A person already serving a existence sentence for the 2014 dying of an Arizona teen used to be convicted Thursday of first-degree homicide within the killing of any other Tucson lady years previous.
Pima County Awesome Court docket jurors additionally discovered Christopher Clements, 42, accountable of kidnapping and housebreaking within the dying of Isabel Celis, who used to be 6 when she vanished from her oldsters’ house in 2012.
Clements is scheduled to be sentenced March 25.
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Jurors started deliberating Tuesday in Clements’ retrial, which started Feb 7. Jurors within the previous trial failed to succeed in a verdict remaining 12 months, prompting a mistrial.
Clements become a suspect in Celis’ dying in 2017, when he instructed FBI brokers that he may just cause them to the lady’s stays — however stated he had not anything to do together with her dying — in trade for having fees in an unrelated housebreaking case dropped, Tucson police stated.
In remaining arguments Tuesday, Deputy County Lawyer Tracy Miller instructed jurors it used to be no twist of fate that nobody aside from Clements discovered Celis within the 5 years she used to be lacking, the Arizona Day by day Celebrity reported.
Christopher Clements, who’s already serving a existence sentence for the 2014 dying of an Arizona teen, used to be convicted on Feb. 29, 2024, of first-degree homicide within the killing of any other Tucson lady years previous. (Fox Information)
“He doesn’t come ahead except there’s something to achieve,” Miller stated. “There’s no different individual it may well be.”
Clements’ lawyer, Eric Kessler, instructed jurors that not anything related Clements to the crime and police could not turn out he entered the house, the Arizona Day by day Celebrity reported.
Clements used to be arrested in 2018 within the deaths of Celis and 13-year-old Maribel Gonzalez, who disappeared in June 2014 whilst strolling to a chum’s space.
Gonzalez’s frame used to be discovered days later in a far flung house north of Tucson. Celis’ stays had been came upon years later in the similar common house.
Clements used to be sentenced to herbal existence in jail in 2022 for kidnapping and killing Gonzalez. Jurors in Clements’ retrial weren’t instructed of that conviction or his historical past of convictions for intercourse crimes in different states relationship again to when he used to be 16.
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Celis’ mom and brother had been each within the court docket Thursday however left after the decision used to be learn, in line with Tucson TV station KOLD.
A choice to Kessler in the hunt for remark at the verdict used to be now not in an instant returned.
Miller instructed KOLD that the “jury did an ideal process sorting via all the proof and all the data we had to succeed in what we consider used to be the best end result.”
