Ramsaran trial

Then, about a year after the affair began, Jen disappeared. Her death was ruled a homicide. Jen and Remy Ramsaran were once college sweethearts. While he was loud and boisterous, she was his opposite, and was described by those who knew the couple as sweet and quiet. The couple got married and bought a home next to Chenango Lake where they raised their three young children.

But as the years went on, Jen and Remy began to seek out their own passions, and ultimately grew apart. Jen became enamored with the world of online gaming, immersing herself in the role-playing game Kingdoms of Camelot.

Jen confided in her best friend that she had even started talking more intimately with another player, named Rob, from Britain. The pair exchanged messages together and Jen once convinced Sayles to stop by the mall so they could smell the cologne he wore.

While Jen slipped deeper into the fantasy world, Remy was diving into his own passion and began long-distance running, signing up for more than two dozen marathons in his quest for fitness. Swartz, said Garcia's lack of experience violated their client's rights to effective counsel and information from forensic experts not mentioned in the original trial are key to his defense, according to the motion filed last year.

Revoir said in his decision that, according to Ramsaran's father, Mangra Ramsaran, Garcia falsely said he was experienced in criminal cases and had defended accused murderers. Revoir said the court first learned of Garcia's inexperience when the motion was filed. The judge also noted copies from the case file that show Garcia was searching the internet about forensic research four days after the trial began. During oral arguments at Chenango County Court on Sept.

Gilberto Garcia's own words the day Mr. Ramsaran was sentenced to 25 to life for the murder of his wife, 'The defense in this case in essence was no defense.

Garcia said he "did not retain or utilize any experts or investigators," in his response to the board. The trial began in fall of , and Garcia said before the jury was selected the defense had no witness list, and he was unsure if he would call his client to the stand.

Ultimately, Ramsaran did take the stand, but said Garcia did not provide any preparation for the testimony. McBride told jurors Ramsaran was "obsessed" with his mistress, Jennifer's best friend, adding the case dealt with sex, divorce, money and deception. Then, they found out that Jennifer was so troubled with Remy that she had even made an appointment to see a divorce lawyer.

It was in that this case finally went to court. They said that Remy killed Jennifer so as to avoid a costly divorce and still pursue his relationship with Eileen, whom he considered his soulmate. As proof, they presented the phone records and Facebook conversations between the couple after Jennifer went missing, much of which was sexually explicit.

He was passionate about fitness, and also ran 26 marathons in a particular year. On December 11, , Jennifer apparently went to buy a dress for her daughter but did not return home.

Her body was discovered frozen in February , near an embankment in Pharsalia. She was also naked. An autopsy ruled it as a homicide. Though no cause of death could be determined, the medical expert did say that she had suffered a blow to her head before dying.

Initially, people felt that Rob, a British man she had an emotional affair with while gaming online, may have had something to do with the crime. Prosecutors stated that after dropping his kids off at school, Remy came back around a.