. Jurors reached their decision on their fourth day of deliberations. Cutts did not react as the verdicts were being read.
Prosecutors told the jury that Cutts killed Davis, 26, last June at her Lake Township home to get out of child support payments for a fourth child.
For more than a week, Cutts, then an officer on the Canton police force, denied knowledge of her whereabouts as thousands searched in the area. He finally led authorities to the body, wrapped in a comforter and dumped in a park about 20 miles from her home.
Cutts was convicted of aggravated murder in the death of the nearly full-term female fetus, which carries the possible death penalty. The jury found him not guilty of aggravated murder in Davis' death, a count that includes intent to kill with prior calculation. But they convicted him of a lesser charge of murder in her death. Cutts also was convicted of abuse of a corpse, burglary and child endangering.
Cutts, 30, testified for four hours Monday, saying tearfully that he accidentally killed Davis as he was trying to leave her house and she didn't want him to go. He said he then panicked. His attorneys said his actions in dumping the body and leaving the little boy alone didn't prove he intended to kill Davis.
"Does that cause you to feel that he's a liar and a cheat and he's going to lie about everything else?" defense attorney Fernando Mack asked during his closing argument Tuesday. "None of that will tell you whether aggravated murder was committed on the morning of June 14th."
:nopityA:
haha nice closing argument there Mr. Mack, he's a liar and a cheat but he is telling the truth about the murder
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Bobby Cutts:
1. is a cop
2. has lots of girlfriends
3. thinks dumping bleach on someone wakes them up
4. doesn't know how to use a cell phone
5. thought it'd be cool to watch everyone search for his girlfriends dead body for a week.
6. wondered why it took so long for the jury to convict him
7. is on the phone right now looking for character witnesses
1. is a cop
2. has lots of girlfriends
3. thinks dumping bleach on someone wakes them up
4. doesn't know how to use a cell phone
5. thought it'd be cool to watch everyone search for his girlfriends dead body for a week.
6. wondered why it took so long for the jury to convict him
7. is on the phone right now looking for character witnesses
