A jury yesterday started deliberating on the case of a Guyanese woman who was murdered in 2011 allegedly by her adoptive son.
According to the Sun-Sentinel on Monday jurors listened to closing arguments in the trial of Gerard Lopes Belmonte, 23, who is accused of killing Natalie Belmonte after raping her in July 2011.
Defence lawyer Jose Reyes spent two-and-a-half hours trying to persuade jurors that there was room for reasonable doubt in every aspect of the prosecution’s case — from the blood on the defendant’s clothing and the surveillance video footage that appeared to show the defendant loading the victim’s body into the
