By Mike Perleberg
Michael Moore, 43, was convicted Monday of murdering his parents in 2009 in Union, Kentucky.
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(Burlington, Ky.) - A Boone County jury has handed down four guilty verdicts against Michael Moore.
On Monday night, jurors in Boone Circuit Court decided to convict the 43-year-old of murdering his parents Warren, 66, and Madge Moore, 65, in 2009.
Closing arguments took place in the afternoon, then the jury was given the case. They returned at about 8:00 p.m. with guilty verdicts on two counts of murder as well as charges of tampering with evidence and making false statements, the Kentucky Enquirer reports.
Moore’s defense attorney, Joanne Lynch, had attempted to persuade the jury that the defendant shot his father in self-defense after Warren had snapped and shot his mother. Commonwealth Attorney Linda Tally Smith, however, contended that Moore shot each of his parents in the back of the head because of his drug addiction.
During closing arguments, Smith told jurors that Michael Moore’s first throught after committing the murders was “lie.”
“We’ll never know everything that happened in that house that night,” Smith said, according to the newspaper. “There were only three people in the house. Two are dead. I submit to you, you can’t trust anything (the defendant) has said.”
The court will reconvene at 9:00 a.m. Wednesday to begin the sentencing phase of the trial. Moore faces the possibility of death.
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