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Kessler charged successful decease of Nassau County salon co-worker Joleen Cummings
Jury enactment is acceptable to statesman Monday successful the execution proceedings of Kimberly Kessler, the pistillate accused of sidesplitting her co-worker astatine a Nassau County hairsbreadth salon successful 2018.
Kessler is believed to beryllium the past idiosyncratic to spot Joleen Cummings alive. Cummings’ assemblage has ne'er been recovered. The parent of 3 was reported missing erstwhile she didn’t prime up her children for Mother’s Day successful 2018.
Kessler was charged with Cummings’ execution aft deputies said blood grounds was recovered astatine the Tangles Hair Salon successful Nassau County wherever the 2 worked together. Kessler was initially charged with stealing Cummings’ SUV a fewer days aft Cummings vanished.
A caller question by Kessler’s lawyers suggests Cummings could person go “physically violent” with Kessler successful an ongoing quality implicit drugs successful the salon. The defence is besides accusing the prosecution of withholding grounds that Cummings had drugs successful her purse astir the clip she disappeared.
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The defence is asking the justice for a proceeding connected the cause grounds and has besides filed yet different question for a intelligence competency review.
The question points retired that determination had been a “fairly convulsive fight” astatine Tangles and that humor from some women was recovered passim the salon.
The defence has ne'er acknowledged that Cummings is dead, and her assemblage has ne'er been found.
Kessler has had 3 intelligence competency evaluations. She was ruled not competent for prosecution successful the archetypal 1 successful 2019. But Judge James Daniel recovered she was competent for prosecution — successful 2020 and earlier this year. Last week, helium denied a defence question for a 4th intelligence competency evaluation.
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The defence filed its latest petition Monday, a week earlier assemblage enactment is acceptable to begin.
The lawsuit attracted nationalist attraction erstwhile successful archetypal broke successful portion due to the fact that authorities said Kessler, who went by Jennifer Sybert, has utilized 17 antithetic aliases implicit the years.
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