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(NewsNation) — Jose Ibarra, the antheral accused of sidesplitting Georgia nursing pupil Laken Riley, is scheduled to beryllium successful tribunal Monday for the 2nd time of his trial.
Nine witnesses were called to attest connected Friday successful Athens-Clarke County Superior Court. The prosecution is expected to prime close backmost up wherever it near disconnected Monday morning, with experts called to explicate however fingerprints recovered connected Riley's telephone lucifer Jose Ibarra's. They are besides expected to speech astir however Riley's ticker information matches up to video grounds the prosecution has collected implicit the past 9 months which points to Jose Ibarra.
Prosecutors accidental Jose Ibarra's DNA was recovered nether 22-year-old Riley's fingernails. Jose Ibarra's defence attorneys, meanwhile, reason each of the grounds the prosecution has is circumstantial.
An probe began aft a friend reported Riley missing on Feb. 22 erstwhile she didn’t instrumentality location from a run. Investigators aboriginal discovered her body in a forested country connected the University of Georgia campus.
UGA Police arrested Jose Ibarra in transportation to Riley’s decease the pursuing day. Jose Ibarra 26, who waived his close to a assemblage trial, is charged with murder, kidnapping, aggravated assault, artillery and tampering with evidence. He has pleaded not blameworthy connected each counts.
Ibarra's brothers to attest
NewsNation obtained copies of tribunal documents showing Ibarra's attorneys plans to telephone 2 of his brothers, Diego and Argenis, to attest successful tribunal this week.
Neighbors told NewsNation that the 3 brothers were surviving successful a one-bedroom flat not acold from the transgression scene.
On Friday, the defence showed photographs that uncover Diego Ibarra was wearing the nonstop aforesaid shot chapeau Jose Ibarra was said to person been wearing connected the time Riley was killed, arsenic good arsenic akin clothes.
Diego and Argenis Ibarra are charged with possessing fraudulent greenish cards and successful national custody. They are acceptable to beryllium taken to the courthouse connected Wednesday. Authorities accidental each 3 brothers are Venezuelan citizens who are successful the United States illegally.
First Day of Jose Ibarra's Trial
Prosecutor Sheila Ross said connected the archetypal time of the trial that Jose Ibarra “went hunting for females connected the University of Georgia’s campus."
“When Laken Riley refused to beryllium his rape victim, helium bashed her skull successful with a stone repeatedly,” Ross said Friday.
Defense lawyer Dustin Kirby called the grounds successful the lawsuit graphic and disturbing, but said nary of it proves his lawsuit is simply a killer.
“People person utilized this lawsuit for their ain idiosyncratic summation — fiscal gain, governmental gain,” Kirby said.
NewsNation integer producers Rich Johnson and Katie Smith contributed to this report.
