{"id":38121,"date":"2022-12-22T14:14:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T14:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/22\/shocking-verdict-in-trial-of-woman-accused-of-killing-stepfather-over-nude-photos\/"},"modified":"2022-12-22T14:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T14:14:58","slug":"shocking-verdict-in-trial-of-woman-accused-of-killing-stepfather-over-nude-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/22\/shocking-verdict-in-trial-of-woman-accused-of-killing-stepfather-over-nude-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking Verdict In Trial Of Woman Accused Of Killing Stepfather Over Nude Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>A verdict has been reached within the case in opposition to <strong>Jade Janks<\/strong> \u2014 and it\u2019s fully taken her without warning.<\/p>\n<p>As we reported earlier this month, Janks was accused of planning her stepdad <strong>Thomas Merriman<\/strong>\u2018s homicide after she <a href=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/woman-allegedly-killed-stepfather-nude-photos-his-computer-jade-janks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discovered her personal nude photographs from a decade prior on his laptop<\/a>. Prosecutors say she poisoned him with sleeping drugs then suffocated him.<\/p>\n<p>The case was fairly sturdy \u2014 particularly on account of messages Janks despatched to mates saying issues like \u201cI just dosed the hell out of him\u201d and \u201cI am about to club him on the head as he is waking up.\u201d It\u2019s like she gave them the play-by-play.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old took the stand on Friday and stated the messages \u2014 by which she requested for assist hiding a physique \u2014 have been \u201ctaken out of context\u201d. However, beneath oath she did admit to \u201ccovering up\u201d her stepfather\u2019s demise, claiming he took too many prescription drugs by mistake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/teresa-giudice-advice-prison-todd-chrisley-bank-fraud-tax-evasion-julie-chrisley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Related: Teresa Giudice\u2019s Prison Advice For Todd &amp; Julie Chrisley!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday the jury returned with their choice \u2014 Janks was discovered responsible of the primary diploma homicide of the 64-year-old after solely someday of deliberation. She faces 25 years to life and will likely be again in court docket on April 3 for her listening to.<\/p>\n<p>After the decision was learn, Janks appeared shocked and whipped her head round to her lawyer. It undoubtedly appears to be like like she wasn\u2019t anticipating it! There was loads of proof, however we guess perhaps she felt just like the circumstances would get her extra sympathy than they did?<\/p>\n<p>You can see the precise second she heard the decision (under):<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"lYMbj7zyrVc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Verdict read in trial of Jade Janks who was accused of killing her stepdad\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lYMbj7zyrVc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Reactions, Perezcious readers? Were you as shocked as she was?? Let us know within the feedback (under)!<\/p>\n<p class=\"image_cite\"><em>[Image via <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">YouTube\/CBS 8 San Diego<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A verdict has been reached within the case in opposition to Jade Janks \u2014 and it\u2019s fully taken her without warning. As we reported earlier this month, Janks was accused of planning her stepdad Thomas Merriman\u2018s homicide after she discovered her personal nude photographs from a decade prior on his laptop. Prosecutors say she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}