JUSTICE FOR DELOREN
Date: Wed, Apr. 16, 2008
DeLoren Young a 19 year old college student home for Thanksgiving holiday in 2004 was shot and killed driving home from a nightclub in Washington, DC. The man that was arrested and charged with DeLoren's murder was arrested in October 2006, almost 2 years after the shooting. Trial for Joel Tillery was scheduled for November 2007, ironically around the same time that the shooting occured. The trial was a week or so long and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty of all charges.
Now, I was in that courtroom everyday, I heard all the evidence, I saw all the evidence and the case that the prosecutors presented was the same case that the streets had told 3 years earlier. There was no way that this person was going to walk out of that courtroom. I felt that justice had prevailed until the verdict was read, I just fell out.
The defendant presented to two witnesses, a passerby who had told several different stories throughout the three years and the defendant's mother whose only purpose was to discredit the prosecutor's main witness, but when the question was asked of the mother where was your son shot. Mind you this mother could not tell you where her son was shot but she could tell you who visited him in the hospital following the shooting.
There was a jury member who continusely asked the judge to release her from jury duty stating that she was afraid for her life. Did this fear pass on to the rest of the jury?? We will never know. Now I sit here angry because I can not face the fact that there is nothing that I can do, all of my legal options are gone, double jeopardy is attached and no attorney would help me if he/she could.
