BROSSARD TRIAL: Case "circumstantial" but will continue
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David Brossard trial, Aug. 25, 2009
A witness in the trail of David Brossard describes a conversation in which she said Dawn Brossard told her she came home to see her wedding photos and a gun placed on her bed. David Brossard is charged with killing his wife. Click to play
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David Brossard trial
David Brossard is on trial, accused of killing his wife in 1997 and dumping her bound body in Geneva Lake. He was found not guilty Aug. 31, 2009 after a two-week trial.
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The evidence against David Brossard might be circumstantial, but it could be enough to convict him, a judge said.
Walworth County Circuit Judge James L. Carlson denied a defense request to dismiss the murder charge against David Brossard, 41, of Burlington, shortly after the prosecution rested its case this morning.
After more than five days of testimony, defense attorney Charles Blumenfield said that there was not enough evidence to continue the case against David Brossard, despite a legal standard to interpret that evidence in a light most favorable to the state.
Phillip Koss said he showed David Brossard had a motive to kill his unfaithful wife, that David Brossard expressed intent to kill with a note reading “Till death do us part” left for Dawn Brossard with her wedding dress, and that David Brossard had ready access to the items used to hide his wife’s body.
“It is circumstantial evidence. There is no direct evidence,” Carlson said.
But, considered in the light most favorable to the state, jurors could convict David Brossard of murder.
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