Archive for May 2011
The Trial Draws Near
Jury selection in the trial of Jason Young commences on May 31, 2011. It has been a long 4 1/2 years from Michelle’s death to this point. Many of us have exhausted ourselves on myriad message boards, defending her mother and sister against the accusations of Gojo and others who would throw anyone under the bus. Gojo viciously attacked anyone with the temerity to state an opinion that Jason was guilty of this crime, and yet he is about to be tried for it. People’s jobs have been threatened and, in some cases, actually been lost in Gojo’s quest to silence critics of his Golden Boy, Jason Lynn Young.
Since Jason’s arrest in December of 2009, poor old Gojo has been sadly missing from the boards he monitored day and night before that. Only occasional forays onto the internet and the lack of an obituary in the local Brevard newspaper have served to assure us that John Goins is still in the land of the living. One thing is for sure: even if the Rapture had happened on Saturday, John Goins would have been left behind with the rest of us non-believers. No true believer could publicly libel the mother and sister of a murder victim to the extent he did.
We were gratified to hear, last week, that one of the missing links in the chain of evidence connecting Jason Lynn Young to the murder of his pregnant wife has emerged and will be admitted at trial. A convenience store clerk along the road between Hillsville (where Jason said he was) and Raleigh (where he really was) remembered and identified Jason as the person who paid $20 for $15 worth of gas in the wee hours of the day Michelle was killed. He must have been under a lot of stress to cuss out the clerk because he had to go into the store to pay with cash, not to mention that he drove off without claiming his change. Why did he pay with cash, you may ask, when he had made all his other gas purchases with credit? Of course, the obvious answer is that he didn’t want anyone to know he bought more gas than he needed for one trip from Raleigh to Hillsville. Had to sneak that in there, as he actually made two trips.
So. Will Gojo emerge again once the trial starts, or has he finally come to believe that his friend just might be guilty after all?
Inquiring minds want to know.
