Editor’s note: Your ProbateShark asks, why lawyers in the Probate Court of Cook County who murder their aged wards are given a pass and allowed to partake in the creativity of the wards’ estates? Examples; the Wyman, Gore, Tyler and Sykes estates. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
Lawyer sentenced to life for murdering Eddy Curry’s ex-girlfriend and child
Last Modified: Apr 5, 2013 02:19AM
Fredrick Goings told the relatives of former
Chicago Bull Eddy Curry’s ex-girlfriend that he still “loved” her and the baby
he was convicted of killing in a tyrannical rage.
“My case was a rush to judgment,” the disgraced
lawyer said Thursday minutes before he attempted to sway a Cook County judge for
a new trial for the 2009 double murder.
The legalese wasn’t of much help.
Judge Maura Slattery Boyle ripped into 40-year-old
Goings and called him a “fraud,” “shell” and “predator” with narcissistic
tendencies as she sentenced him to a life behind bars.
“You are a façade as a lawyer, as a man and as a
human being,” Slattery Boyle said.
Goings, who had an on-and-off romantic
relationship with Nova Henry and served as her lawyer in a child custody case
against Curry, was not only worried about the legal fees she planned to fight
from paying.
He was angry over losing control and more
importantly a luxurious lifestyle Henry could provide with $15,000-month in
child support payments from the famous athlete, the judge said.
That anger and arrogance pushed the abusive Goings
to execute 24-year-old Henry and Ava, the 10-month-old daughter Henry had with
Curry and had cradled in her arms when they were shot, assistant state’s
attorney James McKay said.
Left unharmed in the South Loop condo was Henry
and Curry’s then 3-year-old son, Noah, who was discovered playing in his mother
and sister’s blood.
“I miss my mommy and sister becase [sic] Fred did
something horrible to them,” Noah wrote in a statement that was entered into
court.
Nearly a half dozen family members took the stand
Thursday to describe Henry, who loved playing with Cabbage Patch Kids as a child
and tickling her grandmother with a feather. Ava, a “lady bug,” was a “happy”
baby who loved to dance like her mom, Henry’s aunt Toya Luvert said.
Luvert stared at Goings: “You are nothing but a
wolf in sheep’s clothing, nothing but the devil….[Henry] left you for good and
you couldn’t handle it. Why stay with someone who didn’t want you? Oh yea, the
money.”
While Henry’s mother said she forgave Goings, she
said his sentiments in court were “empty.”
“He has no soul in his body and anything that
comes out of his mouth is a lie,” Yolan Henry said.
Eric Grimmette was in the midst of laying his late
mother to rest when he was told of his daughter and granddaughter’s murders.
“You just never get any closure. You always have
that feeling about missing your babies,” he said.
Curry, who now plays for the Zhejiang Golden Bulls
in China and has custody of Noah, did not attend Goings’ February jury trial or
Thursday’s sentencing.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/19274017-418/lawyer-sentenced-to-life-for-murdering-eddy-currys-ex-girlfriend-and-child.html
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