From the Salt Lake City Tribune: Following a weeklong trial and eight hours of deliberation, a jury late Friday night acquitted Roberto Miramontes Román of the 2010 slaying of Millard County Deputy Josie Greathouse Fox.
A jury of six men and four women found Román,
40, not guilty of first-degree felony aggravated murder, but convicted
him of felony counts of evidence tampering and illegal possession of a
dangerous weapon....
Doug Fox, the husband of Josie Fox, blamed the verdict on the judge, saying he had kept critical evidence from the jury.
Referring to Román’s alleged confession to police, Doug Fox said: "He admitted he done it. That flat-ass tells you that he’s guilty...
Finlinson blasted Román’s story, calling it
"insult to injury" and a "convenient" tale that prosecutors heard for
the first time Thursday.
"Blame the dead guy," he said of Greathouse,
who died in April 2010 of a drug overdose. "Blame the guy who can’t
defend himself. Blame the guy who can’t respond."
"Ryan Greathouse did not kill his sister," Finlinson added.
The prosecutor added that Román’s account,
which contradicts a confession he gave police a day after Fox’s death,
does not fit with the evidence in the case.
While the defense attorney may have doing his job by bringing p dead people who could not defend themselves, there are others to blame as well. The jury, who obviously came from Las Vegas because of their stupidity and the DA and judge also should be blamed.
I remember when this happened and the coward defendant ran away and was subject of a huge manhunt. If an innocent person is truly innocent, why did they run? Why did the thug defendant confess to the crime of killing a police officer.
This was a travesty of justice and unfortunately, the thug killer will get out of jail soon to again terrorize Utah. I hope they can live with that up there.
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