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    Angela Darlene McAnulty - Oregon


    Jeanette Maples




    Mother’s trial to begin Feb. 1

    The death penalty murder trial of Angela Darlene McAnulty will begin as scheduled Feb. 1, a judge decided Thursday after a brief hearing on a defense motion to postpone the case.

    The 42-year-old north Eugene woman is accused of fatally starving, maiming and torturing her 15-year-old daughter, Jeanette Maples, who reportedly weighed only 50 pounds when she died in December 2009.

    Jeanette’s stepfather also faces aggravated murder charges in her death. Prosecutors have said they will not seek the death penalty for Richard Anthony McAnulty because the facts don’t justify it in his case. The couple are being tried separately. Richard McAnulty’s case is scheduled for trial May 3.

    Angela McAnulty appeared in court Thursday as her attorney, Ken Hadley, asked Lane County Circuit Judge Mary Ann Bearden to postpone the trial until May 1.

    Hadley cited four reasons. He told Bearden that his co-counsel, Steven Krasik, needed more time to prepare because a Marion County bank bomb case in which he participated lasted a month longer than anticipated, ending Dec. 22. Krasik then flew to California because of a family member’s medical crisis, he said.

    Hadley also cited the defense team’s trouble working with Angela McAnulty “because of her crying and her moods.”

    A defense psychiatrist prescribed medication that improved her condition, Hadley said, but the doctor still needs “considerable time” to probe McAnulty’s mental state over the past few years.

    The psychiatrist has warned that doing so would most likely cause “a serious mental decline” that could make McAnulty psychotic and unable to assist in her defense, Hadley said.

    Angela McAnulty ap-peared composed Thursday, sitting erect at the defense table in a black jacket and pants.

    The defense also needs more time to review more than 3,000 pages of prosecution evidence it received in late November, Hadley told Bearden.

    Finally, he said, postponement would give the defense time to use “important information” it believes could lead to settlement of the case.

    But Lane County Dis-trict Attorney Alex Gardner and prosecuting Deputy District Attorney Erik Hasselman told Bearden that they had made clear “from day one” that they did not intend to settle the case. Gardner said the facts in the case “cried out” for a jury to consider the death penalty.

    Hasselman also said the prosecution provided the bulk of its evidence to the defense last spring. The documents provided this fall were “almost entirely” records from California child protective services detailing that state’s efforts to terminate her parental rights. A court there did so for Jeanette’s two older siblings, but returned the girl to her mother’s custody.

    The deputy district attorney said all attorneys in the case have “extremely busy trial schedules,” and that the defense in November told the judge in the case, Lane County Senior Circuit Judge Kip Leonard, that they didn’t have a mental incapacity defense for McAnulty.

    Bearden swiftly ruled that the trial would proceed Feb. 1.

    It is expected to last as long as six weeks, Hasselman said in an interview after the ruling.

    Some of that time will be consumed with an unusually careful jury selection process because of the potential death penalty, he said. That process will begin Jan. 31, when a panel of 150 prospective jurors are convened for preliminary screening — most likely in the Lane County Public Service Building’s Harris Hall.

    Those who pass that process will then appear in a court one by one to answer questions from Leonard and prosecution and defense attorneys.

    Once a jury is seated, the guilt phase of the trial is expected to last more than two weeks. If McAnulty is convicted, the jury will then be asked to decide her sentence, Hasselman said.

    http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms...rial-death.csp

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    McAnulty waived rights

    Jurors in Angela McAnulty’s upcoming aggravated murder trial will hear statements she made to sheriff’s deputies in the hours following her 15-year-old daughter’s death from abuse, a judge decided Thursday.

    After reviewing interview videotapes and police reports, Lane County Circuit Senior Judge Kip Leonard ruled that the north Eugene woman voluntarily waived her rights to remain silent and have an attorney present when she talked to detectives between midnight of Dec. 9, 2009, and noon the following day.

    Prosecutors want jurors to be able to consider imposing the death penalty on the 42-year-old mother for allegedly beating, starving and torturing her daughter to death. Leonard said he would issue a written ruling before her Feb. 1 trial on a defense challenge of capital punishment as an option in the case.

    Leonard also said he would rule later on defense objections to prosecutors’ plans to show jurors photographs of Jeanette Maples’ battered and emaciated body. Defense attorney Ken Hadley of Baker City argued that such photos would unfairly prejudice the jurors against his client. But Prosecutor JoAnn Miller said the state needed to show jurors 10 to 20 of the admittedly gruesome images in order to prove that McAnulty intentionally maimed and tortured her home-schooled daughter.

    Jeanette’s stepfather, Richard McAnulty, also faces aggravated murder charges in her death, but the state is not seeking the death penalty for him, saying evidence does not support doing so.

    Angela McAnulty spent much of Thursday morning and part of the afternoon in the courtroom, sitting at the defense table between Hadley and her other attorney, Steven Krasik of Salem. She used a marking pen and legal pad to ask them questions during the pretrial hearing. When she spoke to them during breaks in the proceeding, she did so in a girlish voice that seemed at odds with the gray streaks in her dark hair.

    Hadley had urged Leonard to rule inadmissible McAnulty’s statements to detectives, particularly anything she said after telling investigators “I’m done” on multiple occasions.

    “When someone says they’re finished, that should be it,” he said. He added that she made the statements while sleep-deprived and in the aftermath of a “very emotional event.”

    But Prosecutor Erik Hasselman argued that the jury should hear the statements, noting that the detectives repeatedly advised McAnulty of her rights and made no threats or promises to get her to talk.

    “From the state’s perspective, this is a very clean interview,” he said.

    The judge agreed, telling Hadley that each time his client said she was finished talking, detectives simply sat silently. And each time, it was McAnulty who broke the silence and began talking again, Leonard said.

    Neither side played the videotapes in court, and the lawyers made only general references to their contents. But Hasselman said they showed the accused woman “trying to redirect attention elsewhere, to mitigate or minimize her own conduct” in Jeanette’s death.

    The hearing’s only witness, Lane County Sheriff’s Detective Aaron Hoberg, said McAnulty was “pretty quiet” as he drove her from the hospital where Jeanette was declared dead to the sheriff’s office, where both she and her husband voluntarily agreed to go for questioning.

    “The only thing she asked about was (her) other two kids, if they were home alone,” Hoberg said. “I told her we had deputies there with them.”

    She had become agitated by the last time he questioned her in a jail interview room about 10 a.m. Dec. 10, after she knew she was a suspect in a murder case.

    “She was acting kind of hyper,” Hoberg said. “She was really moving around a lot, with a lot of exaggerated movements. But there was no crying or anything like that.”

    Leonard also said he would also rule later on news media requests for television and still cameras in the courtroom during McAnulty’s trial, though he permitted both at Thursday’s proceeding. In a hearing on the issue, Hadley objected to cameras during the trial, saying they could intimate witnesses.

    Leonard said he expected at a minimum to prohibit cameras when minors testified. Lawyers for both sides said they expected testimony from young friends of the victim, and possibly from her younger half-siblings.

    http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms...rial-judge.csp

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    Murderer to address jury weighing death penalty

    Angela McAnulty cried during the final testimony when her aunt, Patricia Linn, testified she would keep in contact with McAnulty until "the day she died."

    McAnulty faces the death penalty or life in prison for the December 2009 murder of her 15-year-old daughter, Jeanette Maples.

    McAnulty's defense rested justed after 11 a.m. The court is in recess until 1:15 p.m.

    Earlier in the day, Sister Carol Lee, a chaplain at the Lane County Jail, tesified that McAnulty's behavior has changed while she's been in jail.

    Lee said more recently, McAnulty appeared remoresful and sorry.

    Cynthia Young, a mental health specialist at the Lane County Jail, echoed Lee's testimony. Young said McAnulty started taking medication a few months after she went to jail. After that, Young testified McAnulty was able to focus better and was less depressed.

    Another of McAnulty's aunts, Alice White, also took the stand. She tesified that her niece's abusive upbringing caused McAnulty to abuse her daughter. White said McAnulty didn't have a strong enough mind to put the abuse behind her.

    McAnulty's lawyers said their client will make a statement to the jury when court reconvenes after lunch.

    Both sides will then give their closing arguements.

    The judge will then give the jury instructions and they will decide McAnulty's sentence. They must consider the following questions:

    * Was McAnulty's conduct that caused Maple's death deliberate? Did she deliberately kill Maples?
    * Will she be a danger to scociety?
    * Did McAnulty kill her daughter without being provoked?

    If the jurors unanimously answer yes to those three questions, they must answer the next question:

    * Should the death sentence be imposed?

    If the jury does not decide to sentence McAnulty to death, they will then have to decide if there are any circumstances in McAnulty's life or mental state that would mean she deserves the possibilty of parole after 30 years in prison.

    Judge dismisses juror

    The trial started with 15 jurors, leaving the court three alternates.

    However, the judge dismissed one juror on Tuesday after the juror made comments about his opinion about the outcome of the trial with other members of the jury.

    The dismissed juror also told other members of the jury he watched news coverage of the trial, which is against the rules for jury members.

    http://www.kval.com/news/local/116754114.html

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    McAnulty to appear in adoption trial

    A convicted murderer will return to a Lane County courtroom for an upcoming trial that will determine whether his son may be put up for adoption.

    Although an attorney for Richard McAnulty said her client does not want to appear as a witness during the juvenile court trial, Judge Charles Zennaché ruled Monday that the Eugene man will have to be present during the proceedings.

    Attorneys representing the state Department of Justice’s civil enforcement child advocacy program have subpoenaed McAnulty, 42, to testify during the trial.

    The state is seeking to terminate the parental rights of both Richard McAnulty and his wife, Angela McAnulty, so that their 8-year-old son may be eligible for adoption.

    Last April, Richard McAnulty pleaded guilty to murder by abuse for failing to protect a stepdaughter — 15-year-old Jeanette Maples — from being tortured by her mother. He must serve at least 25 years of his life prison term for his role in the crime.

    Angela McAnulty, 43, is on Oregon’s death row, awaiting the execution that a jury deemed appropriate punishment for her admitted torture and murder of Jeanette.

    Richard and Angela McAnulty have not agreed to give up their parental rights voluntarily, attorneys said Monday in court.

    Angela McAnulty has not been subpoenaed to appear at the upcoming trial.

    State law generally requires the Department of Human Services to ask a judge to terminate parental rights when a mother or father has been convicted of murdering another one of their children.

    The 8-year-old boy at the center of the upcoming trial is the sole biological child of both Richard and Angela McAnulty. The boy is living with a foster family.

    Angela McAnulty also is the biological parent of a daughter who lived with her and Richard McAnulty in their home off River Road before their arrests following Jeanette’s death in December 2009.

    Jeanette’s younger sister is living with a foster family, and told a judge in August that she did not want to be adopted.

    http://www.registerguard.com/web/upd...ngela.html.csp
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    Angela McAnulty pleads guilty

    Although she still could receive the death penalty, Angela McAnulty pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to aggravated murder for killing her 15-year-old daughter in late 2009.

    The 42-year-old north Eugene woman began her murder trial by pleading guilty to causing Jeanette Marie Maples’ death by neglect and maltreatment “in the course of and as a result of intentional maiming and torture.”

    A Lane County jury being selected this week will still decide her punishment, however.

    McAnulty also pleaded guilty to destroying or altering physical evidence in the case.

    Her husband, Richard McAnulty, is also charged with aggravated murder in the case, but prosecutors have said they will not seek the death penalty for him based on their investigation of his role in the case.

    http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms...ath-murder.csp

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    Jury to begin deliberations

    A Lane County jury will begin deliberating this afternoon whether to impose the death penalty on a River Road mother who fatally tortured and starved 15-year-old Jeanette Marie Maples in 2009.

    Angela McAnulty’s aunt told a jury today that she believes her niece fatally abused her daughter in part because the convicted killer “did not have a strong enough mind” to overcome damage from her own childhood, which included the murder of her mother and abuse by her father.

    “I believe my niece suffers from a serious mental defect,” Alice White told jurors. Under questioning by prosecutor Erik Hasselman, she acknowledged that medical experts failed to find evidence that McAnulty suffers from a serious mental illness, but White said she still believes so, nonetheless.

    “I believe for someone to do what she did to Jeanette, they would have to have some kind of mental defect,” the California woman testified.

    http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms...eves-death.csp

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    Convicted Eugene couple give up custody of son

    The Eugene couple convicted last year in the torture death of a daughter have given up custody of their 8-year-old son.

    Attorneys for Angela and Richard McAnulty told a Lane County Juvenile Court hearing on Wednesday that they now support finding a permanent home for the boy.

    The Register-Guard reports (http://is.gd/8P69t4) the move clears the way for the boy to be adopted. He has been in temporary foster care.

    Angela McAnulty is on death row after pleading guilty to aggravated murder in the torture, abuse and starvation death of 15-year-old Jeanette Maples in 2009. Richard McAnulty is serving a life prison sentence after pleading guilty to murder by abuse.

    http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/usa...xt|FRONTPAGE|s
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    Jury selection to conclude

    Jury selection is expected to continue through next Tuesday or Wednesday in Angela Darlene Mc*Anulty’s death penalty murder case.

    The North Eugene woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to the December 2009 murder of her 15-year-old daughter Jeanette Marie Maples by neglect, maiming and torture.

    McAnulty’s defense attorneys and the Lane County District Attorney’s Office are examining potential jurors for a panel that will hear evidence and decide her fate.

    The process takes longer than for other types of cases because jurors must be willing to consider imposing one of three penalties: death; life in prison with no possibility of parole; and life in prison with the chance to seek parole after 30 years.

    http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms...ract-davis.csp

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    Jury Finishes Deliberations in McAnulty Case

    The jury in Angela McAnulty's capital murder trial just finished their deliberations about whether to give her the death penalty or life in prison.

    They'll announce the sentence by p.m. Thursday.

    Prosecutors want McAnulty to get the death penalty for the way she beat, tortured and eventually killed her 15-year-old daughter Jeanette Maples.

    But McAnulty's defense team argued she's not a threat to society, so she should serve life in prison.

    http://kezi.com/news/local/205427

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    State to place brother of murdered teen Jeanette Maples with potential adoptive family

    The state has found potential adoptive parents for a Lane County boy whose mother is on death row and whose father is serving a life prison term for the murder of the boy’s half-sister.

    A child protective services caseworker told a judge Tuesday that a couple in another part of Oregon have expressed interest in adopting the younger half-brother of Jeanette Maples, who died of starvation and abuse Dec. 9, 2009. The boy, now a third grader, has been a ward of the court since age five. Caseworkers took him into state custody the same night paramedics responded to a report of cardiac arrest at the family’s River Road home and found 15-year-old Jeanette fatally starved and battered.

    A jury convicted their mother, Angela McAnulty, of aggravated murder and decided she should die by lethal injection for intentionally maiming and torturing Jeanette. Richard McAnulty, the boy’s father, pleaded guilty to murder by abuse for failing to protect his stepdaughter. He is serving a sentence of 25 years to life.

    Both parents have relinquished their parental rights to their son. Attorneys for each told Lane County Juvenile Court Judge Eveleen Henry Tuesday that their clients support adoption as a way to provide the permanency that’s best for their son.

    http://www.registerguard.com/web/upd...henry.html.csp
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