Tyler Teeter
Assignment 3-1 Weekly Analysis
Feb 15, 2008
The Bobby Cutts Jr. Sentencing
Back in the early summer of 2007 a Canton city cop was arrested for the murder of his estranged lover and pregnant mistress. The case has brought national media attention to the area where I live for the past eight months and today, Feb 15, 2008 Bobby Cutts Jr. was found guilty on all counts of murder and child endangerment, the abuse of a corpse and aggravated murder of the fetus. They found hi guilty beyond a reasonable doubt on all charges and his sentencing will begin on Feb 25, 2008. The evidence was stacked so high against him that it seems it would have been impossible for him to get off the hook. He had motive because the pregnant mistress would be carrying his fourth child that he would have to pay child support. Other testimonies and evidence also put the “nails in the coffin” for Bobby Cutts Jr. The couple's 2 1/2-year-old son, Blake, who was found home alone, gave investigators their first clues to his mother's disappearance when he said, "Mommy's crying. Mommy broke the table. Mommy's in the rug," and, later, "Daddy's mad," (SHEERAN).
I was driving down the road today about ½ mile from the courthouse where the verdict was about to come out while I was on my way home from school and heard the readings from the Judge live over the radio. Canton is a rather smaller city and news like this is the gossip of every restaurant at the noon lunch hour. As for myself, I must say that I am glad that the case has come to a close and the guilty verdict with beyond a reasonable doubt has been proven and secured. It is now up to the courts to decide upon his sentencing and hopefully they can keep the cold blooded killer behind bars for life or possibly give him the death penalty for the two live he took of a pregnant woman and a fetus that had no chance at life, a fetus which would be his own daughter, a fetus whom had no way to defend itself.
Reference
THOMAS J. SHEERAN, Associated Press Writer
Retrieved on Feb 15, 2008 from, http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080215/ap_on_re_us/pregnant_woman_dead