Sandra cantu trial

She said when she got to the church and remembered, "she unzipped the case and the victim appeared to be lifeless. She said she also took a small towel, wet it, and placed it on her forehead to cool her off. Huckaby said she freaked out and didn't know what to do. She said then she decided to dump the suitcase in the pond. The prosecution summary of the case does not support that story. It says on March 28, Huckaby showed authorities a handwritten note she claimed she found in her trailer park that read: "Cantu locked in stolin suitcase thrown in water onn Bacchetti Rd.

It goes on to say after finding the suitcase on April 6, police searched the church in the neighborhood where Huckaby was a member and Sunday school teacher. They found a rolling pin with a bent handle and a bloody smudge. They also discovered one of the blinds was missing part of its draw cord, which and FBI expert determined to be consistent with cord used to tie shut the suitcase. The San Joaquin County pathologist determine Sandra Cantu suffered a cut to her lower inner lip and an abrasion on her left elbow.

She also had injuries to external genitalia that were consistent with the diameter of the rolling pin handles. He listed cause of death "homicidal asphyxiation. It was soiled with blood and knotted into a noose. Chavez said in her declaration that her family has no desire to know the specifics surrounding Sandra's kidnapping and murder.

A former Sunday school teacher, Huckaby, 29, faces 25 years to life in prison without the possibility of parole when she is sentenced June Legal experts have said the judge could be waiting to lift the orders until after sentencing. The incident drew national attention after a day search for Sandra -- a playmate of Huckaby's daughter -- ended when her body was found stuffed in a black suitcase pulled from an irrigation pond a few miles from a mobile home park where they lived.

Huckaby was arrested less than a week later after telling a reporter that the suitcase that contained Sandra's body was hers, but that it had been stolen out of her driveway the day Sandra disappeared. One hearing that was canceled this week was a request by Huckaby's lawyers to exhume Sandra's body for a second autopsy. The request was dropped earlier this week. Public defender Peter Fox told the San Francisco Chronicle that the deputy public defender handling the case was told by the county's chief medical examiner "the relevant samples" for the defense to conduct independent tests to determine whether the girl had been raped "were preserved" and were not interred with the girl's body in a mausoleum.

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