Accused murderer defends self in dismembered New Orleans dancer case
Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters
GRETNA, La. (Reuters) - A man accused of murdering and dismembering a New Orleans nightclub dancer represented himself in court on Tuesday, telling jurors in his opening statement that he was innocent.
Terry Speaks, 42, faces charges that he and his then-girlfriend stabbed dancer Jaren Lockhart to death in the early morning of June 6, 2012, and then cut up her body and threw it off a bridge near the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Body parts began washing up on coastal beaches the next day.
A grand jury in 2014 charged Speaks and Margaret Sanchez with second-degree murder, obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
"When you hear evidence, make sure it actually links me to the crime, and if it doesn't, I'm innocent," Speaks told a jury of nine women and three men.
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Lockhart, 22, who was the mother of a 3-year-old daughter, agreed to go to make some money...Surveillance videos from nearby businesses showed the three leaving the club together...according to prosecutor Doug Freese...
Ending up at Speaks' home in Kenner, Louisiana, the couple fatally stabbed Lockhart in the chest and cut up her body, according to Freese, who told jurors the couple thrived on a feeling of power.
He thrives on power? It figures that he couldn't have a lawyer having any kind of power of him. Well, you're not Rick James, bitch -- you're looking at more than two years.
And how sad to need money that badly.
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