Friday, September 14, 2012
Closing arguments are scheduled for Friday, Sept. 14, in the murder trial of a Fraser man accused of stabbing a Macomb Township woman in the neck with steak knives in February 2011
The jury in the trial of 28-year-old Fraser man accused of brutally stabbing a Macomb Township woman in her home last year could reach a verdict as early as Friday. Joseph T. Reiner is charged with first-degree murder, assault with intent to murder and home invasion stemming from his alleged Feb. 23, 2011 attack on 69-year-old Joann Eisenhardt. Both the prosecution and defense rested their cases in Macomb County Circuit Court Thursday, according to court records, with the defense making a motion for a directed verdict. Judge Peter J. Maceroni denied this motion. Closing arguments are scheduled for Friday. If convicted, Reiner faces up to life in prison. Reiner is accused of breaking into Eisenhardt's home, stabbing her in the neck with two…
Monday, September 10, 2012
The trial of Joseph T. Reiner, who is accused of brutally stabbing a Macomb Township woman in her Fairchild Road home last year, continues in Circuit Court this week.
The first witnesses in the murder trial of a 28-year-old Fraser man accused of brutally stabbing a Macomb Township woman in her home last year are due to testify in Macomb County Circuit Court this week. Joseph T. Reiner is charged with first-degree murder, assault with intent to murder and home invasion stemming from his alleged Feb. 23, 2011 attack on 69-year-old Joann Eisenhardt. Eisenhardt, who was stabbed in the neck with two kitchen knives during the February attack, died Sept. 20, 2011 from what Macomb County Medical Examiner Dr. Daniel Spitz testified to be complications related to the original injuries. Reiner is accused of breaking into Eisenhardt's home, stabbing her and stealing $2 worth of jewelry, which Assistant Prosecutor …
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Joseph T. Reiner, 28, will be tried in circuit court on charges of first-degree murder, assault with intent to murder and home invasion stemming from the Feb. 23, 2011 attack on Macomb Township resident Joann Eisenhardt, 69.
Nineteen months after a Macomb Township woman was stabbed in her Fairchild Road home, the trial of her alleged murderer has begun. Fraser resident Joseph T. Reiner, 28, is charged with first-degree murder, assault with intent to murder and home invasion stemming from the Feb. 23, 2011 attack on 69-year-old Joann Eisenhardt. Eisenhardt, who was stabbed in the neck with two kitchen knives during the February attack, died Sept. 20, 2011 from what Macomb County Medical Examiner Dr. Daniel Spitz determined to be complications related to the original injuries. Reiner is accused of breaking into Eisenhardt's home, stabbing her and stealing several pieces of jewelry, which police later traced to an Eastpointe pawn shop owned by Hadrian Lewandowski…
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The assault-turned-murder case against Joseph T. Reiner will near the one year mark in district court following an unexpected adjournment Wednesday.
The absence of the man charged in the Feb. 23 murder of a Macomb Township woman forced Judge Douglas P. Shepherd to postpone the case yet again today in 41A District Court. Joseph T. Reiner, 28, was scheduled to make his final appearance in district court today to hear the testimony of Macomb County Medical Examiner Daniel Spitz and see his case bound over to circuit court. But Reiner never arrived. As a result of miscommunication within the Michigan Department of Corrections, Reiner was transferred from the Macomb Correctional Facility to two other locations, neither of which received the transportation paperwork needed to ensure Reiner's on-time arrival to court today. "It's 45 minutes past the appointed date and time ... I think it's …
Jenny Whalen
11:52 am on Friday, September 14, 2012
The court has taken a recess for lunch, but the jury will be given instruction and go to deliberate this case at 1 p.m. We could very well have a decision by the end of the day. The closing arguments were intense, much podium-pounding on the part of the defense. more ›