because some counts may be proven against one defendant does not mean that all counts will be proven beyond a reasonable doubt against both defendants. and it became clear that the defense strategy was to point the finger at the other brother. jonathan carr s lawyer argued that neither andy schreiber, the carjack victim or ann walenta who survived long enough to talk to police, identified him as the second assailant and no physical evidence connected him to either crime. the only evidence connecting jonathan carr is the simple fact that he is the brother of the co-defendant reginald carr. only guilt by association. jonathan carr s lawyers called no witnesses. their only evidence, an unused train ticket to cleveland, ohio, good for the night of the murders. he was actually supposed to leave very early during the morning hours of december 15th, 2000. he was supposed to board an
that s the ultimate decision any person could make on someone s life. i didn t take it lightly. we have to have that weight on our shoulders for the rest of our lives, and i don t think anyone that would know what that felt like unless you had been through the situation. the jurors were unmoved by the testimony about the brothers difficult childhood. we re accountable for the choices that we make in this life. there s a lot of kids that go through a lot worse things that they went through and they re not out killing people. then, on november 14th, 2002, exactly 23 months after the carr brothers had knocked on that condominium door, the vote. i ll approve the verdict as to form. ms. marcus, publish the verdict, please, ma am. at 5:30 in the afternoon the jury filed into the packed courtroom. i just remember my heart was pounding. that s all i could hear, was my heart just pounding. we find that the proper sentence for reginald d. carr jr. is death. we find the that
the car with andy schreiber, the gunman schreiber never saw. did any of you think jonathan was there? i did. you did? i still do. i think we all did, but there was no evidence. that just drove me nuts. after 11 hours, they reached a decision. guilty of capital murder. guilty of the capital murder. guilty of the capital murder. guilty on all counts for reginald carr. his brother jonathan carr guilty of all but the carjacking of andy schreiber. reginald and jonathan were sitting there expressionless. they didn t show you know, they weren t upset by it. they weren t, you know, happy by it. reginald was sitting there putting chapstick on. that s how much it affected him. for more than six weeks, jurors said they had been hearing and seeing evidence that kept them awake at night. but the toughest task was yet to come, deciding if two men who seemed to kill so easily deserved the death penalty.
were alive. i went to jason. i rolled him over. he had blood coming out of one of his eyes. and then i went over to brad to see if he was still alive. and at that point, after looking at aaron and heather, i decided that i needed to go and to get help. wearing nothing, not even shoes, h.g. ran more than a mile through the snowy fields and across a highway, determined that her attackers would not escape. it was the beginning of a two-year odyssey that brought her and the carr brothers face to face in this wichita courtroom. what do you think it is or it was about her that made her act that way under those conditions? she just had the sheer will to survive.
capital offense and if the aggravating factors outweigh the mitigating factors, then the sentence shall be death. then it was the defense s turn to make the case that the brothers did not deserve to die. we re going to bring some evidence in front of you to try to explain what has happened to reginald and jonathan carr, what has taken them from the place they were when they were children to the place they were on that night of december the 15th of the year 2000. the defense called witnesses who testified that the carrs were not the monsters they had been made out to be. jonathan carr used to work for juanita culver s husband. what can you tell us about jonathan? i thought he was probably one of the nicest, polite, kind, warm, giving, always he was