Florida Babysitter Shakes As Verdict is Read in Little Girl’s Murder Trial

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: to the foreperson has the jury reached a verdict would you hand it to the bailiff and he'll hand it up to me thank you Ms. Jewell would you and your attorneys please stand while the verdict is read at this time I'm going to ask the clerk to please publish the verdict [00:00:37] Speaker 2: in the circuit court of the 8th judicial circuit in and for Baker County Florida state of Florida versus Vonda Charmaine Jules case number 02-2023-CF333 we the jury find as follows as to count one of the information the defendant is not guilty we the jury find as follows as to count two of the information the defendant is guilty of third degree felony murder as charged in the information we the jury find as follows as to count three of the information the defendant is guilty of leaving a child unattended or unsupervised in a motor vehicle causing great bodily injury as charged in the information so say we this 8th day of November 2024 at McClendon Baker County Florida signed by the foreperson David Saints [00:01:37] Speaker 1: very good be seated please is either council aware of any further proceedings that would require the presence of the jury we'd like to have the jury poll judge okay uh members of the jury a request has been made uh that the jury be polled the purpose of conducting a poll is to verify uh that the verdict of the jury is unanimous uh shortly the clerk will be asking each of you individually if the verdict that was just read is your verdict and you should respond appropriately yes or no um i remind you that you are still under oath that you took at the commencement of this trial the clerk will now conduct the poll of the jury [00:02:27] Speaker 2: jury number 288 is this your verdict yes jury number 48 is this your verdict yes jury number 373 is this your verdict yes jury number 150 is this your verdict yes jury number 139 is this your verdict yes ma'am jury number 50 is this your verdict yes [00:02:50] Speaker 1: very well any further proceedings involving the jury [00:02:57] Speaker 2: no your honor [00:02:58] Speaker 1: no sir very well members of the jury i want to thank each of you for your time and consideration it's been a week and it's been a long week and i know that a lot of the time you've sat around and didn't have much to do but that's just the process but uh without service without the service of jurors such as yourself the system would not work and uh your so your participation really is just essential to our jury service i also want to advise you of some very special privileges enjoyed by jurors specifically without a court order no juror can be required to talk about the discussions that occurred in the jury room and although you're free to speak with anyone about your deliberations you are also free to refuse to speak to anyone the lawyers and their representatives are not not permitted to initiate any communications with you about the trial however you may speak to the lawyers or anyone else about the trial you also have the right to refuse to speak with anyone it will be up to you to decide whether to preserve your privacy as a juror and again i do seriously thank you for your service uh as a juror and with those instructions you are discharged from further service uh mr bailiff you may want to escort them back to the jury room they can pick up their personal effects and whatnot and then you can escort them from the courthouse as you please thank you so at this time again thank you all right be seated please mr nelson uh is your client entitled to a pre-sentence investigation report yes sir she is okay uh it's my understanding she is out on bond at this time yes judge uh i'm going to remand her to the custody of the sheriff pending word from the surety on the bond that they're willing to keep her on the bond pending uh at least until such time as we have sentencing so we just verify that she can be released as soon as soon as it's been verified that she can be released okay are there any other proceedings uh in this case at this time that we need to deal with you want to set a date judge or how do you want to uh i don't at this point because i don't know what it is uh something will be coming out very soon though probably first part of next week who do you want to notify [00:05:41] Speaker 3: probation parole by the psi do you want me to do you like to do it i'll do that okay very good [00:05:45] Speaker 1: that'll be fine mr nelson and i pledge briefly [00:05:57] Speaker ?: you you you [00:06:11] Speaker 1: anything else we need to do at this point no sir okay again to everyone thank you very much uh for your participation in the process and we are adjourned thank you thank you judge yes sir [00:06:42] Speaker ?: thank you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you