ADAIR JURY TO HEAR OTHER-SUSPECT THEORY.Byline: Jesse Hiestand Daily News Staff Writer A judge ruled Friday that Jeanie Adair can present evidence at her murder trial that could implicate im·pli·cate tr.v. im·pli·cat·ed, im·pli·cat·ing, im·pli·cates 1. To involve or connect intimately or incriminatingly: evidence that implicates others in the plot. 2. her lover's former wife in the baseball-bat slaying of her husband. Adair's attorney said they plan to prove Adair's husband, Robert, was mistakenly killed by someone really after Jeanie Adair for her affair with a married man. ``I think it has relevance,'' said San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. Superior Court Judge L. Jeffrey Wiatt. ``I see no reason to deprive the jury of this information, and trust the jury to do the right thing.'' Jury selection is set to begin Monday. In November 1996, Adair told police that a home-invasion robber killed her husband and beat her, but more than a year later, police arrested her on suspicion of murder. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. prosecutors, the 38-year-old mother of two killed her husband to collect more than $300,000 in life insurance payments and other assets other assets Assets of relatively small value. For financial reporting purposes, firms frequently combine small assets into a single category rather than listing each item separately. . Adair's attorney, Richard Plotin, said he will call a witness who says the orchestrator of the attack was Mindy Shapiro, the wife of Adair's lover. The witness has said that on the day of the attack she was with Shapiro, who was upset and crying as she spent 90 minutes on a cell phone talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to a man about Robert Adair. According to court records filed by the defense, Shapiro knew Robert Adair was ``dead or beat up real bad'' two hours before there was any public knowledge of the attack. However, Joyce Russell's testimony during a pretrial pre·tri·al n. A proceeding held before an official trial, especially to clarify points of law and facts. adj. 1. Of or relating to a pretrial. 2. hearing this week fell short of that, with her unable to recall the exact nature of the phone call. Plotin said he has cellular telephone records to verify the timing of the call and evidence that Mindy Shapiro threatened to kill Jeanie Adair. ``It supports the defense theory of a third person making an arrangement to beat up my client but that poor Robert got killed when he came home early for lunch,'' Plotin said after the ruling. Mindy Shapiro was at the hearing Friday but declined to comment. Her attorney has previously denied she had any involvement in this crime. Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Marsh Goldstein also declined to comment. If convicted, Adair faces life in prison without the possibility of parole because she is charged with murder and the special circumstances special circumstances n. in criminal cases, particularly homicides, actions of the accused or the situation under which the crime was committed for which state statutes allow or require imposition of a more severe punishment. of lying in wait and murder for financial gain. |
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