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    Victim's Mother, Friend Testify In Murder Trial Of Man Accused Of Fatally Stomping On Woman's Head

    By Brittany Toolis
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    NORMAN, Oklahoma - Testimony began in the trial of the man charged in the brutal killing of Brittani Young.

    It was an emotional day at the Cleveland County Courthouse as Young’s mother and friend testified, reliving the day of the slaying in 2018.

    Cleveland County prosecutors said Joseph Alliniece stomped on Young's head until she died.

    The defense didn't deny he was responsible.

    Instead Alliniece's lawyers claimed their client lost control, killing Young in a fit of rage.

    Prosecutors called five witnesses.

    Kelly Nipper was one. She spent time with Young and Alliniece hours before Young was murdered.

    Nipper said the couple argued a little bit and she didn’t think anything bad would happen when she left for her doctors appointment.

    When she came back, she said Alliniece pulled her into the apartment and that's where she saw Young's body.

    Young's mother, Stacy Roberts Rasberry, also testified on Monday.

    She said on the day Young died, her daughter called her crying, and asked her to come over. When she arrived, Roberts-Raspberry couldn't get inside at first.

    She thought her daughter was playing a trick on her. She eventually got inside and discovered her daughter's body. Also in the room with her daughter’s body was Nipper and her toddler huddled and afraid in a corner.

    “It hit me so hard. I feel really, really, really bad for her. Really bad for her. I don’t know what to say, Brittani loved her daughter to death,” said Roberts-Raspberry.

    Alliniece's case is eligible for a death penalty sentence if he is found guilty. The trial will resume at 9 a.m. Tuesday.

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    Law enforcement, cab driver testify in death penalty trial

    By Jamie Berry
    The Norman Transcript

    A death penalty trial for Texas resident Joseph Alliniece continued Tuesday with testimony from law enforcement officers, a former cab driver who picked up the defendant and one of Alliniece’s friends who had recent contact with him.

    Alliniece, 32, of Missouri City, Texas, is charged with first-degree murder of Norman resident Brittani Young, 27, as well as two counts of kidnapping and one count of robbery by force or fear.

    According to a Norman police affidavit, officers found Young on April 24, 2018, dead inside her Emerald Greens Apartments residence. Alliniece fled the scene but was later arrested that night by Oklahoma City Police Department officers. He was then taken to the Norman Investigations Center for questioning, where he said he couldn’t remember anything from that day.

    Alliniece is being held on $5 million bond, state records show.

    Norman Police Officer Chris Antwine, who worked patrol in 2018, said he was the first officer to report on scene around 2:54 p.m.

    He testified in Cleveland County District Judge Lori Walkley’s courtroom that the call was initially labeled a medical call involving an unconscious woman who was possibly breathing, so he hurried and followed people’s directions pointing him to Young’s patio door.

    He looked inside and saw Young’s body, then entered the room and got out his flashlight, since the living room was dark. He also found some burnt papers on a box.

    He said he checked Young’s femoral artery in her leg for a pulse but found none, and found no suspects inside the apartment after a search. He also looked for any possible weapons inside the apartment.

    Antwine said Young’s head had been smashed, the scene was bloody and one of her ears was lying near her head.

    Officer Ashlie Livingston testified that she arrived shortly after Antwine and went inside to check on Young and the apartment unit. When witnesses on scene reported that they saw a man running north from the scene five minutes before officers arrived, she passed on information to other officers on the radio and searched for the suspect and anything he may have dropped. She found nothing, but also requested a search be conducted at the nearby University of Oklahoma golf course.

    Livingston said she and Antwine asked for medical support to confirm Young’s death, because her body still felt warm.

    Livingston said she spoke to the victim’s friend, who had been pulled inside the apartment with her toddler, and Young’s mother, Stacey Raspberry, who arrived on scene while the friend and her child were being held hostage. Both of them had moved inside their vehicles, and the friend was given another shirt to wear after removing her own bloodied shirt.

    Norman Lt. Matt Woodard, who was a shift supervisor, testified that he set up a perimeter search around the area, contacted an off-duty K-9 handler and asked the Oklahoma City Police Department for assistance from their helicopter pilot in the search for Alliniece.

    Around 4:45 p.m., Woodard said Young’s phone, which Alliniece had taken from the scene, pinged around the area of Classen Boulevard and State Highway 9. Her phone was found on a grassy hill near the intersection, where technical investigators were called in to take pictures of the phone and admit it into evidence.

    Blaine Davison, a former Norman police detective of over 23 years, said he helped gather video evidence to track Alliniece’s movements that night after Young’s death. Footage from several locations — including a Yukon Walmart Supercenter, Mustang Quick Junction in Mustang and a Petro Truck Stop in Oklahoma City — shows full or partial views of Alliniece at each store throughout the day.

    The state presented surveillance video footage from the locations into evidence.

    Defense attorney Mitchell Solomon pointed out that none of the videos show Alliniece purchasing new clothes to replace the ones he was wearing at the time, which were still blood from the crime scene.

    Jumaid Arshad, who was a cab driver with his own taxi business in 2018, said Alliniece contacted him, told him to pick him up at the Petro Truck Stop and asked him about fare. Arshad picked Alliniece up behind the gas station, and Alliniece told him he needed to head to a pharmacy. Arshad suggested the Yukon Walmart, and told Alliniece he would have to tally up the extra cost later.

    Arshad said Alliniece was in the Walmart for a short period of time, and he next took the suspect to the Mustang Quick Junction. Alliniece kept waiting inside the vehicle; Arshad testified that he heard Alliniece texting on his phone and assumed he was waiting for somebody.

    When nobody showed, Alliniece gave Arshad an address in Oklahoma City. Arshad said when they saw an inmate bus on the way, Alliniece became nervous and asked him to drive faster past it.

    Once they arrived, Arshad said Alliniece paid him after negotiating over the new price, and he drove away. Alliniece was found later behind a dumpster near that address.

    One of Alliniece’s friends from Houston, Natasha Jeppers, said Alliniece and Young blew up her phone April 24, 2018, asking her to take Alliniece from Young’s apartment. Jeppers said she first met Alliniece around 2016, and met Young on one of Alliniece’s later visits to Oklahoma.

    Jeppers testified that she said told them she would be able to later. She offered to call some friends who were closer, as she was heading to Tulsa soon to visit another friend.

    Jeppers said she was at Riverwind Casino when she noticed all of her Messenger calls and texts from Young and Alliniece.

    The last message she received from Young was sent at 2:22 p.m. April 24, saying, “Can you get this dude for real? He can’t stay here,” adding that Alliniece kept calling her names. Jeppers said she didn’t hear from Young after that, but tried to call her the next morning after seeing a concerning Facebook post about Young.

    She testified that she heard a lot from Alliniece after Young’s last message, with texts saying, “Call me now,” lots of missed calls and some returned calls where he begged her to come get him.

    During one call, she said Alliniece said he wasn’t sure that Young was still breathing, but the message went over her head because she was traveling at the time, and she started ignoring him. After 7:27 p.m., she didn’t hear from him any more.

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    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Cleveland Co. Jury Finds Joseph Alliniece Guilty Of First-Degree Murder

    By Brittany Toolis
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    A Cleveland County jury convicted Joseph Alliniece for the brutal death of Brittani Young, a Norman woman killed in 2018.

    After a week of witness testimony, the jury took just over 90 minutes of deliberation to come to a guilty verdict.

    “We’ve been waiting for this day for a long time. And it’s not over yet,” said Brittani’s sister-in-law Jamie Murphy.

    Brittani's family cried tears of joy in the hallway of courtroom as the verdict came in.

    Alliniece was found guilty on all counts of first-degree murder, kidnapping and robbery.

    Young’s family hugged each other as they walked away from the courthouse, each wearing pink in solidarity.

    “It was Brittani’s favorite color,” said her sister, Brandi Murphy. “Our Brittani girl,” added Jamie.

    The defense presented and rested its case Monday, calling two witnesses to the stand and reading a statement from a third.

    Alliniece's mom is one who took the stand Monday afternoon. His godmother also took the stand. Both talked about talking on the phone with Alliniece the day Brittani died in 2018. His mom spoke with him and Brittani several times.

    Alliniece’s godmother texted with him after Brittani’s killing. She then reported her godson to local police.

    She is credited with helping police locate Alliniece by giving investigators his phone number. Authorities pinged his phone to find where he was.

    The statement came from an EMT who responded and said the killing looked like “pure f****** rage,” after seeing Young’s body. That was a keystone in the defense's argument.

    It’s also something District Attorney Greg Mashburn rebutted with a dramatic scene in court, stomping his own foot in front of the jury box.

    “[To] give the jury an impression of what was actually done to the victim, to help them understand the force that was used.” Mashburn added. “You’re only going to do that when you intend to take someone’s life.”

    Now the trial moves on to sentencing.

    “We’re halfway there. We’re halfway there,” said Brittani’s sister, Brandi.

    Mashburn plans to argue the jury should sentence Alliniece to death.

    “The defense will put on mitigating evidence maybe to not warrant the death penalty,” he explained.

    The sentencing phase will begin Tuesday at 9 a.m.

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    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    Jury finds Alliniece guilty, hears testimony regarding sentencing

    By Jamie Berry
    The Norman Transcript

    The sentencing phase began Tuesday in a death penalty trial for a Texas man after a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping and robbery by force or fear.

    The jury gave its verdict Monday in Cleveland County District Judge Lori Walkley’s courtroom in the case of Joseph Fidel Alliniece, 32, of Missouri City, Texas, after about 90 minutes of deliberation. Alliniece was found guilty of killing Norman resident Brittani Young, 27, who was a former girlfriend, on April 24, 2018.

    Norman police responded shortly after Young’s death inside a residence at the Emerald Greens Apartments. Alliniece had fled the scene, and a search ensued. That night, Alliniece was found and arrested by Oklahoma City Police Department officers, then brought to Norman for questioning.

    Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn said Tuesday that he was pleased with Monday’s verdict, and was ready to move into the sentencing phase of the trial.

    Several times during the opening of the sentencing phase Tuesday, Alliniece’s defense team requested a motion for a mistrial based on statements made by the state’s attorneys in sentencing opening statements.

    Cleveland County District Judge Lori Walkley denied the motion.

    Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Austin said during the state’s opening Tuesday that the state’s evidence will prove Alliniece has a history of violent behavior, that the crime was heinous, atrocious and cruel and that he is a continued threat.

    Defense attorney Shae Sealy Raven opened by telling jurors that the state must prove each point beyond a reasonable doubt.

    “Obviously we have had a difference of opinion up until now, but we respect your verdict,” Raven said. “Mitigation is what you want it to be … You never, ever, ever have to vote for death. I suspect you want to punish Joe Alliniece. Do that by sending him to prison for the rest of his life.”

    State’s witnesses ranged from Alliniece’s family members, to deputies and an inmate who testified about incidents that occurred while he was in custody.

    Brenda Alliniece, the defendant’s mother, said her son internalized emotions, and her divorce from his father when he was around 11 affected him a lot. She described him as well liked growing up, a football player who received a college scholarship and a son who was protective of her.

    She said he sometimes acted angry around her, but not always with her, often verbalizing his frustrations to her. He also blamed her for things sometimes.

    Brenda confirmed to the state that Joseph was sentenced and put in prison after assaulting two girlfriends, including one outside her house. She said she was asleep during that incident, but saw a Bandaid on the girlfriend’s head a day or two later covering a wound.

    Brenda said she tried to help Joseph turn his life around after he got out of prison, but later suspected him of throwing a brick through her window while a friend and Joseph’s sister were at her house.

    Brenda noted that, according to a police report from that incident, she had told officers Joseph verbally threatened to kill her. However, she didn’t file any charges against him.

    Brenda said she also sought a mental assessment for Joseph, but he declined to go in for testing or treatment.

    Brenda said she didn’t know about Joseph’s plan to come to Oklahoma, but sent some money to her son through a close family friend. She testified that she didn’t talk to Joseph or Young until the day of the murder.

    According to state’s evidence presented last week, Joseph used Young’s friend’s phone to call his mother after the murder and once Young’s friend and her toddler were inside. After the call, Brenda, who had been at work, knew she had to get home.

    She said she received another call from Joseph after he was arrested, during which he blamed her for the murder and called her names.

    Upon cross examination, Brenda clarified that Joseph never hit or harmed any family members.

    Joseph’s older sister, Shamira Alliniece Harris, said she last had contact with her brother in December 2015. She said his legal problems generally involved girlfriends, and the two of them had tension because she was protective of their mother.

    Harris testified that she awoke one night in fall 2015 to her mother’s window shattering. She said she saw Joseph’s car outside, but not him.

    She also testified that in fall 2015, he called her and said he would kill his mom and himself. Another time, she said she received a concerning call from a close family friend that prompted her to call the police.

    During his phone call to his mom after he was arrested for murder, which she answered, Harris described Joseph as cross and agitated.

    Jessica Ferrell, one of Joseph Alliniece’s former girlfriends and Young’s friend from Texas, testified that dated him when she was about 15 or 16. She described an incident during which she, Alliniece, Young and one of Alliniece’s friends were at a hotel together.

    While Young and the friend were outside and she and Alliniece were alone, she said he tried to kiss her on the neck. When she asked him to stop, she said he put one hand on her throat and put her back against the wall, then kissed her neck some more. She asked him to stop, and he let her go.

    Jurors also heard from two correctional officers from Fort Bend County Jail, who testified that while Alliniece was incarcerated, he attacked two inmates at the facility, placing one in a headlock and biting him on the cheek in 2010, and bruising another’s face after hitting him in 2011. During the latter altercation, Alliniece received injuries that caused bleeding. No charges were filed from the incidents on either side.

    Jurors also heard from witnesses regarding a sexual battery count that was filed against Alliniece just days before his trial began in early April. At the time of incident, he had been trying on jury clothes, testimony confirms.

    The state played an April 2 video from the jail that shows a female inmate, who was being discharged, entering a bathroom area of the jail, and Alliniece going in shortly after her. She then leaves and he lingers in the area.

    The inmate, Karen Haase, who had been incarcerated for public intoxication for several days, testified that she went to get a drink of water from the bathroom. As she opened the door, Alliniece started coming in, and grabbed and squeezed her chest with his hand, she said. She then got out and reported the incident.

    “It brought up a lot of stuff from my past,” she said.

    Cleveland County Sgt. Kaylie Graham reviewed the video after the incident was reported. She and another deputy later interviewed Alliniece, who brought up the bathroom incident but denied any wrongdoing. However, he admitted going into the bathroom when he knew Haase was inside.

    Alliniece’s defense said he wasn’t on his medications April 2, and upon cross examination, Graham said the defendant wasn’t directly asked if he was off his medications. However, she testified that he received his Miranda rights and claimed to understand when he was being questioned.

    The sentencing part of the trial will continue at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

    https://www.normantranscript.com/new...ec95adf67.html
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Jury sentences Texas man to death in murder of Norman woman

    A Cleveland County jury sentenced a man found guilty of murdering a Norman woman to the death penalty Friday evening after five hours of deliberation.

    The jury on Monday found Joseph Fidel Alliniece, 32, guilty of first-degree murder in the 2018 killing of Norman resident Brittani Young, along with one count of robbery by force or fear and two counts of kidnapping.

    On Friday, hours after impassioned closing statements from both the state and the defense, the jury decided the death sentence was appropriate.

    Alliniece killed Young, 27, inside her Emerald Greens Apartments residence April 24, 2018, stomping on her multiple times. Young, a former girlfriend of Alliniece’s, had allowed him to stay with her while he visited Oklahoma from Texas.

    Young’s mother and sister testified this week that her murder was deeply traumatic for them and has had lasting mental and emotional impact.

    “She allowed him to come up here from Houston and stay with her, and he took advantage of that,” Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn said. “He started being disrespectful toward her, and when she finally was trying to push him out — not physically, but just trying to get him to get his stuff and leave — and telling him she was going to call the police, that was when he brutally murdered her right in the middle of her living room floor.”

    The death penalty was only one of several options — including life with or without the possibility of parole — handed to the jury by the court.

    The Cleveland County District Attorney’s Office filed for the death penalty in Alliniece’s case in August 2018. The office last sought the death penalty in a 2014 beheading case involving Alton Nolen, who was convicted of first-degree murder and five counts of assault and battery with a deadly weapon.

    Friday morning, attorneys for the state pushed the jury to consider the death penalty, working to support the idea that Alliniece may have started his life as a kind and sweet son and friend but had become a man whose ongoing decisions to choose violence posed a physical threat to those close to him.

    Assistant District Attorney Christy Miller detailed to the jury how Young would have been alive and struggling when Alliniece beat her and stomped her head, tearing off one of her ears and leaving blood in her airways and lungs. After killing Young, Alliniece also held hostage her friend and her friend’s toddler, leading to the additional charges.

    “He didn’t care about her suffering — he didn’t care what he was doing to Brittani that day,” Miller said. “He was completely pitiless and differential that day.”

    For the jury to consider the death penalty for Alliniece, the state was tasked with proving that Alliniece’s actions were heinous, cruel and atrocious, that he has a history of violence and that he poses a continuing threat.

    Miller cited Alliniece’s history of violence toward women — from a 2010 incident in which Alliniece allegedly bit a woman’s forehead, a 2016 incident where he punched down and stomped on another girlfriend and an incident April 2 of this year in which he groped a woman at the county jail — as evidence that his track record of harm is ongoing.

    “It’s another piece to show you that he will not stop — he will not stop, in jail or out of jail,” Miller said. “Nobody’s safe from him, no matter where he is.”

    The defense, meanwhile, pleaded to jurors for mercy in its closing argument, asking them to consider other sentencing options for the sake of Alliniece and his family, who defense attorney Raven Sealy said “still believe his life has purpose.”

    The defense team brought forward Alliniece’s parents and close family friends Thursday, piecing together memories of Alliniece as a thoughtful child and friend in his youth.

    Sealy said Friday that jurors could only deliver the death penalty if the state had convinced them, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the aggravating circumstances in Alliniece’s case outweighed any mitigating circumstances they saw.

    “This decision isn’t easy — it shouldn’t be. You are faced with a horrendous crime and faced with what to do with a man’s life,” Sealy said. “... The state says that Joe Alliniece deserves the death penalty, that he has earned the death penalty. Ladies and gentlemen, mercy is mitigation. Mercy is a reason not to give the death penalty. Mercy is not deserved, mercy is not earned.”

    The defense declined to comment after the sentence was delivered Friday evening.

    Mashburn argued Friday to the jury that while mercy was an option, jurors could pick another path for Alliniece.

    “You can show mercy and use sympathy in that, but should you? Should you do that, for this guy?” Mashburn said to the jury.

    Mashburn said after the sentence was delivered that justice was done for Young on Friday.

    “Like I told the jury, he aggravated this crime to such an extent that the punishment needed to be aggravated, as well,” Mashburn said. “The death sentence should be reserved for the worst of the worst, and, clearly, Joseph Alliniece is the worst of the worst. Justice was done today, for sure.”



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    Looking at the pictures of him and the victim, I know exactly what the basis of his appeals will be. Also is this Cleveland County’s first DR inmate or have there been others
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    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    Alliniece sentenced to death on 7/22/2021 and entered Oklahoma's death row on 8/2/2021.

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    Awesome. Oklahoma death row inmates are kept in 24-hour solitary confinement. He’ll have plenty of time to think about what he did.
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