SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – Twenty-plus witness testimonies and hours worth of video and cell phone-extracted evidence is what the jury of seven men and nine women have so far in deciding the fate of Leilani Simon, standing trial for the murder of her 20-month-old son, Quinton.
The first week of witness testimony has officially wrapped, as prosecutors are trying to prove Simon killed Quinton and dumped his body in a dumpster overnight between Oct. 4th and Oct. 5, 2022.
The prosecution team is led by Assistant United States Attorney Tim Dean, Assistant Chatham County District Attorney Jennifer Parker, and Chatham County Police Department (CCPD) Detective Marian Lemmons.
Monday, Dean delivered an hour-plus-long opening statement.
“Her story fell apart pretty quickly thanks to good police work,” Dean told the jury, “She would go on to tell a series of lies over several weeks only moving from one lie to the next.”
The defense team consists of Robert Persse and Martin Hilliard.
Persse delivered a three-minute opening statement.