Part 1 - Loren Perry was found not guilty at trial on June 2nd.
The kidnapping case was finally tried. Bailey Reynolds, 12, was taken from her Metropolitan, New Jersey home on October 24th while her parents were dining with friends. Their parents Ryan and Maddi Reynolds returned from a dinner with K.C. and Loren Perry to their babysitter unbeknownst to the crime. The state claims that Loren Perry was the ultimate perpetrator.
Crowds swarmed the Toms River Municipal Court Room to see the trial of the century take place before their eyes. Seating, standing room, hallway room, even outside the building room were all taken up.
Judge Marlene Lynch Ford of the Metropolitan County Superior Court presided over the trial. Madeline Cummings, Anthony Mangano, and Noah Hilsdorf represented Perry. Prosecutors from Metropolitan North led the charge to convict Perry.
Dramatic opening statements from both sides started off the trial hot. This was followed by a total searing of witnesses by both sides for the subsequent next hour and a half. Several objections were made by both sides (mostly by Mangano and a lead Metro North Prosecutor), with Judge Ford concurring. There was some fervor caused by several falsehoods pushed by the Prosecution in their line of questioning and witnesses’ answers.
Part of the attempts made by the Defense was to hint that other individuals related to the case could have done it. This led to a moment between Cummings and babysitter Peyton Bralow, Cummings was asking about past wrongdoings when Bralow claimed: “Well, sometimes, you do everything right, and then sometimes you don’t.” This encouraged Cummings to delve deeper, eventually making Bralow seem more suspect.
When both sides rested, a jury verdict was immediately given: Loren Perry was innocent of the kidnapping of Bailey Reynolds.
Cummings of Laude, Maude, Andrews, and Orlando Law was in a celebratory mood, she issued this excited statement:
“I am proud of me and all of my co-counsels for managing to argue our case to the best of our abilities. Personally, my favorite part of the trial was making Peyton Bralow cry on the stand, like the guilty [censored for a general audience] she is. I am also really glad that we won because the bet I had on this case was growing to an egregious amount of money. Suck it DA, we won again.”
Attorney Mangano of Magano, Mano, Mangao, and Mangano LLC was proud of the team’s ability to overcome the prosecution:
“The prosecution and defense did their jobs and gave the Jury all of the information necessary, and despite flagrant mischaracterization and untrue statements during the Prosecution’s closing we still got Mrs. Loren Perry acquitted and that’s all that matters.”
Part 2 - Loren Perry was found guilty in the kidnapping of Bailey Reynolds
Crowds swarmed the Toms River Municipal Court Room to see the trial of the century take place before their eyes. Seating, standing room, hallway room, even outside the building room were all taken up.
Judge Marlene Lynch Ford of the Metropolitan Superior Court presided over the trial. An Attorney from Metropolitan East represented Perry. Meanwhile the team of Dean Mabie, Robert Kukfa, and Luke Cox for New Jersey pressed for conviction.
East’s witnesses were not as strong as the Prosecution's and that led to serious issues during questioning. There was very little drama in this case as it concerns objections and witness meltdowns. That fact probably helped Mabie, Kukfa, and Cox get a favorable verdict. When it was handed down, Perry was found guilty.
Mabie for the State:
“I feel great! It was a lot of hard work put into curating all of the facts and evidence to try to convince the jury he was guilty. Robert, Luke, and I worked very hard and I couldn’t be prouder of the outcome. I think the jury made the right decision.”
Loren Perry tried to run out of the room and was subsequently tackled and sent to maximum security prison, the end.
This is based on a performance put on by Mr. Blessing’s Political and Legal Education Class called “Mock Trial”.
