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Eric Williams Trial Begins In Rockwall, Texas

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KAUFMAN COUNTY MURDER TRIAL FOR ERIC WILLIAMS Former Justice of the Peace Eric Williams was accused of shooting and killing District Attorney Mike McLelland, Mike’s wife Cynthia, and Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse. Williams, who is 47 years old, was found guilty of stealing county computer monitors in 2012. McLelland and Hasse prosecuted Williams, that event caused him to lose his job as a judge and law license. Williams was set to take out the men that he blamed to have caused his downfall. On January 31, 2013, while walking to the courthouse in Kaufman County, Texas, Mark Hasse was shot and killed. Two months later, on the Saturday before Easter 2013, Mike and Cynthia McLelland were murdered in their home. Medical examiners testified that Mike and Cynthia were each shot numerous times (“Eric Williams Murder Trial Begins in Rockwall”). Prosecutors said the couple died in a “torrent of lead” (“Eric Williams Found Guilty in Kaufman Co. Murder Trial”). …show more content…

The trial lasted three days. During those days, the jury heard from thirty witnesses as prosecutors detailed their case. The jury also heard a lot of evidence that pointed to Williams; from e-mails that Williams had sent from his own computer to a cartridge that was recovered from his storage unit. Investigators stated that cartridge cycled through the same gun that killed the McLellands (“Eric Williams Found Guilty in Kaufman Co. Murder Trial”). There were also fingerprints that belonged to Williams on the vehicle used to get away from the McLellands’

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