Jessie Dotson
March 10, 2008 - Jessie Dotson appears in judge Ann Pugh's General
Sessions Division 7 courtroom.
(Alan Spearman / The Commercial Appeal)
September 27, 2010 - Jessie Dotson listens to opening arguments
during his trial Monday
in Judge James
Beasley Jr's courtroom for
the murder of 6 people and attempted
murder of 3 others on Lester
St. in 2008.
(Jim Weber / The Commercial Appeal)
September 27, 2010 - An X-ray of 9-year-old Cecil Dotson's skull
is shown to jurors
during the
prosecution's opening statement in the
trial of Jessie Dotson.
(Jim Weber / The Commercial Appeal)
October 9, 2010 - Jessie Dotson takes the witness stand in his
own defense
during the Lester Street Trial.
(Nikki Boertman / The Commercial Appeal)
October 9, 2010 - Jessie Dotson takes the witness stand in his
own defense
during the Lester Street Trial.
(Nikki Boertman / The Commercial Appeal)
October 9, 2010 - Jessie Dotson stands with arms wide open as he
states his claim of how
his confession
was coerced while taking the
witness stand in his own defense. Dotson
told a jury this morning
that he
was hiding under a bed when someone entered his
brother's
Lester Street home in 2008
and killed six men, women and children.
(Nikki Boertman / The Commercial Appeal)
Jessie Dotson contemplates as he is sentenced to death for each
of the six charges
for first-degree murder.
(Nikki Boertman / The Commercial Appeal)
Already sentenced to death for the 2008 murders of six people,
Jessie Dotson was given an
additional 120
years in prison for the
beatings and stabbings of three children who survived
the Lester
Street attack.
He was in court with attorney Gerald Skahan.
(Mike Maple / The Commercial Appeal)
Victims
His brother Cecil
Dotson, 30.
The brother's
girlfriend Marissa Williams, 27.
Hollis Seals, 33.
Shindri Roberson,
22.
