SNOW HILL — A Texas man, sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of first-degree murder in the death of a Delaware woman killed in Pocomoke and found years later buried in Snow Hill, could be getting a new trial after the state’s highest court last week ruled in favor of his appeal.
Justin Hadel, now 23, of College Station, Texas, was found guilty in June 2011 of first-degree murder for the beating death of Christine Sheddy, a 26-year-old Delaware woman reported missing in November 2007 from a farm near Pocomoke where she had been staying with friends. Sheddy had moved to the Byrd Rd. residence about two months earlier and shared the home with another couple, Clarence “Junior” Jackson and Tia Johnson, along with Johnson’s two young children and her cousin, Hadel.
Sheddy was reported missing on Nov. 13, 2007, touching off a massive search in the area of the Byrd Rd. residence to no avail. After an extensive two-year search, Sheddy’s remains were found buried under a bed-and-breakfast in Snow Hill where both Jackson and Johnson had worked prior to her disappearance. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner later ruled Sheddy had been killed by as many as four blows from a blunt object.
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3 comments:
And this, Ladies and Gentleman is how worthless LAWYERS get Murderers out of prison.
Lawyers, are the LOWEST form of life in the is world. Look at our President and FLOTUS.... Prime example of solid pieces of crap.
I personally am all for the due process of law, but seriously he wanted to change his lawyer 4 days before the trial! Why? So he could postpone the trial alittle more. Did the victim in the case get a chance to appeal? NOPE you and your family KILLED HER!
There isn't a lawyer in the world, that would have made a difference, in the guilty verdict. When you tell 2 people, who have no connection with each other whatsoever, virtually the same exact story, and the evidence matches up with the stories, you will be convicted.
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