A soldier accused of killing his then-14-year-old girlfriend’s mother because she disapproved of their relationship has been found guilty of first degree murder. Dantos told jurors they will get the case this afternoon.
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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. Silvonek had forbidden Jamie from dating the then-20-year-old Barnes.
Jamie Silvonek pleaded guilty in February to killing her mother and agreed to testify against her ex-boyfriend Barnes.
A British mother is asking a US judge to let her personally visit her son, who is jailed in Nevada after what authorities say was an attempt to shoot Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at a Las Vegas campaign. “I realized that I had to do the right thing, that’s taking accountability for my actions, something your client has yet to do”. Dimmig asked.”Yes, I did”, she responded.Webster hammered away at Silvonek’s credibility, forcing her to concede that she had lied throughout the investigation and before.”You lied to your mother, you lied to your father, you lied to police, you lied to the district attorney, you lied to psychologists and doctors”. She stared at her lap, her long blond hair covering her face.
As part of her plea deal, Silvonek was supposed to testify for prosecutors but instead took the stand for the defense Friday. “That’s not the kind of knife you’d use to kill someone.”It was unclear if that was the murder weapon”.
“He started to strangle her, and then, eventually he stabbed her”, Jamie Silvonek said in court Friday, according to the Morning Call. He was off-duty at the time of the killing.
The pair, once a couple in love, testified it was the other person who took a knife and brutally stabbed Cheryl Silvonek in the neck past year outside the Silvoneks’ Upper Macungie Township home.
The Morning Call of Allentown reports Barnes says he was asleep in his vehicle when Jamie knocked on his window, covered in blood.
At one point, Dimmig confronted Barnes on the witness stand with the girl’s passport.
“You didn’t pick this out special?”
Yet on Friday, Barnes denied ever seeing the document before the killing, even when faced with the text message he sent.
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“That’s a utility knife. That’s not a knife for killing someone”, Barnes answered matter-of-factly as a woman in the courtroom audience gasped in disgust.
