Anna Kepner: What the Defense's Own Moves Reveal
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The episode discusses the defense strategy in the case of Timothy Hudson, who faces serious charges related to the death of Anna Kepner.
Timothy Hudson's defense team requested the adult transfer themselves. They entered a not guilty plea without their client in the courtroom. They are pushing for the same judge who released him in February — when this was still a sealed juvenile case — to decide whether he stays free now that he faces first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse charges as an adult in federal court. Every one of those decisions tells you something. Former prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis reads each move and explains what trial strategy is being assembled. Anna Kepner was eighteen. She was found dead aboard the Carnival Horizon inside a stateroom she shared with Hudson and another sibling — concealed under a bed, wrapped in a blanket, covered with life jackets. The medical examiner ruled mechanical asphyxiation. Bruising on her neck was consistent with an arm held across it. Surveillance reportedly shows no one else entered or exited that cabin the night she was allegedly killed. Her fourteen-year-old brother reportedly heard yelling and violent sounds from the locked room the night before her body was found. Hudson, sixteen, is on pre-trial release — living with a relative under GPS…
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