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The state and the defense on Tuesday rested their cases in  the penalty phase of the Joshua Komisarjevsky case. This document shows what the defense claims are the "mitigating factors" as they try to convince the jury to give the defendent life in prison rather than the death penalty.

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In a document submitted at Superior Court in New Haven in the penalty phase of the trial of Joshua Komisarjevsky, he signs saying a child is his.


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This is the statement Joshua Komisarjevsky read during his attempt to prevent a video of his 9-year-old daughter being shown to jurors and heard by the public. Judge Jon C. Blue denied Komisarjevsky's request.
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These are some of the documents the Joshua Komisarjevsky defense team submitted this week

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Jurors considering whether Joshua Komisarjevsky should be executed for the 2007 Cheshire triple homicide or spend his life in prison listened to testimony from an expert on religion Tuesday and viewed part of a documentary on a Pentecostal summer camp for children. Here's a clip from the 2007 documentary, "Jesus Camp":



The defense team is trying to convince jurors that Komisarjevsky’s unorthodox upbringing, combined with the alleged sexual abuse he suffered as a child, is a mitigating factor.

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Dr. Leslie Lebowitz, who was hired by Komisarjevsky’s attorneys to do a psychological evaluation of him, said after about 60 hours of meetings with him, she believes his traumatic early memories or sexual abuse are true. These are documents submitted to the court during testimony in the penalty phase of the trial.

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As part of the evidence submitted in the penalty phase of the Joshua Komisarjesky case, defense attorneys have submitted numerous documents that form a trail leading to his religious upbringing. Bryce Whiting, who was pastor of a church in New Hampshire to which the Komisarjevsky family belonged in the mid-1990s, recalled going to the Komisarjevsky house when Joshua’s mother, Jude, called him late one night to report her son had seen something very disturbing. It was a “a dark spiritual being with glowing eyes,” the pastor said.


These are some of documents released during the trial.

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