Legal Opinion
Mark Jensen v. Marc Clements
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 8, 2015No. 14-1380PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Julie Jensen’s handwritten letter to the police was “a make or break issue,” an “essential component of the State’s case,” and of “extraordinary value” to “the central issue in this case.” Those are not the court’s words, but the words of the State, as it fought for the admission of the letter before it placed Mark Jensen on trial for his wife Julie’s murder. The State maintained at trial that Jensen killed his wife and framed it to look like suicide. Jensen’s defense was that his wife, depressed, *895and unhappy in marriage, committed suicide and made it look like her…
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- Brecht v. AbrahamsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
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