It's August 2016. Inside a courtroom in Detroit, Michigan, 25-year-old Maxwell Barak was

waiting to hear his fate. Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway told the packed courtroom that she had received a note from the jury, saying

they had reached a verdict after the 8-day trial.

About eight months earlier, in December 2015, 24-year-old Kajevia Globe's body had been discovered in a trash can outside a vacant home.

It would be two months before her ex-boyfriend, Maxwell

Barak, would be arrested and charged with her murder. But in a case with no

official cause of death, no definitive murder weapon, and another suspect with a pretty convincing motive, it wouldn't necessarily be an open and shut case.

Kajevia's friends and family members were likely holding their breath

while the verdict was being read.

Maxwell Barak, on the other hand, couldn't help but smile.

This is Jillian and in partnership with law and crime, you are listening to Court Junkie, episode 159.

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