George Huguely Trial: Jurors Read Last Letter He Sent to Yeardley Love
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Hemera/Thinkstock(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) — Jurors in the trial of accused murderer George Huguely V began the second week of his trial Monday by reading private correspondence between Huguely and his ex-girlfriend Yeardley Love.
The jurors were presented a stack of papers that contained copies of a letter from Huguely to Love that was found in her desk drawer as well as the now famous email exchange in which Huguely wrote to the murdered co-ed, “I should have killed you.”
The correspondence was not read aloud in court, so the content of the communication was not revealed to spectators in the courtroom or to the press.
Media requests to make the evidence public were denied by the judge.
Huguely, 24, is charged with first degree murder as well as five other charges in the death of Love.
Love, 22, was a star lacrosse player at the school and a senior just weeks away from graduation. Huguely was also a lacrosse player for the school’s nationally ranked team.
The prosecution has interrogated more than 30 witnesses in a trial that is expected to last at least through this week.
Prosecutors allege that an enraged Huguely allegedly kicked through the door of Love’s bedroom the night she died and shook her, banging her head against the wall, before leaving her bleeding. A bloody Love was later found face-down on her bed by a roommate. Her face was covered in scrapes and bruises, according to a police warrant, and her right eye was swollen shut.
The defense has suggested that Love’s death may have been caused by a fatal combination of Adderall and alcohol that could have stopped her heart and that jurors should consider Huguely’s role in her death as involuntary manslaughter at the most.
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