SAGINAW, MI — Jennifer Webb met with Kenneth T. Bluew on the night of her death to speak with him about telling his wife about their unborn son and about her intent to put his name on the birth certificate, prosecutors say.

But unless a judge agrees with prosecutors, a jury won't hear the statements Webb made to her family and friends about Bluew, the now-suspended Buena Vista police officer who is charged in her death.

In a written motion, Saginaw County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Jeffrey D. Stroud argues that county Circuit Judge Darnell Jackson should allow a jury to hear testimony from Webb's parents and friends, who will testify, Stroud writes, that Webb, who was 8 months pregnant with a son she intended to name Braxton, said Bluew “knew the baby was his,” that she intended to seek child support from Bluew through the county Friend of the Court, that she was “going to discuss with (Bluew) about telling his wife about the baby,” and that she was meeting with him on North Outer Drive in Buena Vista Township the night she died.

Stroud filed the motion as well as a motion for discovery regarding the expert witnesses that Bluew's attorney intends to call to testify, on Thursday. Friday was the deadline for prosecutors and Bluew's attorney, Rod O'Farrell, to file motions in Bluew's case.

Oral arguments on the motions, including four motions that O'Farrell filed Wednesday, is scheduled for Friday. Bluew, who is charged with first-degree premeditated murder, is scheduled for a Sept. 19 trial before Jackson.

Bluew, Stroud writes, “was alone” on duty late Aug. 30 when Buena Vista police officer Tim Patterson arrived at North Outer and Hack in Buena Vista, where Webb's body “was found hanging from a(n) (extension) cord tied to the roof rack of her own vehicle.” Bluew “claimed to have discovered a suicide note in (Webb's) purse, supporting his assertions that Webb must have committed suicide,” Stroud writes.

Police treated Webb's death as a suicide until Buena Vista Police Sgt. Sean Waterman spoke with Webb's parents, who “responded that there was no way possible” that she committed suicide, Stroud writes.

Saginaw County District Judge Christopher S. Boyd, during Bluew's preliminary hearing, ruled that statements that Webb made to her parents and friends were inadmissible hearsay. In his motion, Stroud argues that the statements are not hearsay because some are not intended to be taken as facts and others are "statements of future intent" that counter a suicide theory.

Whether any of Webb's statements “were true or false is immaterial,” Stroud writes. “Their evidentiary value lay in the fact that the statements were made and the effect they had on the defendant, in essence providing circumstantial evidence of his motive and the premeditated nature of his actions.”

Further, Stroud writes, Webb's “state of mind” — that, according to her parents and friends, she was excited about the birth of Braxton and would not commit suicide — is of “paramount significance.”

“That (Bluew) may have been compelled to acknowledge paternity and pay child support for a child his wife had not been told about, whether (Webb) would have pursued that course or not, is a strong motive for murder and compelling evidence of premeditation,” Stroud writes.

In his motion for discovery, Stroud writes that O'Farrell has listed Stephen Kaufman from Alpena Regional Medical Center as a possible witness and has “verbally informed prosecutors that he has enlisted the services” of Elizabeth Laposata, the former Chief Medical Examiner of Rhode Island, as an expert in forensic pathology. While O'Farrell has not updated his witness list to include Laposata, Stroud writes, he has provided the prosecution with her curriculum vitae.

O'Farrell has not provided the prosecution, Stroud writes, with “either a report by the expert or a written description of the substance of the proposed testimony of the expert, the expert's opinion, and the underlying basis of that opinion.” Stroud asks Jackson to order O'Farrell to do so in order to prevent a situation where the prosecution is “disadvantaged in evaluating and addressing (the report's) content.”

Bluew, who lived in Saginaw Township, also is charged with assaulting a pregnant individual intentionally causing miscarriage or stillbirth of a fetus or embryo and two counts of possessing a firearm during the commission of a felony.

If convicted of first-degree murder, he would face a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. The assault charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.

Bluew remains jailed without bond. He was lodged at the Gratiot County Jail until last month, when he was moved back to the Saginaw County Jail.

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