She was a stockbroker, she used to joke and say when I went off to college, she would be 40, working on Wall Street, living in a sailboat on the harbor—obviously none of that got to happen. When I came to do the podcast with you, one of the things that I found in New York is that there is no one way to look or to dress or to talk. It can be a little intimidating. The city definitely moves a lot faster than the way of life down south. I found that New York offers so much more opportunity.
There are a lot more resources for someone with a felony conviction. I took an offered plea on the advice of my lawyers, thinking that I would get to maintain my innocence—and for some reason I thought that would be reflected in my record. It makes it really hard. Am I going to be perceived as this or that because I have a felony conviction? And when they run your name that stigma is on you.
I have not had that happen in New York so far, knock on wood. JF: What was the best and worst moment that you had in prison? NJ: There was one week out of every year when I felt like there was beauty and harmony in the prison and when I felt like we were making a difference and making the world a better place. In my situation, the Supreme Court overturned everything and all of a sudden I was getting ready to go home.
The most beautiful thing that I saw the whole time I was in there was seeing a mother hold their child and be able to share meals with them and even give a gift to them.
At the same time, the worst moment was seeing when that child had to leave. If I make it personal, the worst thing was being strip-searched repeatedly. No dignity whatsoever. Every time you went in and out of a building or back and forth to court, or back and forth to your job, you had to take your clothes off—not by yourself, but with five other people and with several officers standing behind you, and depending on who the officers were, they would make comments about women or their bodies or their marks.
And what's more, police found the Walgreens bag with the first aid products in plain sight in Noura's car. Corder continued, "Would she have left the bag in her car?
Maybe she meant to throw it away. Maybe she didn't think we would find out," Merritt said. Noura's supporters also couldn't believe police dismissed what could be an obvious answer to the question about who killed Jennifer.
Noura's father had been killed less than a year-and-a-half earlier. What if whoever had murdered him had struck again? Nazmi Hassanieh and Jennifer had divorced shortly after Noura was born. Nazmi was shot dead in the convenience store he owned in a rough part of town.
He was shot just out of range of the security camera. Police called it an assassination. The person that murdered him was looking for something specifically in his office," Frederick said. Police never caught the killer. After Nazmi's murder, Jennifer took control of his estate.
Her friend, Renea McMillan, wondered if Jennifer may have unwittingly become a target of Nazmi's enemies. According to Merritt, "We looked over the case and read over the case but could not make any type of connection. I think they wanted a quick fix," Frederick said.
It's just like a witch hunt. They turned her into a witch. Almost four years after her mother, Jennifer, was murdered, Noura Jackson's trial was finally under way. I wasn't there," Noura told Richard Schlesinger. She has always denied stabbing her mother to death. Noura, 21, faced a first-degree murder charge and the possibility of life in a penitentiary. Prosecutor Amy Weirich had never tried a case of matricide before. In fact it couldn't be rarer. Less than 2 percent of all the murders in America are matricides - a child killing their mother - and of those, just a fraction are committed by daughters.
Weirich had to convince jurors that this was one of those all-but-unheard-of cases. But if the jury's looking for much forensic evidence against Noura, Weirich was in a lot of trouble. Defense lawyer, Valerie Corder, questioned her thoroughly. Corder : Within all the items that you tested, the pillows Let's construct a case based upon a teenager's behavior,'" Corder told Schlesinger.
As the state presented its case, Noura sat quietly alone in court. Not one member of her family stood by her side. In fact, Cindy Eidson, Jennifer Jackson's sister and one of Noura's aunts, was a witness for the prosecution. She testified that Jennifer and Noura had a heated argument about Noura's drug use and party lifestyle just one week before the murder.
I'm sick of it. You're 18 years old and you're still in 11th grade, and partying all the time, and you've got - and I've just had it,'" Eidson said.
Noura's uncle testified that right before the murder Noura seemed unusually interested in what she might inherit if Jennifer died. When asked by the prosecution how the conversation came up, Sherwood said, "Noura asked Jennifer how it all worked. And that's hard to do because," she said with a pause, "Umm, I love him.
Her friends weren't doing Noura much good either. Kirby McDonald was the teen who said she overheard Noura curse her mother at a party just hours before the murder. Noura told police that she drove around after that party and didn't get home until 5 a. But prosecutors said phone records show Noura was in her home around the time of the murder.
Noura's friend, Clark Schifani, testified that at about 1 a. Seconds later, he got another call - this time from Noura's cell phone. Let's hang this up. Miller explained. But most of the prosecution's case is based on what Noura did after the murder; like that early morning trip to Walgreens. And why is she not telling anybody about it? Joe Cocke lived across the street. He said Noura woke him at 5 a. Somebody's breaking into my house! Cocke said he ran with Noura back to her house.
Sergeant Tim Helldorfer thought that was odd, too. Let the man with the gun go in first. She led the way. In the early hours of the investigation, Jennifer's friend, Genevieve Dix, noticed that Noura was acting strangely.
And she just stood there," Dix testified. Prosecutors argue that Noura was trying to cover up that cut on her hand. Remember, Noura said she got that cut the day before the stabbing, but several of her friends saw her at that party just hours before the murder. When asked in court if they recalled seeing a cut or bandage on her hands that night, they replied "No.
Witnesses said as time went on, Noura told several different stories about how she cut her hand. I burned it cooking macaroni and cheese,'" Grace France testified. What I told the police is what happened," she said. Corder challenged almost every detail of the state's case, including how investigators handled the hair found in Jennifer's hands.
Valerie Corder : And did you analyze the loose hair from the right hand? Corder : Did you analyze the hair from the left hand? Debman : No I did not. And Corder hammered Crime Scene Investigator David Payment for almost two days, suggesting he overlooked evidence pointing to someone else.
Valerie Corder : What is that in the entry hall? It's a cat isn't it? David Payment : Oh, yes it is. Corder : So a cat walked around the crime scene while you were in charge of it? Payment : Ah, yes ma'am Corder : So the cat may have left trace evidence?
Payment : The cat may have digested evidence. Corder clearly wanted the jury to conclude that the police bungled the investigation right from the start. And now Valerie Corder was about to question Jennifer's ex-boyfriend, whose relationship with Jennifer might have been just as volatile as Noura's.
As Noura Jackson's murder trial wound down, Jennifer's on-again off-again boyfriend, Pastor Mark Irvin, took the stand. And he scared me," Noura told Schlesinger. But in a move that surprised some, it was the prosecutor who called Irvin, hoping to dispel any suspicions about his involvement in Jennifer's murder. Irvin admitted that on the night of the murder, he called Jennifer.
But he claimed he was at home, 90 minutes away. Irvin said that he was asleep until 7 a. There's no verification of that," Corder tells Richard Schlesinger. When asked if she thinks he's a viable suspect, Corder replied, "I think he was an unusual man. Everyone agrees that Jennifer's relationship with him was quite turbulent. On cross examination, Corder tried to make what she could out of the problems with the relationship. But in the end, nothing came out at trial that linked Mark Irvin to Jennifer Jackson's murder.
After nine days, the prosecution rested. Noura never testified and Valerie Corder believed the state's case was so weak, she decided to rest without calling any witnesses. There was never any testimony about the murder of Noura's father. If the state hasn't met their burden of proof of proving this is the crime that was committed and this is the person that committed it, there is no defense to put be on Stepstool, bag, another pillow But Amy Weirich had the last word and she reminded the jury of that one burning question from the night of the murder that remains unanswered:.
Weirich tried to convince the jury one last time that, despite the lack of forensic evidence, this was one of the rarest of murders - that a daughter stabbed her mother to death. You know the picture we're talking about it," Weirich told jurors. It is the perfect storm that is brewed. It is the volcano that has erupted. It is the spring that has sprung. So who is Noura Jackson? Is she an innocent girl or a savage killer capable of stabbing her own mother to death and then lying about it?
It took nine hours for the jury to decide. They found Noura guilty of second-degree murder. As hard as it has been for them, it was the word Jennifer's family had waited to hear and the one Noura dreaded. Memphis police were hoping for first degree. Sergeant Tim Helldorfer voiced his disappointment.
I think one or two just couldn't sentence an year-old kid to jail for the rest of her life. You can't help but relive it every morning when you wake up," she said. Of course, almost all murders leave questions in their wake. But this one, a daughter convicted of matricide, has left even more frightening ones. I shutter to imagine what that would be like, to know that your attacker might well have been your daughter," Tobey said.
She lost her mother," Tobey continued. Murderpedia Juan Ignacio Blanco. Murder and trial During the early hours of June 5, Noura's year-old mother Jennifer Jackson was brutally murdered in her bedroom by being stabbed more than 50 times. A defense motion for a new trial will be heard by Craft on April Noura Jackson convicted of second-degree murder year-old faces 15 to 25 yearsbehind bars for matricide By Lawrence Buser - CommercialAppeal. Jones said, "The cover-up gave her up. No, I just got home.
Helldorfer said A coroner found no evidence of a sexual attack, but said Jennifer had been stabbed more than 50 times. But Helldorfer noticed something about that door didn't look right. The murder remains unsolved. On Saturday, June 4, Noura Jackson said she got her nails done during the day and then went out partying that night.
Noura Jackson said she had been drinking and smoking marijuana that night. Noura Jackson told police that at a. Her cellphone was quiet from 1 a. Authorities believe that Jennifer Jackson was killed between 1 a. A security camera recorded Jackson at 4 a. Arriving home at 5 a. This had happened before, Noura Jackson said, when her mother was locked out of their house.
Noura Jackson then went across the street to get a neighbor, and the two ran back to the house together.
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