Prosecutors in the trial of William Balfour, the man accused of
murdering members of Jennifer Hudson's family, are now expected to
focus on the youngest victim, the Oscar-winner's 7-year-old nephew,
Julian King.
In court Wednesday, prosecutors are likely to pick up where they left off with testimony about King's abduction and slaying.
Hudson
former brother-in-law, William Balfour, allegedly killed her mother and
brother at their Chicago home, then drove off with Julian in an SUV. He
supposedly shot him in the head behind a front seat.
A police officer testified about the frantic search for Hudson's
nephew, Julian King, nicknamed "juice box," who was found in an SUV
three days later. Prosecutors also played a surveillance video showing
Balfour getting out of a car at a gas station near the Hudson house on
Chicago's South Side before the killings. Prosecutors are trying to
show he was in the area at the time but this is something Balfour has
denied.
Tuesday, the prosecution showed jurors photographs of
the bloodied bodies of Hudson's mother and brother. Hudson shut her
eyes and held on to a spectators' bench as a police officer described
coming across her family's bloodied bodies. Hudson left the courtroom
before the grisly pictures were projected onto a screen.
Jennifer
Hudson took the witness stand for about 30 minutes Monday in sometimes
tearful testimony. Hudson, who was in Florida at the time of the
shootings, testified that she was dismayed when she learned in 2006
that her sister was going to marry Balfour, whom she said she always
disliked.