Jury finds Jeffrey Malmberg guilty of second-degree murder in death of 2-year-old Jozylnn Martinez
Jeffrey Malmberg has been found guilty of second-degree murder today following a Kent County Circuit Court jury deliberating for about three hours.
The verdict was just returned and Malmberg now faces up to life in prison on the conviction for killing 2-year-old Jozlynn Martinez on Feb. 22.
Malmberg admitted putting his knee on the chest of the girl, the daughter of his live-in girlfriend Connie Martinez.
During the five-day trial, he argued that Jozlynn’s death was an accident as he tried to calm her temper tantrum.
Assistant Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker worked to convince the panel that Malmberg should have known the risk of injury or death was likely when a grown man puts his body on a child.
Becker said there was no excuse for the response by Malmberg, who bagged Jozlynn’s body and threw it in a Dumpster near their 915 Nagold St. NW apartment.
Jurors also found him guilty of felony larceny from taking Connie Martinez's tax
return money and tampering with evidence, stemming from disposing of the girls.
body.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/10/jury_finds_jeffrey_malmberg_gu.html
Jozlynn's body was never found!!
View Jozlynn's thread on the Find Madeleine forum HERE!
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