A police interrogation transcript of Likelihood was proven to the jury Thursday, which prosecutors says reveals he knowingly lied about his whereabouts and particulars of his son Jared’s actions.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — After per week of testimony, the prosecution confirmed the final spherical of proof to a Kent County courtroom within the trial of James Likelihood.
Likelihood is accused of serving to his son Jared conceal the homicide of Oshtemo-native Ashley Younger in 2018. He faces expenses of perjury and being an adjunct after the actual fact in her dismemberment.
In December, a decide sentenced Jared Likelihood to 100 to 200 years in jail for Younger’s killing and dismemberment, and he now could be serving the remainder of his life in jail.
On Monday, Jared’s mother Barbara Chance pleaded no contest to the identical expenses as her husband. Kent County Circuit Decide Paul J. Denenfeld says he plans to condemn Barbara to no a couple of yr in Kent County Jail. Her sentencing is scheduled for February 19th.
The prosecution claims that James Likelihood knowingly lied to investigators about his son’s actions, and took steps to assist him conceal Younger’s physique components.
A number of individuals concerned within the case had been known as to testify over the week, together with the sufferer’s mom Kristine Younger. Whereas on the stand, Younger spoke about what went by means of her head after realizing her daughter was lacking, and the way she felt when she came upon the Jared Likelihood was the final particular person she had been with.
Younger stated that she recalled personally questioning Likelihood about her daughters whereabouts, however he claimed that she had been with another person.
The youthful Likelihood’s downstairs neighbor Mario Nelson, who found Younger’s stays and known as police, additionally testified throughout Tuesday courtroom proceedings.
On Wednesday, the son Konrad Likelihood testified that his father knew that Jared had dedicated the homicide. He additionally revealed that his brother confessed to the crime when each had been at residence togeather, saying that he was “probably the most upset i’ve ever seen him.”
The prosecution known as a number of crime scene investigators to the stand, the place they introduced the noticed believed to have been used to dismember Younger’s physique, and transcripts of an interrogation police held on James Likelihood whereas he was beneath an investigative subpoena.
Kent County prosecutors argued through the trial on Thursday that James lied in regards to the time the household drove between his son’s Franklin Road condo in Grand Rapids and the residence in Holland, the place they allegedly shepherded physique components and instruments utilized in dismembering Younger.
Police reviews element how the inconsistency within the elder Likelihood’s account of what occurred hampered efforts to search out the remainder of Younger’s physique components, of which her head, arms and ft are nonetheless lacking.
Thursday was the final day for continued testimony and proof presentation. James Likelihood’s protection requested for Decide Paul Denefeld to throw out the case as a result of lack of proof, however he lastly ordered it could be finest to ship the entire expenses to be determined by the jury.
On Friday, January 10th, closing arguments are scheduled for the trial by each the protection and prosecution.