Gangland widow takes stand
"For more than two weeks Judy Moran has listened as the Crown outlined its case against her; alleging she drove the gunman to and from the scene, disposed of clothing afterwards and that she dumped the alleged get-away vehicle.
Today she walked to the witness box with the aid of a cane, to appear as the first witness in her own defence.
She recalled the shooting deaths of her two sons Mark and Jason and then her ex-de facto husband Lewis Moran.
She told the Court how she always considered them dead but not gone and continued to talk to them from a makeshift shrine in her backyard.
She told the Court that right up until his own violent death in 2004 Lewis Moran continued to pay her bills and to give her $2,000 a month. 'If I needed clothing or anything' she said 'he'd give me more.'
After Lewis Moran was gunned down his brother started giving Judy Moran money. She told the Court it was a couple of thousand dollars on a few occasions but usually just a couple of hundred every three to six months.
Judy Moran says that six months before he was killed, her brother-in-law, who she calls 'Tuppy', ran out of money. He told her he planned to sell a bull to buy her a new car but the bull escaped its enclosure and got hit by a truck."
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widow, Judy Moran, on trial for murder, has taken to the witness box.
who they charged had held their central Harlem community 'hostage' by conspiring to turn it into a drug zone using guns, beatings and intimidating fellow members from cooperating with police.
is hoping Judge Robert Lasnik will reduce his jail time Tuesday when he returns to a Seattle courtroom to be sentenced for the second time on drug smuggling charges.
crime when he was charged with shooting John Henderson during a robbery of the now-defunct Standard Food & Spirits on Memorial Drive on Jan. 7, 2009. Henderson, 27 when he died, came to represent victims in a city that suffered multiple high-profile crimes in the months following his death."
