Though defense lawyer Louis Badwey told jurors Enright acted in self defense following a sexual assault, he did not allude to any evidence other than her claim.
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The Worcester Telegram & Gazettecovered the first day of the trial on Monday, which featured opening arguments and testimony from several witnesses. What early arguments allege in Enright’s trial He was a former Eagle Scout who loved the outdoors, and in school studied to become an HVAC technician, The Gardner News reported. She entered a not guilty plea.Ĭhicklis was remembered as a kind, loving person. “When the rug was removed, it appeared that blood had seeped down through the floorboards.”Įnright was arrested at the end of July and held without bail on a murder charge, according to the Worcester District Attorney’s Office.
“It was apparent that the treehouse had recently been cleaned and a new rug had been placed on the floor,” court documents obtained by MassLive read. Though Enright denied being with Chicklis in the treehouse or her car that day, investigators found Chicklis’s blood on the stairs leading to the treehouse, inside the treehouse, under the treehouse, and in Enright’s car. When questioned, Enright told police she made plans to meet Chicklis at her home and they spent the day drinking alcohol before Chicklis left to buy drugs and didn’t come back. In 2018, a family member of Chicklis told NBC10 the two had dated briefly. reported that Chicklis and Enright had known each other, as former classmates at Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School. His body wasn’t found until July 10, discovered by a jogger about six miles up the road, and New Hampshire authorities ruled his death a homicide.Īuthorities also said his phone records place him at 171 Packard Hill Road in Ashburnham on June 23, a property that belongs to Enright’s father. Police couldn’t find evidence he’d ever arrived there, and eventually found his gray Honda Civic about 40 miles west of Windham in a shopping center on June 29. What happened in 2018Ĭhicklis left his Westminster home on June 23 to visit family in Windham, N.H., reported in 2018, but he never made it, and his family reported him missing the next day.
The trial is expected to take several weeks, include admission of many pieces of evidence, and testimony from multiple witnesses.
On Monday, her jury trial began in Worcester Superior Court, with prosecutors alleging a calculated crime and the defense claiming Enright killed Chicklis in self defense after he sexually assaulted her, the Telegram & Gazette reported. In the summer of 2018, Julia Enright, then 21, was accused of stabbing former classmate Brandon Chicklis, 20, of Westminster, to death in a treehouse near her Ashburnham home and dumping his body on the side of a road. Christine Peterson/Worcester Telegram & Gazette via AP Julia Enright is brought into Gardner District Court for arraignment, Tuesday, Jin Worcester, Mass. Julia Enright, 24, is on trial for the 2018 murder of Brandon Chicklis, whom she allegedly stabbed to death in a treehouse outfitted with restraints.
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