JULIAN SALAZAR SOLIZ - 5 yo -(2010) Travis County TX

Defendant Attorney Cause Setting Date/Time Court Floor Type Charge
TURNER NICHOLE COLLINS KYLE B D-1-DC-10-100052 12/9/11 09:00 427TH 3 DESG INJURY CHILD SBI/MENTAL


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TURNER NICHOLE COLLINS KYLE B D-1-DC-10-100052 1/25/12 09:00 427TH 3 JURY INJURY CHILD SBI/MENTAL

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so its gonna be 2 yrs now that my nephew Julian Salazar Solis was murdered and he (we) still have not seen JUSTICE!!! My sister met with the prosecuter last week and they told her there were still so many trials ahead of her....wow!! I wonder if they all involved a child being murdered.....i know everyone deserves Justice dont get me wrong...it just hurts me as his tia knowing that the person responsible for this is running FREE while my nephew is no longer here. Better yet it pisses me the hell off!!!! WE NEED JUSTICE FOR JULIAN ASASP!!!! If anybody has any ideas of wut we can do to speed up the process plz let it be known were planning to stand in front of the court house with signs very soon and would really love the support of our family, friends and neighborhoods!!! ***JUSTICE FOR JULIAN****

Five-year-old Julian Soliz had officially been missing for three
hours when Jessica Lyon saw him lying facedown in a grassy North Austin
yard.
He wasn't moving. He didn't seem to be breathing. And he didn't answer when Lyon shouted at him.
"I
yelled, 'Honey, wake up; honey, wake up. You need to wake up so I know
you're OK,' " Lyon tearfully told a Travis County jury Monday afternoon.
"He never responded."
Lyon's testimony came on the first day in
the trial of Nichole Turner, an Austin woman accused of beating Julian
to death in April 2010. Turner, 24, is charged with injury to a child
and, if convicted, could face life in prison.
Turner's attorney,
Kyle Collins, did not give an opening statement and, therefore, did not
offer his client's version of events. But prosecutors painted Turner as
an abusive caretaker in a tumultuous relationship with Julian's father,
Leonard Soliz.
Julian was living with Turner at her Wells
Branch-area apartment in March 2010 when the relationship between Turner
and Soliz soured, prosecutor Victoria Winkeler told the jury.
Soliz had stopped coming home, she said, but Julian continued to live with Turner.
Around
that time, Julian began showing signs of abuse, arriving at school with
a black eye and complaining that his shoulder hurt, Winkeler said.
Shortly
after 7 a.m. April 10, 2010, Turner called the police to report that
Julian was missing. She told them that she had looked for him, driving
to a local park, a duck pond and the neighborhoods around the apartment
complex before giving up and calling authorities, Winkeler said.
But Turner's story was inconsistent and the timeline of events changed frequently, Winkeler said.
During
her interviews with police that day, Turner said that she had hit
Julian several days before he disappeared, beating him with a belt for
lying, Winkeler told the jury.
In an arrest affidavit filed in
July 2010, police stated that Turner said she had "lost control" and may
have hit him in the abdomen.
A medical examiner later found the boy had nearly 60 bruises and contusions on his body and had died from internal bleeding.
"He was beaten to death, ladies and gentlemen," Winkeler said.
At
around 10 a.m. April 10, while Turner was speaking to police, Wells
Branch resident Lyon and her 2-year-old son were taking a walk when Lyon
thought she saw something in the tall grass of a yard near the
intersections of Wells Port Drive and Wells Port Cove. She looked again
and saw Julian lying facedown against a fence.
"I thought it was fake," Lyon told the jury. "I was thinking, 'Is it Halloween?' I didn't understand why a body would be there."
Lyon called the police. Prosecutors did not theorize Monday about how the boy got there.
The trial continues today in District Judge Jim Coronado's courtroom.
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/trial-of-woman-accused-in-childs-2010-death-2293205.html

Kindergartner Julian Soliz's lifeless and badly bruised body his face
down in foliage and arms at his sides appeared to have been placed
there, a Travis County sheriff's detective told jurors Tuesday during
the beating death trial of the woman who was caring for the boy at the
time.
"It's abnormal for a child to be laying face down. It seemed
so unnatural with his hands at his sides," said Sylvia Leal, a
detective who investigated the scene where the 5-year-old's body was
found April 10, 2010, in heavy brush outside a home in the Wells Branch
area.
"Was it a strange scene?" asked Travis County prosecutor Jeremy Sylestine.
"A very strange scene," Leal said.
Nichole Turner, 24, who had dated Julian's father, is charged with injury to a child and could face life in prison if convicted.
Prosecutors
spent most of the trial's second day establishing evidence for their
case against Turner, who called police at 7 a.m. to report the boy
missing from her apartment in northern Travis County. She told the 911
operator that she last saw Julian the night before at about 10 p.m.
Turner and Julian's father, Leonard Soliz, had been living together, but
the relationship soured in March 2010, prosecutors said. That was about
the time that Soliz was jailed on a weapons charge.
According to
testimony, there were discrepancies in Turner's statements the day
Julian's body was found. Turner told 911 operator Samantha Butler that
the front door to her apartment was unlocked but closed. Another officer
testified that Turner said the door was wide open when she awoke.
The
six-woman, six-man jury also heard the six-minute 911 call between
Turner and Butler. Turner's voice sounded shaken, but when Turner's
attorney, Kyle Collins, asked Butler if his client sounded distraught,
Butler replied: "She was calmer than most people would be missing her
child."
Other testimony Tuesday dealt with Julian's father,
Leonard Soliz. Officers said Soliz, who had been notified early in the
day that the boy was missing, was cutting hair at a Montopolis salon
that afternoon when officials arrived to notify him of the boy's death.
He broke down crying, they said. "He fell to his knees," said Terri
Wilhelm, a now-retired sheriff's office victim counselor.
There
were disturbing moments in court when prosecutors showed photos of
Julian's body, clad in a black jacket, red shorts and multicolor tennis
shoes. His body had scratches on the chest and bruises on the buttocks,
abdomen, legs, back, neck and face. Coronado allowed most of the photos
to be shown on the court's TV monitors, though photos of Julian's face
were shown only to the jury.
Today, the jury is expected to hear
testimony about three interviews Turner had with authorities. Collins
asked District Judge Jim Coronado on Tuesday to suppress all the
interviews because he said his client was not read her rights. The judge
refused, ruling that the interviews were voluntary and that Turner was
not in custody.
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/witnesses-in-boys-beating-death-case-testify-to-2295721.html

A Travis County jury Friday night found Nichole Turner guilty of
injury to a child in the death of 5-year-old Julian Soliz, who had been
in her care in April 2010.
The jury deliberated for about 90
minutes before returning the verdict shortly after 8 p.m. Wearing a
black, hooded Old Navy sweatshirt, Turner, 24, put her head on the
defense table as the jury was polled. She wept as sheriff's deputies led
her away in handcuffs.
District Judge Jim Coronado admonished
about 35 observers against any outbursts when the verdict in the
intensely emotional trial was read — the third such warning of the day.
About a dozen sheriff's deputies stood guard in the courtroom. More
deputies stood outside the building, and the crowd was allowed to leave
only in groups.
The jury will reconvene Monday morning to consider sentencing. Turner could face life in prison.
In
their closing arguments late Friday afternoon, prosecutors said Turner
was angry that the boy's father, Leonard Soliz, was seeing another
woman.
Defense lawyer Kyle Collins said his client awoke to find
the boy missing and packed her two children into her car to mount a
frantic search of the neighborhood.
Soliz died of dozens of
blunt-force injuries. His body was found in tall grass in the Wells
Branch area, roughly a mile from where Turner lived on April 10, 2010.
Turner,
taking the stand in her own defense, said she made the children chicken
strips and macaroni the night before Soliz was found dead.
She
said her daughter tried to wake her about 1 a.m., but she told the girl
to go back to sleep. Turner said Julian was missing from his room when
she woke at 5 a.m.
Prosecutor Victoria Winkeler aggressively went
after what she said were inconsistencies in Turner's story and claims
that conflicted with testimony from other witnesses.
Turner
remained composed throughout a vigorous cross-examination, including
Winkeler using cellphone records to dispute Turner's location when she
called 911.
"So the longitude and latitude of the Travis County
911 system is also out to get you," Winkeler said. "Is there anything
else new today you'd like to add, Miss Turner?"
Sheriff's
Detective Ramon Lopez testified Friday that he saw an interview with
Turner's daughter, who is not being identified at the request of
Coronado, during which the girl spoke of her mother giving a "whupping"
to Soliz, striking his head, buttocks, abdomen and legs.
Forensic
examiners earlier testified that Soliz bled to death from 59 or more
separate bruises. Two full cups of blood were found in his abdomen, they
said.
Prosecutors theorized Turner found the boy dead and dumped his body.
Collins
questioned how she could have moved the body from her apartment to her
car without that event being caught on surveillance video at the
complex.
Turner had been in a relationship with the boy's father that soured, although she remained the boy's caregiver.
Prosecutors painted Turner as a spurned woman who took her frustration out on the boy, who looked like his father.
Collins
described Leonard Soliz as a negligent father who was in and out of
jail, and he contrasted his behavior with the woman who was essentially
the boy's sole caregiver for the last month of his life.
"Nichole cared about Julian," Collins said. "Nichole's family cared about Julian."
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/nichole-turner-found-guilty-of-injury-to-a-2303636.html