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Couey Guilty Of Lunsford Kidnap, Rape, Murder

http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/2007/030707CoueyGuilty.html
MIAMI
A convicted sex offender has been found guilty of kidnapping, raping and murdering
9-year-old girl Jessica Lunsford by burying her alive in two black plastic trash
bags.
Following four hours of deliberations Wednesday, a jury found that John Evander
Couey, 48, had killed the child after he snatched her from her bedroom about 150
yards from a trailer where Couey was living. She was suffocated and was found
clutching a purple stuffed dolphin.
The jury will remain sequestered through the penalty phase, which begins Tuesday,
when they will recommend if Couey should be sentenced to death.
Couey had admitted to investigators after his arrest that he had committed the crime
but the confession was inadmissible at trial because although he had requested a
lawyer, police questioned him without him having legal counsel.
DNA evidence from Jessica's blood and Couey's semen from a mattress in his bedroom
was presented at trial. In addition, her fingerprints were found in a closet in
Couey's trailer.
Corrections officers and investigators testified during the trial that Couey had
admitted killing the child but said he didn't mean to kill her.
As a result of Jessica's murder, many states, including New York and Florida, enacted
new laws relating to the registration of sex offenders and tracking of them through
databases and satellite tracking devices.
New York's Jessica's Law provides for up to life sentences for the most heinous sex
crimes, those where the perpetrator harmed the victim, threatened the use of a
weapon, committed the crime against multiple victims or was previously convicted of a
felony sex crime. Adults convicted of serious sex crimes in which the victim is under
the age of 13 could spend the rest of their lives in prison, regardless of any other
aggravating circumstance
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