A woman with an alleged history of threatening people will stand trial in murder-for-hire case. Munir Uwaydah, a Southern California doctor and businessman. Park was allegedly employed by Uwaydah as an enforcer on two other occasions, according to court papers. Redding, 21, had moved to Los Angeles from Arizona, hoping to pursue a career in modeling and acting. Kelly Soo Park was acquitted by a jury in of the murder of Juliana Redding.
Redding, a Santa Monica College student and aspiring model and actress, was found beaten and strangled to death in a Santa Monica bungalow.
Gilmore was eventually convicted of domestic violence against Ayala. After the conversation, Ayala backed out of testifying. On Tuesday, 9 th Circuit Court judges ruled the fact Park was eventually acquitted did not bar her from suing over violations of her rights during the underlying criminal investigation and prosecution.
Munir Uwaydah, another former boyfriend of Redding who fled the country before the trial. Despite the DNA evidence linking Park to the scene, the jury found it was not enough to put Park behind bars. The doctor is still at large and Park is out on bail. Friday, November 12, Columns Featured News Noteworthy Opinion. Whatever happened, investigators were now clearly focused on Dr. Uwaydah even though the mysterious DNA at the crime scene was female and Uwaydah was out of the country at the time of the murder.
Kelly Soo Park, 47, was a licensed real estate broker, born and educated in Southern California. She was an employee of Dr.
The prosecution theory These two women absolutely, positively did not know one another. There was no connection between them except Dr. What do they find? Kelly Soo Park may have been hired by Munir Uwaydah in a Ogden was brokering a multimillion-dollar commercial real estate deal with Dr. Uwaydah when, she says, Uwaydah used Kelly Soo Park and several other women as intimidators.
She says she felt they were pressuring her to come to their terms. She never did. Ogden told her story to police, but prosecutors thought they had stronger examples of Park working as muscle and presented two others in court documents, including one with a banker named Jerry Lukiewski. Uwaydah to scare her and her father back into that broken business deal. Armed with the back story of Kelly Soo Park as Dr.
Someone paid her bail, but prosecutors were unable to prove what they believed: that Dr. Uwaydah supplied the money.
There is no doubt though that he transferred other money to Park. What was she, a real estate broker? Did she do some work on the side for him? But Kelly Soo Park will face her trial alone.
Two days after she was arrested, Dr. Munir Uwaydah vanished. He was believed to be over 7, miles away in Beirut. Nearly three years would pass before Kelly Soo Park faced trial.
Alan Jackson, the original prosecutor, moved on to private practice. He was replaced by Stacy Weise. Before trial, there were two critical decisions from the court: one hurt the prosecution, the other hurt the defense. It is a significant setback, but the defense is also dealt a blow when the judge disallows one of its strongest arguments. The investigators were very comfortable. They have to show that there was more than just a motive, more than just an opportunity. The prosecution opened with what many believed was an unimpeachable DNA case.
In his closing argument, Beuhler proposed an entirely new theory of the crime, complete with a mysterious killer.
Lents explained, holding a beaker. That would be called a secondary transfer. Lents explained. Uwaydah has a motive to do this Park may have 3 inches and 40 pounds on Ms. Now, they would wait another seven long days for the jury to render its verdict.
Would you have ever, in your wildest dreams imagined that it would have been an acquittal? Photos: Juliana Redding. Meihls is president of a company called Trial Partners. So we had to have another story about DNA. What turned out to matter in this case was the alternate theory put forth by the defense: their story about DNA transfer. You thought it was possible that all that DNA could be casually transferred, door knobs and stove knobs and the neck and the clothes and the telephone?
And to find that kind of person, Meihls turned to popular TV crime shows. She asked jurors which shows they liked the best. But there were other shows that signaled to the consultant that those potential jurors might favor the prosecution.
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