Guandique found responsible in homicide of Chandra Levy

Ingmar Guandique was determined responsible for the homicide of Chandra Levy. Guandique, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, was found guilty after the jury deliberated for four days. The court case is nevertheless a subject of controversy. You will find some who think Guandique was framed.

Murdering of Chandra Levy gets Ingmar Guandique convicted

After years of the case going unsolved, Ingmar Guandique was found guilty after the trial over the Levy homicide, based on MSNBC. Levy was an intern in WA, D.C., and was allegedly having an affair with then-Congressman Gary Condit. Ingmar Guandique is already serving a 10-year sentence for attacks on 2 women in Rock Creek Park in WA, D.C., from 2001. Levy’s remains were discovered in Rock Creek Park in 2001, a year after she was reported missing. What led prosecutors to try the already incarcerated inmate was testimony from his cellmate, who claimed that Guandique had admitted to killing her, however nothing else. Many debate about the murder trial. This is because many think Guandique is being blamed for something he did not do.

Odd evidence

Gary Condit was always acting suspiciously at the trial while even taking the Fifth Amendment at one point. This is what the illegal immigrant, Guandique, had his defense explain. Condit took the Fifth Amendment which can be done in order to stay away from being incriminated. The Washington Post explains that you will find also some concerns with the physical proof pointed out by the defense. Guandique ever coming into contact with Levy can't even be proven through physical evidence. A homicide weapons was never discovered by anyone. Also, the DNA on Levy's running tights didn't match Condit or Guandique's DNA. There wasn't any extra testing done even though the prosecution suggests the evidence may have just been handled improperly thus causing DNA to be tampered with.

Troubling conclusion to the high profile case

The problem is that the evidence does not all match up like it should. Due to Guandique's past crimes though, he may very well be responsible when it comes to Chandra Levy. The justice has been taken care of for Levy. Hopefully it was right though.

Articles cited

MSNBC

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Washington Post

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