Courteney Stuart
Day Two
Thursday, February 9 - afternoon
When University of North Carolina lacrosse player MIke Burns came to visit friends at UVA in the winter of 2010, he witnessed an altercation between George Huguely and Yeardley Love that prosecutors allege foreshadowed her death in the morning hours of May 3.
Related stories
• Tough morning: Photos bring tears at Huguely trial
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Hawes Spencer
Despite the previous day's revelation that after getting brutally beaten Yeardley Love survived for two hours, longtime Hook legal analyst David Heilberg indicates that he stands by his prognostication that a first-degree murder conviction remains a possibility.
Previous day's story
• Crib death? Defense insists Huguely merely 'contributed'
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Courteney Stuart
Day Four
Monday, February 13 - PM
From a hemorrhage in her neck suggestive of strangulation to facial injuries consistent with smothering to signs of blunt force trauma on nearly every part of her body, the injuries apparent on the body of Yeardley Love conjure an image of a terrifyingly violent encounter.
More trial stories
• Bombshells away: Huguely prosecution readies blood evidence
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Hawes Spencer
Huguely suited up for lacrosse action. Fall 2006 - Having excelled as both a lacrosse player (and as the starting football quarterback) at the Landon School, Huguely enrolls in the University of Virginia to begin training as a varsity lacrosse player.
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Hawes Spencer
After getting taunted as a less-talented sex partner than a rival lacrosse player, George W. Huguely V sent on-again/off-again girlfriend Yeardley Love an email that he may live to regret: "I should have killed you."
However, the first airing of that potentially damaging message in Huguely's first-degree murder trial did little to deter the defense theory, which began unfolding Wednesday after nearly two years of speculation. Defense lawyer Francis McQ. Lawrence says his client's actions amount to nothing worse than involuntary manslaughter.
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Hawes Spencer
Some fresh Huguely stories
• Forensic litany: Lots of exhibits, less DNA evidence
• Tuesday testimony: Huguely jurors get lesson in brain bleeding
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Hawes Spencer
Day Three
Friday, February 10
A police interrogation videotape began with a groggy George W. Huguely V recounting copious amounts of alcohol he began consuming that fateful Sunday morning and ending with him expressing real or staged disbelief about the Monday-morning death of Yeardley Love.
Related stories:
• Off steroids? Slimmer Huguely prompts chem speculation
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Hawes Spencer
The dramatically different look of the on-trial George Huguely could stem from a lack of steroids behind bars, says Hook legal analyst David Heilberg, who cautions that his theory about the prohibited muscle-building compounds is pure speculation.
Prior steroid story
• Dangerous rage? What compelled Huguely to attack?
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Hawes Spencer
Day Two
Thursday, February 9 - morning
Jurors responded stoically as they got their first painful glimpse of a deceased Yeardley Love on Thursday morning, as the prosecution in the trial of accused murderer George W. Huguely V launched a second day of testimony with graphic photographs amid the testimony of a doctor, two police officers, and a pair of emergency medical technicians.
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Hawes Spencer
Day Five
Tuesday, February 14
Jurors became students Tuesday morning as Medical College of Virginia-based brain doctor Christine Fuller testified about the various cuts and blood she found in the brain of Yeardley Love, the UVA students whose 2010 death launched the trial of the century, a murder case against her alleged killer, George W. Huguely V.
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