Phillips Trial: Jury selection
 

Circuit Judge Charles Arnold listens during jury selection.
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Defendant Joshua Phillips (right) talks with his attorney Richard D. Nichols during jury selection.
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Phillips Trial: Day 1, morning session

Steve Clifton (left) stands with supporters in the courtroom as his wife, Sheila, gets a hug during a recess. Steve Phillips (far right) and family were seated at the opposite side of the courtroom.
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Chief Assistant State Attorney Jay Plotkin and Circuit Judge Charles Arnold watch as JSO evidence technician David Chase describes where in the Phillips home he found blood.
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Sheila Clifton, mother of Maddie Clifton, testifies in the trial of Joshua Phillips, who is accused
of killing her 8-year-old daughter.
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State Attorney Harry Shorstein (left) and Defense Attorney Richard D. Nichols confer before the start of the first day of the Joshua Phillips trial at the Polk County Courthouse in Bartow.
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Melissa Phillips and Steve Phillips, mother and father of Joshua Phillips, listen to testimony
on the first day of their son's trial.
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Phillips Trial: Day 1, afternoon session

Jacksonville officer Don Tuten (left) helpscarry Johua Phillips' waterbed into court on Wednesday.
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Duval County Assistant Medical Examiner Bonifacio Floro examines autopsy photos
before they were shown to the jury.
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Duval County Assistant Medical Examiner Bonificio Floro describes the injuries to Maddie Clifton's head.
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Joshua Phillips holds hands with his mother, Melissa, after the two, attorney Richard D. Nichols
and Phillips' father, Steve, were questioned by Judge Charles Arnold.
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Sheila Clifton looks at photos of her neighborhood during testimony on Wednesday.
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Detective William Taylor shows how Joshua Phillips alledgedly used the Leatherman tool
 he is holding to stab Maddie Clifton in the throat.
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The Clifton family and their friends leave the courtroom graphic photographs were
introduced into evidence on Wednesday.
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Sheila Clifton listens to testimony of how her daughter, Maddie, was killed and the placement of her body under Joshua Phillips' waterbed.
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Circuit Judge Charles Arnold shows the jury a verdict form before excusing
jurors to deliberate Thursday.
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Jacksonville baliff Dean Lauramore carries evidence items to the jury room after instructions
were given to the jury on Thursday.
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Jessica Clifton (center) gives her mother, Sheila, a kiss before the start of a news conference
following the first-degree conviction of Joshua Phillips.
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State Attorney Harry Shorstein leads Sheila Clifton and the rest of the Clifton family out of the Polk County Courthouse on Thursday after Joshua Phillips was found guilty of first-degree murder.
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Harry Shorstein holds the bat that Joshua Phillips used in the death of Maddie Clifton
during closing arguments Thursday.
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Defense attorney Richard D. Nichols makes his closing arguments Thursday.
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Steve Clifton stands behind his wife, Sheila, and his daughter, Jessica, during a news conference
a short time after the guilty verdict against Joshua Phillips was announced Thursday.
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The Clifton family and friends of the family react after the jury announced it had found
Joshua Phillips guilty of first-degree murder.
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