new lawyer might use that as a negotiation tool to say, listen, if we can all go to our respective corners quoitly, we are not going to bring charges, we want to have britney s life back. a d.a. might get wind of this and say we are under a duty to investigate whether there was fish your wrong doing here. there is a lot of finger pointing to go around here. judges can t really do anything unless there is a petition before them. that s not always true. judges can act on their own sui sponte. something was wrong over the last dozen years, they should have done something about this, too. she is not just a money making machine she is an actual person. i hope something does happen here. carley: absolutely. let s talk about this twist in the mollie tibbetts trial. the man who was found guilty of murdering mollie tibbetts was supposed to be sentenced to life in prison without parole this
Jury deliberating in trial for murder of Iowa student; defendant blames mystery men
Kelsey Kremer/AP
Cristhian Bahena Rivera listens to court proceedings during his trial, Tuesday, May 25, 2021, in the Scott County Courthouse in Davenport, Iowa. Bahena Rivera is on trial for the 2018 stabbing death of Mollie Tibbetts, a University of Iowa student. (Kelsey Kremer/The Des Moines Register via AP, Pool)
By: The Associated Press & Scripps National
Posted at 2:52 PM, May 27, 2021
and last updated 2021-05-27 15:19:44-04
The jurors in the trial for the 2018 abduction and stabbing death of a University of Iowa student have started their deliberations.
The defendant accused of killing 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts three years ago was called to the stand on Wednesday to testify in his first-degree murder trial.
this vaccine hesitancy score tiering system. the state resting its case in the mollie tibbetts trial. christian rivera charged with first degree murder. the prosecution questioned investigators. stunning footage captured of a tornado developing. damaging homes and buildings those storms targeting the same parts of the country over and over again in western kansas we could see even worse weather for tomorrow. ainsley: we start with a fox news alert. kentucky senator rand paul receives a death threat. steve: fox news exclusively obtained that photo of the chill ing message. brian: griff jenkins is learning new information this hour. joins us live from washington. griff, how is this story changed griff: well it is changing a little bit, brian, ainsley, and steve, good morning but first can i just go back to that image it was exclusively obtained by fox news and if look closely you see a rifle pointed at senator paul s head in a neck brace, and that is an image we believe to
jillian: good morning and welcome back. we begin your headlines with this. today testimony continues in the mollie tibbetts trial. christian rivera charged in the murder of the death of the 20-year-old. tibbetts went missing in july 2018 while on a run in brooklyn, iowa. her body was found a month later in a cornfield. on friday, a crime lab criminalist confirmed that bad matching tibbetts was found in his trunk. we will keep you updated on that. meantime a manhunt intensifies for a gun nan charged with killing two people in new jersey. hour outside of. phil: phil philadelphia. no arrests have been announced. state police have scheduled a press conference later this morning. 15,000 seats sold out during game one eastern conference between the new york knicks and atlanta hawkeyes.