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    Vincent Jackson, Jr. Sentenced to Life in Prison in 2008 OH Slaying of Qiana Walton


    Qiana Walton


    June 16, 2008

    Murder suspect arraigned today in Elyria

    A 27-year-old Chicago man accused of robbing and killing a woman clerk in Elyria over the weekend was arraigned this morning.

    Vincent W. Jackson Jr., 27, is charged with aggravated murder and aggravated robbery. He is being held without bond and is due back in Elyria Municipal Court next week.

    Sales clerk Qiana Walton, 27, was shot at 12:30 a.m. Saturday at Gas USA on Middle Avenue.

    Detectives said they have video that shows Jackson entering the station with a gun. It shows Walton cooperating with the robber and handing him money, right before he shot her in the head.

    About 7:30 a.m. Saturday, police went to Jackson's sister's house on West Avenue and found him hiding in the attic. Holding his sister's 4-year-old and 4-month-old children hostage, he stayed in the attic for four hours before surrendering.

    The children were not injured. Police confiscated a gun.

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    Court nixes appeal of judge’s decision on witness list in Gas USA slaying

    ELYRIA — The 9th District Court of Appeals ruled Monday that it had “improvidently granted” and would decline to rule on a request from Lorain County prosecutors seeking to challenge a county judge’s decision on how a list of people who testified before the grand jury in the case of accused killer Vincent Jackson Jr. should be handled.

    Attorneys for Jackson — who could get the death penalty if convicted of gunning down Qiana Walton with an AK-47 at Gas USA in Elyria during a June 14, 2008, robbery — had asked for the creation of such a list, but the appeals court wrote that county Common Pleas Judge James Miraldi didn’t order prosecutors to give it to defense lawyers.

    Instead, the appeals court wrote, Miraldi ordered prosecutors to give him a copy of the list.

    Prosecutors asked Miraldi to reconsider, and he declined to change his mind, ordering prosecutors to “provide a list of witnesses who testified at the grand jury. The list will be sealed and kept by the court and made part of the record in this case.”

    Prosecutors appealed Miraldi’s decision, saying that he had granted the request to disclose the list, although prosecutors didn’t attach a copy of the decision they were appealing, the appeals court wrote.

    “From what the State wrote in its motion for leave to appeal and from the documents attached to that motion, it appeared that the trial court had directed the state to disclose the grand jury witness names to Mr. Jackson,” the appeals court wrote. “Upon review of the entire record, however, it is clear that is not what the trial court ordered.”

    County Prosecutor Dennis Will said the issue prosecutors were trying to address was not who received the list, but rather that the list never should have been ordered to be turned over in the first place.

    The concern prosecutors had raised in their argument to Miraldi to deny the request for the list was that Jackson’s lawyers, who at the time were Anthony Rich and Joseph Grunda, hadn’t demonstrated a need to know who testified before the grand jury.

    Will said the issue was preserving the secrecy of grand jury proceedings. In order for a defendant to have access to what happens behind the closed doors of the grand jury, their attorneys need to demonstrate a legitimate need for the information, something that Will said rarely happens.

    “There’s a process in place that protects the integrity of the grand jury process and that’s the court reporter for the grand jury,” Will said.

    The appeals court also noted in its decision that while prosecutors told Miraldi they would have to investigate his court reporter — who would hold the sealed copy of the list — if the list got out and something happened to one of the witnesses in the case, they didn’t raise the issue in their appeal.

    Will said that the more people who have access to the information, the greater the chance that it could be compromised.

    The only concern prosecutors, the appeals court wrote, detailed in the appeal would be that Miraldi shouldn’t have granted the request and might do so again in another death penalty case. While at the time of the appeal, Miraldi did have pending capital murder cases before him, those cases have since been resolved.

    The appeals court also noted that there also was a dispute over whether prosecutors could legally appeal Miraldi’s order because Jackson hasn’t gone to trial yet, they didn’t address the issue because they shouldn’t have allowed the appeal for other reasons.

    Meanwhile, Jackson has complained that Rich and Grunda were “committing an injustice and keeping me in the dark” in their handling of the evidence against him, according to a letter he sent to Miraldi earlier this year.

    Miraldi granted a request from Grunda to withdraw from the case, but Rich remains Jackson’s attorney. He declined to comment on any dispute with his client. Will also declined to discuss the issue.

    http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2...s-usa-slaying/

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    Vincent Jackson's competency to be examined for murder trial

    A medical update about murder suspect Vincent Jackson will be given to Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Miraldi Oct. 15 to see if Jackson is competent to stand trial.

    Jackson, 27, of Elyria, suffered a stroke Aug. 5 at the Lorain County jail. He also suffered a brain clot resulting in not being able speak. He was taken to Cleveland MetroHealth Medical Center and was released three weeks ago, according to defense attorney J. Anthony Rich.

    Jackson is accused of shooting to death Gas USA clerk Qiana Walton, 27, in June 2008. Elyria police said Jackson shot Walton with an AK-47 assault rifle and robbed the 824 Middle Ave. gas station of $12,000. Following a tip, police tracked Jackson to an attic of a house at 1020 West Ave., where he held two children hostage before surrendering after about four hours.

    He is charged with aggravated murder, aggravated robbery, felonious assault, tampering with evidence and having weapons under disability and faces the death penalty. There is a tentative trial date of April 1, 2013, Rich said.

    Rich said Jackson has the classic issues affiliated with a stroke such as speech impairment and processing what he hears.

    “The legal issue is the defendant has to be able to assist with his own defense,” Rich said.

    “Potential issues with a stroke is you could possibly get paralysis or partial paralysis,” he said. “It’s incumbent that he is medically cleared.”

    Jackson is receiving post stroke rehabilitation, according to Rich, and the medical concern is that after the first stroke, the likelihood of another one increases.

    Rich did say that Jackson has been able to communicate with him and co-counsel Dan Wightman, but he added it is up to the doctors as to what level he can communicate.

    If the doctors rule Jackson can stand trial and the attorneys do not agree, they can challenge the decision, Rich said, and have an independent review.

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    Vincent Jackson's murder trial delayed, potential issues arise

    By Kaylee Remington, The Morning Journal

    ELYRIA — Vincent Jackson has waived his right to a jury trial and plans to plead guilty to aggravated murder and other charges to a three-judge panel stemming from the killing of 27-year-old Gas USA clerk Qiana Walton in 2008.

    Lorain County Probate Judge James Walther, who is the presiding judge, drew cards to determine who would serve with Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Miraldi. The panel must unanimously accept Jackson’s plea and also must decide whether Jackson, 33, would be executed, which must be unanimous.

    But during the process, problems were found, which Miraldi said until they figure it out, the case will have no further dates set until the panel is finalized.

    Walther drew the cards of Common Pleas Judge Raymond Ewers and Common Pleas Judge James Burge. It was learned that Ewers is on vacation, which brought up the next judge, which is Mark Betleski.

    Burge had recently recused himself from any cases Assistant County Prosecutor Tony Cillo was handling.

    Walther spoke with Burge, who said he didn’t recuse himself from sitting on a three-judge panel and is willing and able to do that.

    But Cillo had objections to Burge sitting on the panel and stated that he would request to the Ohio Supreme Court that Burge be taken off the panel. Cillo also brought up a potential conflict with Burge, who may be still connected with 600 Broadway in Lorain, which is where Jackson’s attorney, Anthony Rich’s offices are located.

    Burge had once owned that building and sold it to another attorney. That attorney had lost the building, Cillo said during the hearing.

    Cillo said he is not sure who Rich pays rent to and said that if Burge is still connected to the building it may be a potential conflict in the case.

    Rich said after the hearing that Burge once practiced in those offices, but they both have never practiced in the offices together. He also stated that there has never been a conflict until Cillo brought it up.

    Rich said he has done cases in Burge’s courtroom for seven years and said that there is no reason there should be a conflict.

    “To bring it up at this time is very juvenile,” he said.

    Jackson’s attorneys in a Tuesday hearing argued that it would cost more for Jackson to be put on death row and executed than to serve life in prison.

    Miraldi said Wednesday that he didn’t believe that he had the legal authority to accept Jackson’s guilty plea just by himself, which prompted him to make them decide if Jackson wants to go in front of a panel of judges or move forward with the jury trial.

    Miraldi also stated to Jackson and his attorneys that he couldn’t plead guilty and then let a jury decide whether he should be executed. He added that once you waive a jury, you can’t use jury for one phase of the case.

    Jackson is accused of shooting to death Walton, 27, in Elyria in June 2008. Elyria police said Jackson shot Walton with an AK-47 assault rifle and stole $12,000 from the 824 Middle Ave. gasoline station.

    Following a tip, police tracked Jackson to an attic of a house at 1020 West Ave., where police said he held two children hostage before surrendering four hours later.

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    Burge removed from panel

    By Brad Dicken

    ELYRIA — Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge was removed Friday from a three-judge panel that is slated to consider a plea and sentence in the case of accused killer Vincent Jackson Jr.
    Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor wrote that because Burge in January removed himself from cases being handled by Assistant County Prosecutor Tony Cillo, the lead prosecutor on the Jackson case, he can’t sit on the panel.
    “Judge Burge has failed to sufficiently explain how the underlying matter is distinguishable from other cases in which Cillo appears as counsel,” O’Connor wrote.
    Burge has said he removed himself from Cillo’s cases because he believes prosecutors were wasting resources trying to get him kicked off Cillo’s cases. He later said that he thought some cases were being slowed down because both he and Cillo were involved. County Prosecutor Dennis Will has disputed both of those explanations.
    “Once Judge Burge had recused himself from all of Cillo’s cases, he could not then pick and choose, without reasonable justification, which cases to hear involving Cillo,” O’Connor wrote, although she added that Burge could withdraw his order removing himself from Cillo’s cases if the circumstances that led him to do so in the first place changed.
    Prosecutors also tried to remove Burge from Cillo’s case last year, but O’Connor largely rejected their arguments then, saying that there wasn’t enough evidence that Burge was biased against Cillo. She did, however, take Burge off the case of death row inmate Stanley Jalowiec, who had been seeking a new trial.
    Jackson’s trial was supposed to begin last month, but just before the lawyers were supposed to start picking a jury, Jackson agreed to take the case to a three-judge panel.
    His lawyers, J. Anthony Rich and Dan Wightman, have said he intended to plead guilty to aggravated murder and other charges in connection with the June 2008 shooting death of Gas USA clerk Qiana Walton during a robbery.
    The three-judge panel would be responsible for deciding whether to accept Jackson’s plea and if the death penalty should be imposed.
    But after Burge was selected by random draw to serve on the panel, alongside Judges Mark Betleski and Judge James Miraldi, who has been overseeing the case, prosecutors objected. When Burge refused to remove himself, Will took the matter to the Supreme Court.
    Burge has said he doesn’t have a bias against Cillo and argued that he would only be serving as a trier of fact and thus not be in a position to be unfair to Cillo. Both Will and O’Connor disagreed with that assessment.
    “Contrary to Judge Burge’s opinion, one judge’s role on a panel in a capital case is no less significant than a judge’s role in any other case,” O’Connor wrote.
    Burge said he will abide by O’Connor’s decision.
    “I’m satisfied with what the chief justice did,” he said.
    Probate Judge James Walther, the county’s presiding judge, on Friday named Common Pleas Judge John Miraldi, who is the cousin of Judge James Miraldi, to replace Burge on the panel.
    But Wightman said given the changes to the panel, he and Rich will need to discuss with Jackson whether they might now want to take the case to a jury rather than a panel of judges.
    “There’s certainly a possibility we’re going to reconsider the jury waiver under these circumstances,” he said.
    Will said he was pleased by O’Connor’s ruling and is ready for the case to resume.
    “We were comfortable in our arguments and I’m glad the case is going to move forward,” he said.
    But Rich said he and Wightman still need to examine their legal options and will need time to do that. He said a meeting on the case is scheduled for Monday, but he doesn’t want to pick a new trial date that begins immediately.
    “We’re not going to be forced by anybody to make a hasty decision by Monday,” he said.
    Friday’s decision didn’t address a second issue that cropped up as prosecutors fought to remove Burge from the Jackson case. They had argued that Burge has a conflict because Rich rents office space at 600 Broadway in Lorain.
    Burge’s offices were there before he took the bench and after a failed effort to sell the building when he became a judge in 2007, he relinquished his ownership stake to his wife, Susan Burge, in 2011. But prosecutors have questioned whether that is enough distance to prevent Burge from having a financial interest.
    They raised the question again last week when attorney Zachary Simonoff, who also keeps an office at 600 Broadway, appeared before Burge in an unrelated case. Simonoff, Rich and others have argued that there is nothing improper about attorneys with offices in the building appearing before Burge.
    Will said he believes it’s the responsibility of the defense attorneys to deal with the conflict, something Rich said he disagrees with.
    Rich said while he doesn’t see a conflict, prosecutors have effectively waived it because they never brought the issue up before last month. He had hoped O’Connor would have settled the matter in her decision.
    “Now that issue is stilling hanging out there, but it’s not going to change the way I practice law in court or in front of Judge Burge,” he said.
    The Supreme Court’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel is conducting an investigation into Burge’s ownership of the building.

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    Vincent Jackson Jr. pleads guilty in Gas USA robbery

    Vincent Jackson Jr. pleaded guilty this morning to aggravated murder and a string of other charges stemming from the June 2008 killing of Gas USA clerk Qiana Walton during a robbery.

    The three-judge panel hearing the case accepted Jackson’s guilty pleas to murder, aggravated robbery, felonious assault, tampering with evidence and having weapons under disability. However, they delayed taking action on the aggravated murder charges until a hearing scheduled for later this month.

    Although Jackson, 33, has pleaded guilty to the aggravated murder charges, he did not enter a guilty plea to a capital specification that could carry with it the death penalty. The judges will decide whether to find him guilty of that specification and if so, whether he should receive a death sentence.

    Unlike with the other charges, the panel of judges must hear evidence before they can find Jackson guilty of aggravated murder.

    Police determined that Jackson killed Walton after she cooperated with him during the robbery, turning over about $12,000 at gunpoint. He shot her once in the head with an AK-47 assault rifle.

    http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2...s-usa-robbery/
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    UPDATED: Vincent Jackson Jr. guilty; death penalty possible



    Callie Wood, a friend of Qiana Walton, hugs Anne Marie Victor of the Lorain County Prosecutor’s Office, after judges ruled Vincent Jackson Jr. was guilty of aggravated murder

    ELYRIA — A three-judge panel will consider execution as a possible sentence for Vincent Jackson Jr., who gunned down Qiana Walton during a 2008 robbery of the Elyria gas station where she worked.

    Lorain County Common Pleas judges James Miraldi, John Miraldi and Mark Betleski found Jackson, 33, guilty of aggravated murder with capital specifications that carry a possible death sentence during a hearing Wednesday. Jackson already had pleaded guilty to aggravated murder in the case, but because it is a capital case the judges had to review evidence to determine whether they should accept the plea.

    Jackson also had refused to plead guilty to the specifications, forcing prosecutors to present evidence showing that Walton was killed during an aggravated robbery — one of several other charges Jackson has already pleaded guilty to — and that Jackson pulled the trigger to prevent her from identifying him.

    “It has been a long time, six years,” Walton’s father, Robert Walton, said after the hearing. “It’s over, but it’s not over.”


    Vincent Jackson Jr., center, listens Wednesday as the verdict is read with his attorneys, Dan Wightman, left, and J. Anthony Rich.

    Jackson will be back in court April 1 for a hearing in which his lawyers will try to convince the judges to spare him and impose a life prison term.

    “We’ve got a strong case for mitigation and we’re prepared,” defense attorney Dan Wightman said as he left the Lorain County Justice Center, although he and fellow defense attorney J. Anthony Rich declined to discuss specifics.

    Janata Walton, Qiana Walton’s mother, said after the hearing that Jackson is only thinking about himself.

    “It seems like he’s been wiggling and squirming trying to get out of paying for what he’s done,” she said.

    The judges will be able to consider Jackson’s guilty plea in the case as a sign of remorse when they deliberate on whether he deserves death.

    And while defense attorneys will do their best to present Jackson in a sympathetic light, prosecutors will try to portray him as a killer who deserves the ultimate punishment.

    Jackson had completed an eight-year prison sentence in Illinois about a month before he robbed Gas USA shortly after midnight June 14, 2008. He was incarcerated in Illinois for shooting a man in the head during an argument, although the victim in that case survived.

    Jackson’s sister, Aja Jackson, who worked with Walton at Gas USA, testified during a brief trial Tuesday that Jackson had only moved to Elyria about two weeks before the robbery.

    Video evidence in the case showed Vincent Jackson in the store in the days leading up to the robbery, including one instance in which Qiana Walton waited on him.

    In a graphic video of the killing played multiple times during the trial, Walton re-enters the store she had closed moments before with Jackson, armed with an AK-47 assault rifle, behind her.

    Jackson demanded that Walton silence the store’s alarm and that she give him money. Prosecutors argued that Walton complied with all of Jackson’s demands, including filling a black plastic bag with about $12,000 in cash.

    The video shows Jackson step back, aim the rifle and fire a single shot into Walton’s head, dropping her instantly to the floor. He then called Walton a “bitch” and fled the store but was arrested several hours later following a brief standoff with police at his sister’s nearby home.

    Although the courtroom was packed with Walton’s friends and family Wednesday, no one showed up to support Jackson.

    Qiana Walton’s father said that once the family left the courthouse, they would head to his daughter’s gravesite to tell her the verdict. Robert Walton said the family still misses Qiana and thinks of her every day.

    Janata Walton said she wants closure in the case.

    “We just want our daughter to be able to rest in peace,” she said.

    http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2...avated-murder/
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    Vincent Jackson trial goes into mitigation phase

    Tears rolled down convicted killer Vincent Jackson Jr.’s face as he watched his 88-year-old grandmother give testimony about his life as a child through a live video during the mitigation phase of his case starting April 1.
    Lucille Jackson is serving time for bank fraud in a federal prison in Greenville, Ill.
    She testified that Jackson had trouble learning and was a nervous and hyperactive kid. He was prescribed medicine, but didn’t want it, she said.
    Jackson, 33, of Elyria, was found guilty last month of two counts of aggravated murder for the June 14, 2008 shooting death of Qiana Walton, 27, a Liberty Gas USA cashier.
    “He didn’t want to take the medicine,” Lucille Jackson said. “He didn’t want to be different.”
    She said she didn’t have any trouble with Jackson other than sending him off to school and him not wanting to go. Jackson had lived with her off and on.
    Lucille Jackson testified Jackson was never a violent person and was a loving grandson to her. But when the state asked if he ever stole from her, she admitted he stole two of her fur coats. It also was learned that he stole his grandfather’s tools.
    Lucille Jackson has been charged with multiple offenses, including criminal damaging, deceptive practice and forgery, according to testimony.
    The three-judge panel, which includes presiding Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Miraldi and Judges Mark Betleski and John Miraldi, began to hear mitigating factors. These factors are evidence that could result in a lesser sentence for Jackson, such as life in prison without parole. Jackson is facing the possibility of the death penalty in the case.
    Jackson was found guilty last month of two counts of aggravated murder for killing Walton with an AK-47 assault rifle and stealing $12,000. He also was found guilty of the aggravated circumstances attached to the charges.
    With the aggravated circumstances, the judges ruled that Jackson did commit the murder for the purpose of escaping detention, apprehension, trial or punishment. They also ruled that Jackson committed the murder while committing or attempting to commit an aggravated robbery as the principal offender.
    Jackson earlier pleaded guilty and was found guilty of murder, aggravated robbery, felonious assault, tampering with evidence and having weapons while under disability in the case.
    One of Jackson’s attorneys, Dan Wightman, stated to the court that throughout Jackson’s life he suffered from mental health issues, drug and substance abuse, family issues, poor academic achievement and exposure to gangs in Chicago, where he is from.
    Dr. John Fabian previously diagnosed Jackson with attention deficit hyperactive disorder, persistent depression disorder and anti-social personality disorder with paranoid traits, Wightman said.
    Wightman added that Jackson also has a history of exposure to guns by his father and uncle. The issues in Jackson’s life have put him at a greater risk of criminality, Wightman said.
    Christie Jackson, Jackson’s mother, testified that she was young and married when she had her children and didn’t know how to care for them. She also said that she was beaten by Jackson’s father, Vincent Jackson Sr. She testified that she used crack cocaine while Jackson was home and used to be a prostitute to get money for drugs, adding that she did this while Jackson lived with her.
    Christie Jackson stated she had attempted suicide while Jackson was there.
    “Matter of fact, he stopped me,” she said to the court.
    Christie Jackson testified that her daughter, Aja, has done well, which Assistant Lorain County Prosecutor Tony Cillo noted even in the same surroundings as Jackson.
    Vincent Jackson Sr., Jackson’s father, testified that Jackson got into gangs when he was about 10 or 11 years old. He took his son to get a new coat once and showed him a red one. But Jackson wanted a blue and black coat, which were the colors of a gang called Gangster Disciples, the elder Jackson testified.
    The elder Jackson testified that Jackson Jr. didn’t get along with his second wife and would steal her jewelry. He also found items in his room that indicated abuse of drugs.
    “I never caught him using drugs, but there were clues,” he said.
    When Jackson Jr. was in kindergarten, the elder Jackson testified that his teacher called him and was disturbed about things Vincent said in class. Jackson Jr. had described how someone would freebase cocaine, the elder Jackson testified.
    “I almost dropped the phone,” he said. “That was significant for a 5-year-old kid to go to kindergarten and explain something like that.”
    The elder Jackson choked up when speaking of his son now.
    “I do miss my son, I just, if I had an opportunity to talk to him, I don’t know what I would say,” he said. “I want to ask him, I want to hold him, I want to ask him, ‘What’s going on with you, man?’

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    Vincent Jackson Jr. case: Mitigation still going, psychologist testifies

    Dr. John Fabian testified that convicted killer Vincent Jackson Jr., 33, had an unstable life since he was young.

    Fabian, a forensic psychologist and neurological psychologist, testified during the mitigation phase (hearing) April 2 that he has met with Jackson seven times since he was appointed to evaluate him in December 2012.

    Fabian testified that Jackson’s mother, Christie Jackson, was low-functioning, bipolar and showed a lot of mental health issues. He added that she is a “very chaotic woman” and was a high-risk teenage mother.

    He reiterated that she used to perform prostitution for drugs and used to buy drugs from Jackson.

    Jackson, of Elyria, was found guilty last month of two counts of aggravated murder for the June 14, 2008, shooting death of Qiana Walton, 27, a Liberty Gas USA cashier. He used an AK-47 assault rifle and stole $12,000 during the robbery.

    Jackson also was found guilty of the aggravated circumstances attached to the charges.

    With the aggravated circumstances, a panel of three Lorain County Common Pleas Court judges ruled that Jackson did commit the murder for the purpose of escaping detention, apprehension, trial or punishment. They also ruled that Jackson committed the murder while committing or attempting to commit an aggravated robbery as the principal offender.

    Jackson earlier pleaded guilty and was found guilty of murder, aggravated robbery, felonious assault, tampering with evidence and having weapons while under disability in the case.

    Fabian also said Jackson’s grandmother, Lucille Jackson, played a part in his upbringing.

    Lucille Jackson was manipulative and had a lot of scams going on in her life, Fabian said.

    Fabian found that Jackson didn’t get the care of his mother that a primary caregiver should give.

    “There’s a lot of anti-social practices in this home,” Fabian said. “This woman was not available.”

    Lucille Jackson told Fabian during an interview that Christie Jackson would drop off her children, Aja, Tiffany and Vincent, at her house when she didn’t feel like taking care of them.

    Lucille Jackson, 88, who is serving time in federal prison, admitted to her crimes, but minimized them, Fabian testified. Her husband, Sydney Jackson, 94, seemed to have his “head in the sand” when it came to Lucille Jackson’s crimes, Fabian added.

    Neither Christie Jackson nor Vincent Jackson Sr. were ready to have children, Fabian said, and the domestic violence and drug/substance abuse affected their son.

    The hearing will continue April 8 with the state’s expert, followed by Jackson himself, according to Judge James Miraldi’s office.

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