Levine & Levine says Jacob Emmendorfer served nearly three years behind bars until jurors determined Friday he was not guilty of first-degree child abuse and first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo County jury reached a not guilty verdict on Friday, May 5 for a man charged with felony murder, first-degree .
Kalamazoo man charged with sexually assaulting, killing 13-month-old to stand trial
Updated Feb 17, 2021;
Posted Feb 17, 2021
Portage police responded to Milham Meadows Apartments on Aug. 12, 2020 on the call of an unresponsive child. On Aug. 13, Meilani Marie Hart, 13 months, was pronounced dead at Bronson Methodist Hospital. (MLive file photo | Crystal Vander Weit)KALAMAZOO
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KALAMAZOO, MI A man accused of sexually assaulting and killing 13-month-old Meilani Hart last summer at a Portage apartment will now stand trial.
Jacob Britton Emmendorfer, 27, is charged with homicide, child abuse and first-degree criminal sexual assault related to the child’s death. Emmendorfer’s case was bound over to Kalamazoo County Circuit Court on Wednesday, Feb. 17 by Kalamazoo County District Judge Richard Santoni.
Dec 21, 2020
A Portage man has been charged in connection to the death of an infant in August.
Twenty-seven-year-old Jacob Emmendorfer was charged on Monday with open murder, first-degree child abuse and first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
Fourteen-month-old Meilani Hart was found unresponsive on August 12.
She died the next day.
Police say Emmendorfer is the child s mother s estranged boyfriend.
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