A Central Florida jury decided a death penalty case with a deceased body found in a trunk. State Attorney Bill Gladson of the Fifth Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office announced the death penalty recommendation by jurors in the murder conviction of 59-year-old DeMorris Andy Hunter.
In the courtroom of Orange County Judge Lisa T. Munyon, prosecutors Richard Buxman and Kenneth Nunnelley presented the case against DeMorris Hunter for the 2002 murder of 38-year-old Theresa Ann Green, securing a guilty verdict.
“These past two weeks have been grueling for the family and friends of the victim,” said Bill Gladson, the State Attorney for the Fifth Judicial Circuit. “Reliving the events that occurred on the night Green’s life was taken has been nothing short of tragic. I believe this is why the jurors have recommended the most appropriate punishment for the defendant, which is the death penalty.”…