Defense Attorney Joshua Weiss
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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You have the choice today of whether to testify or not testify. Is after talking with your attorney and going through your own thoughts, what is your decision of whether or not you want to testify? Not to testify.
Yes, sir.
Yes. Jason, we've met a number of times. We've talked about what your testimony would be. And you understand that even though you might have an opportunity to say your piece, that you would be subject to cross-examination. And I've explained to you that the cross-examination would probably be very intense and relentless. And by subjecting yourself to that, you can change the status of your case.
Whatever it is that your decision is, it is a personal decision that only you can make. Have you had enough time to consult with me, talk about whether or not, go over the benefits and detriments of testifying? Yes. Are you deciding not to testify on your own volition? Yes. And that's what your personal decision is?
Was he a violent child?
You sat through a long trial, and I know there's things, I think the state's right, you saw things that you won't forget, I won't forget. I want to tell each and every one of you, thank you for your time, your patience, your consideration. But you're tasked with a profound and somber responsibility in this part of the trial.
You get to decide whether Jason gets life with parole or never be released. Both options are severe and a significant punishment. I think it reflects the seriousness of the case, but it's critical that you remember that every tragic crime has equal magnitude under the law. Your duty today is not to ensure punishment. It's to make sure it's also portioned. I've spoken with many victims' families.
They don't care if you're shot or stabbed or strangled or drowned. or any of one of those things, every single murder is especially heinous, atrocious, and cruel. General Moyle talked to you about that yesterday. Every murder is emotional. There's always a family that loses someone. General Whomp is right. The Pace and the Bean family lost a very important person. It's tragic, sad.
And I agree the Chen family have lost a child too. There's two families hurting. It's important to know that the law distinguishes crimes that are inherently tragic with those that rise to the most egregious levels of brutality, deserving permanent condemnation. The question you must ask yourself when you're back in that jury room is whether or not this case reaches that threshold.
Does it rise to the level that Jason Chen, a 73-year-old man, be forever denied an opportunity to demonstrate remorse? rehabilitation, and redemption.
There's no evidence the defendant was put in a reasonable state of fear where he could have believed that self-defense would have been justified.
to let the request for self-defense instruction be denied.
You want her to be in as tight of a package as possible to fit into this teeny little suitcase that's not designed to hold a person. She's not moving. Cuff the hands together. Shackle the two legs together and pull them together. You wouldn't go haphazard right hand to right leg, and then attach a cuff here and attach the shackle to the left leg.
That's indicative of she doesn't want to be shackled. He's just slapping the shackles on whatever he can find, whatever he can get his hands on.
On November 22nd, just before midnight, Jasmine Pace came to Jason Shen's home at 110 Treymont Street, apartment 210. It's undisputed. What happens between 12 o'clock and 2 o'clock is no proof of it. What we do is after 2 o'clock in the morning, Courtney Brewer was awakened. She was awakened by what she described as an enough strength.
What we know is that Courtney couldn't describe what was being said. She couldn't answer any questions about what the argument was over. She described it as something that you couldn't decipher. Emotions are up. Pulses are up. Everyone's aggravated. Jason Chen's scared. Jasmine's upset. Jason's upset. And Jason killed Jasmine. He got a knife and 60 times Jasmine was stabbed.
What's been disputed is the state's allegation that this is premeditated. You as a jury have the most important job. You're going to retire to a jury and you're going to be looking at all of this evidence. You're going to be looking at all of the testimony, recalling the testimony that you've heard from all of the witnesses. Investigator Crawford, Dr. Cogswell, Courtney Brewer, CSU investigators.
You're going to be going through Mounds of evidence. Days of testimony. And like the general asks you during your selection, you get to use your common sense. You get to apply what you know to the facts and the evidence that's been given to you.
What we know is that from just after two o'clock in the morning, Everything that Jason did showed that he wasn't acting rational. Rational people don't shackle individuals and put them in garbage bags. They don't shackle the individual, put them in the garbage bag, and put them in a suitcase. They don't go the next day to Walgreens and Walmart to get cleaning supplies. They call the police.
Everything that Jason Chen did It was disgusting.
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