Gobert convicted of capital murder
Jury rejects self-defense claims, will begin weighing possible death sentence today
By Steven Kreytak
AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Updated: 10:22 p.m. Tuesday, March 2, 2010
It took great courage, prosecutor Allison Wetzel told a Travis County jury Tuesday, for an 11-year-old boy to come to court last week and testify about the morning in 2003 when he was injured and his mother was fatally stabbed in their North Austin apartment.
"This child was left for dead by this coward over there," Wetzel said while pointing at Milton Dwayne Gobert.
Wetzel said the boy, who was stabbed four times in the chest but recovered, did it for his mother, Mel Kernena Cotton, a Velocity Credit Union teller.
Wetzel then called for jury members to find Gobert guilty of capital murder.
They did, convicting Gobert in about 3½ hours.
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