Prosecutor lays out strategies to jury in Honey Jordan trial
Prosecutors in the Hannah "Honey" Jordan murder trial presented two ways that jurors can reach guilty verdicts Thursday morning in the 2001 deadly shooting of the wife of a well-known neurosurgeon.
During his closing arguments to the jury, Deputy District Robert Bulloch told jurors that prosecutors have presented two possible strategies for reaching guilty verdicts in the trial for defendant Hector Miguel Aguirre.
"There is no dispute in this case that Honey Jordan was murdered," Bulloch said, adding that authorities and lawyers in the case view it more as a "who-dunnit."
Jordan was shot and killed as she tried to leave a Highland Avenue doughnut shop in her car on New Years Eve 2001.
The prosecution has presented evidence proving the felony murder rule, meaning that the murder was committed during the commission of a felony crime. In this case, Jordan was killed during a carjacking, the prosecutor explained.
Additionally, evidence has shown that the defendant committed the crimes with express malice by the way the shooting was conducted: through a car window at close range. Close enough that gun powder from the weapon burned Jordan's face, Bulloch said.
The shooting happened when Jordan made the fateful decision as she got into her Chrysler 300M saw her attacker coming towards her.
"And that decision was to stand her ground and not give up her car," Bulloch said. "She closed the door, and then the fight was on."
Witnesses say after the shooter fired at Jordan, he yanked her body from the vehicle and drove off. One witness was worried Jordan might get run over by her own car as it left the parking lot, prosecutors say.
Bulloch is expected to continue his closing argument at 1:30 p.m., and then defense lawyer Speros Maniates will get a chance to address the jury. Bulloch will then give a rebuttal.
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