Guilty: Jury Says Cortez Is The Killer

A little accuracy concerning the length of the jury deliberations! This jury began deliberating at 4:15 pm on Tuesday, and they came back with a verdict 1 pm ish today--Thursday (based on when associated press releases on this story to all news venues were time stamped on google news)

"After a FEW DAYS of deliberations....." is misleading and inaccurate. Having been on juries, I can tell you that they keep standard business hours, 9-5. So actually they deliberated for less than two days.

Hopefully in prison, he'll become some 300lb HIV-positive skinhead's 'private dancer'.

Justine, how do you explain the print? Apparently, his explanation of it was found lacking to the jury.

I think yoga boy is guilty of a lot of things, but I'm just not convinced murder is one of them. Too many unanswered questions here regarding the other bf.

The only thing I'm convinced of is that the police did a really bad job here.

there is enough REASONABLE DOUBT here for a not guilty verdict. too bad the justice system was not set in motion

while the fingerprint was Cortez's
the hairs in her hand at the time of her death were definitively NOT Cortez's.

if she struggled with the killer (as everyone says she did), Cortez's hair should have been found on her.

it was not.

there should have been fingerprints ALL OVER the apartment. Cortez was sleeping with Woods. why was there only one ???

also, the skin under her fingernails were not matched with Cortez's DNA

not only that, but Cortez spoke to many of his friends that day and afterwards was normal. he also had no scratches or signs of struggle on his own body.

despite a fingerprint and circumstantial phone calls, there is enough reasonable doubt for a not guilty verdict.

this is a true shame and a bungled investigation.
unfortunately, for Cortez, he will sit in jail until the real killer is found or turns himself in.

And you know this how? You first say you know cortez then you know Catherine.
Are you Haughn? or are you another stripper in that filthy club?
I hope you stay in hell in this life and in the next.

The Police focused on the wrong guy. Cortez is innocent of this crime.

This reminds me of the Robert Chambers trial. What is it about sociopaths that attracts a fan club?

For every person here who doubts Cortez' guilt - forget the fingerprints, which are damning enough, EXPLAIN THE PHONE CALLS.

He called her 13 times in the last 90 mintues of her life, 292 times the month before, and yet from the moment she's dead - he doesn't call, not once. Yet claims to not have known of her death for 16 hours.

So, as we say, from where -I- come from in New York, shut the f*ck up. It's an insult to decency.

When you say, “there are people that went to school with him that will tell you without a doubt he was capable of doing this” and you wish to believe this without knowing Paul yourself, that’s your business. But Paul did have friends from high school & college, a schoolteacher and a professional elderly couple who just recently come to know him as a physical trainer who all came to swear in a courtroom full of people and the press that no way could Paul commit this murder. But you didn’t hear much about that in the news did you? The media also didn’t bring to the surface that there were days that passed without Paul calling Catherine and there were days that Catherine would call Paul more times a day than he did. But this wouldn't strengthen the prosecution's case, would it? Of a year's worth of phone records they built their case around the three or four incidences of "excessive" phone calls. Also, Judge Berkman refused to admit into evidence Catherine's e-mail message to Paul just days prior to her murder where she simply stated, "I love you". That certainly wouldn't have helped the prosecution's case either. The cell phone tower usage has been given too much power over this case. Paul & Catherine practically lived in walking distance to each other and even the "experts" admitted that signals will bump to the nearest tower that wasn't busy. Paul testified in court he was running errands & buying dinner while making his phone calls to his clients, but I guess the fact the media stated he called from his home is what got stuck in everyone's mind. Another thing that the prosecution and the media decided not to dwell on is that Catherine knew a “gentleman” by the name of Joe Cabrera. Joe Cabrera is a known drug dealer and has served jail time for assault. I would personally like to know if his hair sample matches what was left in Catherine's hand. Isn't anyone curious as to why the prosecution decided not to test David's own hair against the known hairs in Catherine's hands? The prosecution started to build its case against Paul the day it became the tabloid's "source" poisoning everyone's mind against him. Even during trial you could see Prosecutor Casolaro and NY Post's soul-less trash writer Laura Italiano sitting together in the court room discussing Paul's case for the next edition. You all can condemn Paul for your own personal reasons but having the prosecution make its case in the media the way it has is wrong. Sadly in the end, Catherine’s life was a lie, her family and friends may not want to believe that but it was. Catherine lied to her family & friends not only about the relationship she had with Paul but the life she led. The Catherine she became while living in New York is not the Catherine that left Ohio and she was probably conflicted about that. She certainly didn’t want her family or her hometown knowing about the Catherine she became.

Fingerprints, and the numerous phone calls right before her death, then not one after till he 'claims' he heard about her death. Take into account also from all the 'hear/say' statements you put in your summary (joe acabrera), I could give many hear/say statements that were told to me and the prosecutor that catherine's best friends from home gave..I'll give one for instance : That she was NEVER intimate with him and in fact thought he was a gay man (which I even heard Catherine claim before)... Obsession is a sickness and there are many people like Paul in this world.. unfortunatly, not all kill ... And for the record, MOST who commit haneous cowardly acts like this are in fact the one's that most who knew them claim 'They would be the last person to do something like this' ... look into most serial killers first murders, and most who knew them say the same YOU all are saying about Paul...

Fingerprints, and the numerous phone calls right before her death, then not one after till he 'claims' he heard about her death. Take into account also from all the 'hear/say' statements you put in your summary (joe acabrera), I could give many hear/say statements that were told to me and the prosecutor that catherine's best friends from home gave..I'll give one for instance : That she was NEVER intimate with him and in fact thought he was a gay man (which I even heard Catherine claim before)... Obsession is a sickness and there are many people like Paul in this world.. unfortunatly, not all kill ... And for the record, MOST who commit haneous cowardly acts like this are in fact the one's that most who knew them claim 'They would be the last person to do something like this' ... look into most serial killers first murders, and most who knew them say the same YOU all are saying about Paul...And on top of all this, to LIE about your alibi , not a good idea if you are being questioned within the first 24 hours of a murder investigation... A so-called Boston College 'scholar' should have known better..It's going to come back and bite you in the ass EVEN if you are innocent...Lying isn'tright during an investigation by detectives...Not even a good 'actor' could get away with that

-And if you (person above) ask to yourself why did they let david off so quick ....a) cooperation .. and mostly his alibi b) david's boss and co-worker at his employment spoke with him in person when he went to pick up cd's before his car @ 6:35pm (which is 4 blocks from the house)

Joe Cabrera's telephone number is part of Catherine's phone records, it's not "heresay". Catherine may have claimed to her family & friends that she was never intimate with Paul and might even have said she thought he was gay. But again, Catherine lived a lie. Better to claim to have a gay friend to your family & friends rather than own up to the fact you were sleeping around while living with David. As for David's "alibi", his boss and co-worker, both admitted to not having watches nor was there a clock in the lobby they were in. It was the prosecution who prepared them both very well as to what time David was with them, although his boss testified he saw David a few minutes after six and spoke to him for only a couple of minutes; plenty of time to get back to the apartment before 6:30pm I would think.