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Prosecutor Says Brendan Banfield Planned Murders Of Wife & Fetish Website Lure — CLOSING ARGUMENT

Prosecutor Jenna Sands gave a 20-minute closing argument in former IRS criminal investigator Brendan Banfield's double-murder trial in Fairfax, Virginia, today (Friday, January 30). She told jurors that "without your work, here, Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan would not be able to find justice. So thank you." 00:57 "Talking first about the aggravated murder instructions, they have three parts. You'll first need to find that Brendan Banfield killed Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan. You'll need to find that those killings were willful, deliberate and premeditated." You'll need to find for one of the counts, that those two murders occurred within a three year period, and for the other count, that those two murders occurred within the same transaction or occurrence. We know that they were killed during the same event within the Banfield residence. So that should knock that one out for you. Three years. Pretty simple as well. We know that they occurred on the same day. It's the first element that we're going to talk about, that Brendan Banfield killed both Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan. 01:47 "We know that on February 24 2023 he executed his plan to murder his wife and an innocent stranger. He was in love with Juliana. He can pretend that this was a fling, an affair. He'd had them before. No big deal. He was in love with Juliana. He was afraid of losing her. He needed to get rid of his wife so that they could be together, so that they could marry, so that they could have those babies that he was picking out names for." 02:20 "Juliana told us how the plan was crafted and how it played out that morning in the Banfield house. But you've heard directly from our detectives and our experts the uncontradicted evidence of Brendan Banfield's culpability. You needn't rely only on Juliana's story. There has been a plethora of evidence to help you meet your burden." 03:33 "Prior to the January inception of this scheme, Brendan told you that more than 10 years ago, there were incidents of affairs involving rough sex, but you have zero evidence to corroborate that self-serving statement." 05:05 "How many potential targets were turned down by Juliana and Brendan because they wanted to meet in person first, because they wanted to talk on the phone, because they wanted pictures that included Christine's face?" 07:58 "We saw evidentiary confirmation of the affair, the semen stains on Juliana's bed sheets. We also saw the photos of Juliana's clothing moved into the primary bedroom when the search warrant was executed in October following the murders. We saw the photos of Brendan and Juliana together, both before and after the murders." 09:44 "It's a plan. It is premeditated. We see this false attempt to check in on Christine so that they can tell the story to the police when they arrived, that they did everything they possibly could." 12:25 "Mr. Banfield gave you zero explanation for any of this evidence. Slide 15, they have provided no explanation for Christine's blood smeared on the right hand of Joe Ryan, leaving voids between the fingers." "They have no explanation for the blood smeared across the top of the right onto the left, leaving that void on Joe Ryan's hand where they had been overlapping. For that matter, you have no explanation from defense for how his hands came to be in that position, neatly folded on his chest, covering the bullet wound that penetrated his spine, immobilizing him. How could that have happened? If you are to believe Mr. Banfield, you there's been no explanation for the bloody hand like smears on Joseph Ryan's jeans containing Christine Banfield's DNA. There's been no explanation from defense for how his jeans ended up bunched under his rear." 16:17 "They got Joe Ryan into the house, and then they shot him. Brendan stabbed Christine, let her bleed out on the floor, and then dripped, smeared and wiped her blood on Joseph Ryan's body to make it look like he had attacked Christine. Then they called the police. Brendan let Juliana take the fall, and it took a little bit of doing, but here we are, and it's his turn to be held accountable." ****************************************************************************** Subscribe to Legal Affairs and Trials with Meghann Cuniff: https://www.legalaffairsandtrials.com...