Defense attorney have not said if they will call Barnes to the stand. Police say she hid her relationship with Barnes from her mother until a week before the killing, then tried to convince Cheryl Silvonek that he was 16.
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Barnes’ lawyer Richard Webster says his client, an army specialist, played no role in the death but conceded he helped clean up the crime scene and bury the mother’s body. She was slated to testify against Caleb Barnes, but ended up instead taking the stand in his defense. Prosecutors say Cheryl Silvonek showed the then 20-year-old Barnes the passport in an effort to break up the couple.
Stay with 69 News for the latest details. In one of the texts, which was projected on a large screen in the courtroom, Barnes allegedly wrote: “I have the knives picked out”.
Two neighbors said they heard the irregular beeping of a vehicle horn for 15 to 20 minutes outside Silvonek’s Randi Lane home just after midnight on March 15, 2015. Right?”, Webster said. “You also lied about Caleb Barnes raping you, right?”Silvonek replied yes to the assertions.Barnes dropped a bombshell on the proceedings when he revealed that Jamie, who was 14 at the time of the murder, was pregnant with his child”. He called Jamie Silvonek a “liar” and a “manipulator”. “She flipped out and attacked me and I couldn’t get her off”, the newspaper reported. Prosecutors said it was her “last ditch effort” to get them to end the relationship.
During his testimony Friday, Barnes placed the blame squarely on the teen Friday, telling jurors that she committed the murder and his only role was helping dispose of evidence because she claimed to be pregnant.
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The Morning Call of Allentown reports Barnes says he was asleep in his auto when Jamie knocked on his window, covered in blood. “I didn’t want that to happen.”Wearing a gray suit and tie, Barnes looked directly at the jury during his testimony”.
“He is not coming to this house”, Cheryl Silvonek texted to her daughter, who had taken the SAT college entrance exam that morning, according to a police affidavit.
Caleb Barnes’ trial Friday. She began attacking her daughter, Barnes said, and “wouldn’t stop hitting Jamie”.
The 22-year-old Barnes is accused of stabbing Cheryl Silvonek in March 2015 in Pennsylvania.
“Jamie Silvonek wanted her mother dead”, he told the jury.
Detective Heffelfinger testified that, at one point, Barnes claimed he killed his girlfriend’s mother in self-defence when she attacked him after catching the pair in the middle of a “sexual act” in her vehicle.
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Barnes is charged with criminal homicide, abuse of a corpse and related charges. He will be formally sentenced in September but a first-degree murder verdict carries a penalty of life in prison without parole.
