Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Happy hour takes place Thursday at the Wilson Tavern in the Courthouse area.
A happy hour Thursday at the Wilson Tavern will raise money for the The Children's Tumor Foundation's upcoming Cupid's Undie Run. “It’s a one and a half mile run and everyone tries to raise money beforehand,” said Kym Jordan, who is running in the race as part of the Lululemon Athletica, Clarendon team. “You run in your underwear and it’s outside. It’s freezing out.” The Cupid's Undie Run on Feb. 9 is a national fundraising event for the foundation that works to find a cure for children with neurofibromatosis. NF is a disorder that causes tumors to grow on nerves throughout the body, causing blindness, deafness, learning disabilities and severe chronic pain, according to the Cupid's Undie run website. It’s the second year the crew at the …
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
The jury deliberated for about an hour before reaching a verdict.
Update 7:10 p.m.: Brittany Norwood, who was charged with killing her coworker Jayna Murray at the Bethesda Lululemon store, was found guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday evening. The jury began deliberating at 5:46 p.m. and wrapped up deliberations around 6:51 p.m. They were instructed to consider both first-degree and second-degree murder verdicts. There was a sigh from the Murray family and an audible "yes" after the jury read their verdict. Juror Donny Knepper said that just as jurors began their deliberations, one informally polled the group to gauge who was leaning towards a first-degree murder verdict. Everyone raised their hands, Knepper said. "What swayed everyone over was the number of ferocious wounds to the head and face …
Medical Examiner Mary Ripple testified Jayna Murray was alive as she suffered at least 331 wounds.
Jayna Murray sustained at least 331 injuries before she died, and she was alive for all of them, according to testimony given today at the Lululemon trial by medical examiner Mary Ripple. Ripple testified that bruising and bleeding around the wounds indicated that Murray was alive during the attack. "She had a pulse, she had a blood pressure, she was bleeding into the wounds—she was alive," Ripple said. Murray's co-worker, Brittany Norwood, stands accused of killing Murray, another Lululemon employee, at the downtown Bethesda shop March 11. The prosecution is seeking to prove Norwood pre-meditated the attack, while Norwood's defense is seeking to prove Norwood "lost it" and killed Murray in a "horrific fight." The estimation as to the …
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Video played for court of Norwood's final interview with police March 18 -- the day of her arrest.
In a video of a March 18 interview played for the court during her murder trial Tuesday, Brittany Norwood grows increasingly upset and defensive as police detectives point out the holes in her crumbling story. The video came during the testimony of detective James Drewry, a key investigator in the Lululemon homicide case. Norwood stands accused of killing her co-worker Jayna Murray at the downtown Bethesda yoga shop March 11, and prosecutors say she staged the crime scene and lied to police to cover up the crime. Norwood initially told police she and Murray had been attacked by two masked men. But when evidence at the crime scene didn't match her tale, police became suspicious. March 18 -- the day of her arrest -- Norwood came to police …
Analyst testifies that two sets of footprints were discovered inside the Lululemon crime scene.
A shoeprint analyst with the Montgomery County Police Department's forensic unit said the crime scene at Lululemon was likely staged during his testimony Tuesday. David McGill told the court that two sets of footprints were discovered at Lululemon following the March 11 crime. But given the initial information that there had been two victims and two suspects, McGill said he spent a significant amount of time searching for more shoeprint tracks, expecting to find more. He never did. McGill testified during the ongoing trial of Brittany Norwood, the woman accused of killing her co-worker Jayna Murray at Bethesda's Lululemon shop. Prosecutors have said she lied to police, telling them the women were attacked by two men, and staged the crime …
Ruvin: 'Either we are dealing with two crazy Columbine High School type kids, or this is all not real'
A detective investigating the Lululemon homicide began doubting Brittany Norwood's story following an interview with her at her Washington, D.C. home March 14. Norwood initially told police she and her co-worker Jayna Murray had been attacked by two masked men. Norwood stands accused of killing Murray, and prosecutors said she lied to police and elaborately staged the crime scene to make it appear as though an attack had taken place. Her defense doesn't contend that she killed Murray, but they argue the attack wasn't pre-meditated, as prosecutors seek to prove. Montgomery County Police detective Dimitry Ruvin, one of the detectives on the case, took the stand at Norwood's trial Monday. He described the initial phases of the investigation, …
Lululemon judge said phone conversations between Murray and another Lululemon employee about Norwood potentially stealing are heresay.
Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Robert Greenberg has ruled the jury will not be able to listen to testimony describing the content of a March 11 phone call between Jayna Murray and another Lululemon employee. During the call, prosecutors say Murray asked another employee, Chioma Nwakibu, whether or not she had sold Brittany Norwood a pair of yoga pants. During a routine bag check, prosecutors say, Murray discovered the pants with the tag still on in Norwood's bag, and Norwood told Murray that Nwakibu had sold them to her. Nwakibu told Murray during the call she hadn't sold the pants to Norwood, and it was shortly after that the confrontation between Norwood and Murray happened, prosecutors said. Before the jury was called in Monday …
Monday, October 31, 2011
Closing statements could come as soon as Wednesday.
Follow Bethesda Patch on Twitter for live updates from the Lululemon trial at Montgomery County Circuit Court in Rockville. Monday marks the beginning of the second week of the Lululemon trial. Scheduled to last eight to 10 days, closing statements could begin as early as this Wednesday. Last week opened with jury selection, and jurors were whittled down from a pool of 300. The jury was seated Wednesday, when opening statements began. During the statements, we learned that the prosecution will argue Brittany Norwood pre-meditated an attack against her co-worker Jayna Murray the night of March 11 at Bethesda’s Lululemon store. Prosecutors are arguing Norwood used up to eight instruments – including a merchandise peg, a mannequin peg, a …
Friday, October 28, 2011
Women who work at Bethesda store described relationships with Murray and Norwood.
Lululemon employees took the stand Friday to describe their interactions with victim Jayna Murray and Brittany Norwood, the employee accused of killing her at the Bethesda store March 11. One employee, Eila Rab, testified Norwood was a friend. The day of the murder, Rab testified she and Norwood had lunch together and got a manicure and pedicure. Rab also said she had socialized with Norwood the weekend before, but the prosecution stopped their line of questioning after the defense objected. Another employee, Chioma Nwakibu, also saw Norwood March 11. She testified Norwood was wearing a different pair of pants that afternoon than the ones she wore in photographs taken when Norwood was discovered the following day, bound on a restroom floor…
Forensics investigator expected to again take the stand.
The Lululemon murder trial is expected to re-convene Friday morning with continuedtestimony from Amanda Kraemer, a Montgomery County police forensics investigator who processed the crime scene at the Bethesda athletics apparel shop March 12. Brittany Norwood stands accused of first-degree murder in the case and her trial is ongoing. Prosecutors have said Norwood killed co-worker Jayna Murray at the shop and used up to eight instruments to injure her, including a knife, a hammer, a wrench, a mannequin peg and a merchandise peg. They say Murray had discovered Norwood attempting to steal from the store. Norwood staged the crime scene to make it appear as though the two women had been attacked and lied to police to cover up the crime, …
Philip
5:50 pm on Thursday, November 3, 2011
Regarding Franks observation of my comment. You are right, I should not have put this on an entire generation. My apologies! more ›