Felony Justice
Jury finds millionaire litigant responsible in lawyer’s homicide
David Jungerman. Picture from the Jackson County Detention Middle inmate search web site.
A Missouri man has been discovered responsible of murdering a Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, lawyer who obtained a $5.75 million judgment in opposition to him for taking pictures and wounding a homeless man.
Jurors in Jackson County, Missouri, deliberated for about two hours Thursday earlier than discovering 84-year-old David Jungerman of Raytown, Missouri, responsible of first-degree homicide and armed legal motion, report the Kansas City Star, KCUR and the Associated Press. The publications variously describe Jungerman as a millionaire and a multimillionaire.
The slain lawyer was Tom Pickert of Kansas Metropolis, who was shot exterior his dwelling in October 2017. The taking pictures occurred someday after Jungerman was served with property liens that might have prevented him from transferring property that would fulfill the judgment.
Jungerman has stated he caught the homeless man stealing copper from his warehouse in 2012, and the taking pictures was self-defense.
Tim Greenback, an assistant Jackson County prosecutor, argued throughout closing arguments that Jungerman had “ice water” in his veins. Greenback cited a dialog that seemed to be by chance recorded by Jungerman wherein he bragged in regards to the homicide to his farmhand. Authorities discovered the recording in a search of Jungerman’s dwelling.
Police additionally discovered a manila folder labeled “Pickert Homicide” of their searches of Jungerman’s dwelling and enterprise.
Jungerman’s lawyer stated an attraction is deliberate.
