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Anyway——I do not smoke or drink. My mother was an alcoholic, so I limit my drinking to one or two a week. Mark wants me to drink more——with him in the evenings. I don't. I would never take my life because of my kids——they are everything to me! I regularly take
Tylenol multi-vitamins; occasionally
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I took this picture am writing this on
Saturday 11-21-98 at 7AM. This "list" was in my husband's business daily planner——not meant for me to see, I don't know what it means, but if anything happens to me, he would be my first suspect. Our relationship has deteriorated to the polite superficial. I
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Prosecutors decided to retry Jensen for the murder of his wife in
January 2016. On September 1, 2017, Kenosha Circuit Judge Chad Kerkman reinstated Mark Jensen's conviction. On February 26, 2020, Wisconsin's Court of Appeals, District II, issued a summary disposition reversing Judge Kerkman's
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for information relating to poison. The prosecution contended also that Jensen remained angry over his wife's brief affair in 1991 with co-worker Perry Tarica. The letter's use by the prosecutors was controversial, because such evidence has been blocked from court for years by strict
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Julie Jensen investigated her husband, checked his planner, photographed a note, and documented her suspicions. She gave the letter to a neighbor with instructions to hand it to police if anything should happen to her. She wrote that she would never commit
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541 U.S. 36 (2004)), held that the use of Julie Jensen's letter and statements could be admitted based on the "forfeiture by wrongdoing" doctrine, under which a defendant waives his right to confront a witness if he caused the witness to be absent.
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I pray I'm wrong nothing happens... but I am suspicious of Mark's suspicious behaviors fear for my early demise. However, I will not leave David
Douglas. My life's greatest love, accomplishment and wish: "My 3 D's"——Daddy (Mark), David
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The letter was the critical factor in the trial that ended on
February 22, 2008. The jury found Jensen, 48, guilty of his wife's murder after more than 30 hours of deliberations. He was sentenced by Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge
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and was aware of her husband's extramarital affair with a co-worker, Kelly LaBonte
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decision to reinstate the conviction. The matter was remanded to the
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and that if she died, police should consider her husband a suspect. "I pray that I am wrong and nothing happens, but I am suspicious of Mark's suspicious behaviors and fear for my early demise."
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know he's never forgiven me for the brief affair I had with that creep seven years ago. Mark lives for work the kids; he's an avid surfer of the Internet...
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