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Съдебни заседатели в Чикаго признаха за виновен обвиняемия за убийствата на трима роднини на актрисата Дженифър Хъдсън през 2008 година, предаде БиБиСи. Извършителят Уилям Балфур е бивш съпруг на сестрата на Дженифър - Джулия. Прокуратурата настояваше, че той е убил майката, брата и седемгодишния племенник на носителката на "Оскар", след като сестра й отказала да се сдобри с него. Разговарях с Дженифър и Джулия Хъдсън след произнасянето на присъдата. Те и двете са много доволни и оценяват съдействието, което им осигурихме. Облекчени са и се надяваме присъдата да им даде някакво усещане за справедливост, каза прокурорът по делото. Дженифър Хъдсън беше първият свидетел на процеса и присъстваше на всички заседания с показания, припомня БиБиСи.
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Hudson leaves court before grisly photos shown Updated April 24, 2012 5:03 p.m. Posted April 24, 2012 12:17 p.m. CHICAGO (WLS) - Jennifer Hudson has left the courtroom in the trial of the man accused of killing her family. She walked out Tuesday afternoon shortly before prosecutors displayed pictures of her mother and brother's bloodied bodies. Several photographs showed Hudson's mother sprawled face down on the floor and blood staining her white nightgown. Hudson's former brother-in-law, William Balfour, is accused of killing her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in a fit of jealous rage over his estranged wife. The forensics expert who was on the scene the day of the killings testified that Hudson's mother may have used a broom by her hand in one picture to fend off the attacker. Prosecutors often given family members advance notice of when they will be showing such unsettling evidence. CHICAGO (WLS) - Jennifer Hudson's half-brother testified about the alleged murder weapon at the trial of the man accused of killing the singer's three family members. A prosecutor held out the silver and black .45-caliber handgun in front of witness Lonnie Simpson on Tuesday. Simpson said he gave the gun to Hudson's brother, Jason Hudson. Prosecutors say William Balfour stole the gun in 2008 and used it to kill Jason Hudson, as well as Jennifer Hudson's mother and 7-year-old nephew. Simpson also testified that he sold drugs with Jason Hudson. But Simpson says his half-brother only sold small bags of drugs and didn't have enemies in his neighborhood. The defense suggested in opening statements that Jason Hudson's drug dealings could have led to the killings. Balfour has pleaded not guilty. CHICAGO (WLS) - Prosecutors have presented their first major video evidence in the trial the man accused of killing Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew. Prosecutors played a 3-minute-long surveillance video Tuesday afternoon that showed the defendant, William Balfour, getting out of a car at a gas station not far from where the murders occurred on Oct. 24, 2008. Balfour has said he wasn't in the area at the time. Hudson rested her head on her knees for several minutes as the video played on a courtroom screen. Balfour has pleaded not guilty. He is the ex-husband of Hudson's sister, Julia Hudson. Jennifer and Julia Hudson both testified Monday. CHICAGO (WLS) - Chicago police officers have offered testimony in the trial of the man accused of killing Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson's family. The first two witnesses Tuesday were Chicago police officers involved in the investigation of the murders of Hudson's mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew. One officer described the crime scene on the day of the murders and another described the frantic search for Hudson's nephew who was later found shot dead. Hudson and her sister, Julia Hudson, testified Monday, the first day of the trial. William Balfour has pleaded not guilty in the killings. He is the ex-husband of Julia Hudson. Two of Balfour's acquaintances also testified Tuesday. Both men talked about seeing Balfour in a green Chrysler on the day of the murders. CHICAGO (WLS) - The trial of the man charged with murdering three of Jennifer Hudson's family members resumed Tuesday with the Oscar-winner shutting her eyes as a police officer described finding her dead family members. Hudson sat next to her fiancé as prosecutors shifted their focus to presenting crime scene evidence in the case against her former brother-in-law, William Balfour. Hudson hung her head and shut her eyes as Chicago police Sgt. David Dowling described finding her mother's body sprawled in the living room with gunshot wounds through her back. Hudson didn't move as Dowling described finding her brother dead in his bed of a gunshot wound to the head. His sheets were pulled up as if he had been sleeping. Balfour was estranged from his wife, Hudson's sister, at the time of the killings. He has pleaded not guilty to murdering Hudson's mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew. Hudson, wearing a black top and green skirt, sat in a fourth row bench well within view of jurors Tuesday. Her sister and Balfour's ex-wife, Julia Hudson, sat on her left. Chicago prosecutors created a buzz Monday by calling the Oscar winner and "American Idol" finalist as their first witness, but on Tuesday they began getting down to the nitty-gritty of their case. With no surviving witnesses to the murders, prosecutors must offer overwhelming circumstantial evidence that Balfour committed the grisly crime on Oct. 24, 2008. They are expected to introduce evidence in the next few days that includes cellphone records and security-camera footage that place Balfour in the area of the killings, because he denies he was there. Another challenge will be tying Balfour to the alleged murder weapon, a silver and black .45-calibre handgun that sat Monday on a stack of papers at the prosecution table in plain view of jurors and Jennifer Hudson. Public defender Amy Thompson told jurors during her opening statement that DNA found on the gun didn't match Balfour, which "absolutely, positively" excludes him as the killer. But prosecutors claim that Balfour targeted the family in a horrific act of vindictiveness against his ex-wife. Shortly after Thompson and prosecutors laid out their cases, Jennifer Hudson took the witness stand in sometimes tearful, gut-wrenching testimony. Hudson, who was in Florida at the time of the shootings, spoke of her family and her reaction to her sister, Julia Hudson, telling her in 2006 that she was marrying Balfour. "None of us wanted her to marry him," the 30-year-old said, her voice cracking as she struggled to hold back tears. Later, Julia Hudson described how Balfour repeatedly threatened her and her family after she rejected his pleas in May 2008. "He said, `If you leave me, you will be the last to die. I'll kill your family first,"' she said, her voice quivering. Under cross-examination, she acknowledged she was still having sex with Balfour days before the slayings. The killings happened the day after her birthday. Prosecutors believe that Balfour became enraged by balloons he saw at the home that he thought were from her new boyfriend. Prosecutors said Balfour went inside the three-story house around 9 a.m. and shot Hudson's mother, 57-year-old Darnell Donerson, in the living room, then shot her 29-year-old brother, Jason Hudson, twice in the head as he lay in bed. Investigators allege he then drove off in Jason Hudson's sport utility vehicle with 7-year-old Julian inside, and later shot the boy in the head as he lay behind a front seat. If convicted of at least two of the murder counts, Balfour would face a mandatory life sentence. The Associated Press Contributed To This Report © Content Copyright 2012 WLS Radio 890AM and WLSAM.com. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.