BOONE COUNTY, MO. -- Jurors are deliberating at Tausha Morton’s murder trial.
During closing arguments Tuesday morning, Public Defender Paul Hood told the jury that Tausha Morton is innocent because Greg Morton murdered Mitch Kemp in a fit of jealousy.
“In her mind, she has been helping them,” Hood said. “She has been trying. She has led them to the body, and now because of the manipulation of our justice system, she is getting prosecuted. She’s not guilty! Greg Morton is lying.”
Assistant Prosecutor Richard Hicks told the jury during closing arguments that Tausha Morton told Greg Morton to murder Mitch Kemp so that she could have sole custody of her daughter Lexie.
Since she was married to two men at the same time, Hicks said Tausha knew that she would have hard time getting custody of her daughter every minute that Lexie’s father, Mitch Kemp, was still alive.
“This is what the murder was about,” Hicks said. “The only way Tausha could assure, ensure, make sure that Mitch never had any kind of custody, joint, sole or whatever, was that he ended up four or five feet underground.”
Jurors have three options for Tausha Morton as they deliberate at this hour.
They can render a verdict of not guilty, guilty of first degree murder or guilty of second degree murder.
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