After a day of deliberations, a jury has found Alessandro Giamichele guilty of killing Marko Bakir.
The 12 jury members issued the verdict to a Hamilton Superior Court Chamber on Tuesday morning, where Bakir’s members sat along with a series of homicide detectives.
Giammichele, who passed through Gino, sat in the prisoner’s box. Hamilton’s 31 -year -old player is high with a dark beard. It seemed not to have an external reaction on the verdict.
Bakir’s members gasped and cried when the verdict was read, and hugged the crown lawyers later.
Giammichele was accused of first degree murder in 2022 for orchestrating death by Bakir in 2018. He declared himself innocent.
Another man Abdelaziz Ibrahim He was also accused of Bakir’s first degree murder, but died before the charges were resolved. He was accused of squeezing the trigger on behalf of Giammichele.
Judge Toni Skarica had finished instructing the jury of 12 people on Monday at 10:30 am, he had told them that they could find Giamichele not guilty, guilty of first degree murder, guilty of second degree murder or guilty of man of man.
“I totally agree with that verdict,” Skarica told the jury on Tuesday morning.
Crown said Giammichele hired Hitman
In the trial, the crown and the defense agreed that in September 2018, Bakir lent Giammichele, a drug dealer, $ 100,000 as an investment in what the jury heard was probably a business related to drugs. The couple, who had approached, signed a contract with a payment plan, but Giammichele stopped following him after two partial payments.
On November 22, 2018 around 8:15 PM, Ibrahim shot Bakir, 31, to death in front of his home in the West Mountain area of Hamilton, the crown and the defense agreed.
The crown said it was Giammichele who hired Ibrahim through an alleged drug dealer.
Giammichele did, at least in part, because Bakir threatened to expose his criminal lifestyle to Giammichele’s father and take him to court, the crown said.
“Marko gave Gino $ 100,000 and Gino had 100,000 reasons to love him dead,” said the assistant lawyer Elise Quinn in his final argument on May 31.
Giamichele turned off his phone and led Ibrahim to the shooting scene, and communicated with Ibrahim before and after Ibrahim shot Bakir five times, Quinn said.
“This is not a series of bad luck for Gino,” said Quinn. “The cumulative effect of these events makes it absolutely unlikely that these are only a series of unfortunate coincidences, especially when you consider all other evidence in this case.”
For example, the crown interviewed a witness during the trial he told the Police that Giammichele had confessed to him.
The defense argued that the witness lied and only told the police because they kept questioning him.
The crown also presented evidence that when it was in the Dominican Republic in 2019, Giammichele used Google to translate phrases on him as a hired killer and involved in violent crimes. The defense had responded that Giammichele boasted to impress women and other people in drug trafficking.
Shooter died of drug poisoning in 2022
During the trial, the defense lawyer Kendra Stanyon had argued that the evidence against her client was not conclusive and did not establish her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
“The suspicion is not enough. ‘Maybe’, it is not enough.
Stanyon also said that the crown narrative was illogical. For example, she said that Giammichele already had a plan to meet Bakir in a private place to return the return, so she had no need to kill him, especially in a neighborhood full of potential witnesses.
What is more, Stanyon added, Giammichele did nothing to hide potential evidence against her on her phone, which she said she unlocked for the police.
But ultimately, the jury accepted the version of the Crown events when they found Giammichele responsible for Bakir’s death.
The accused shooter, Ibrahim, was 25 when he died in August 2022 at the Central East Central Center in Lindsay, Ontario. 2024’s investigation found that Hamilton’s man accidentally died of acute fentanyl toxicity.
