Learn the latest about the coronavirus, its spread, and protective measures. Enter Search Phrase Search. Home Government Close. Curbside Collection Change for Yard Waste. Report Capital Improvement Projects. Land Use Information. How to Start a Business. After being convicted, Greer appealed on the grounds that he was denied an impartial trial. Until that point in the trial, the jurors had been identified in open court by their names, and anyone in the courtroom could have gleaned information about their addresses, workplaces, and family.
The morning after the gang specialist testified, two jurors wrote the trial judge of concerns for their safety. When questioned by the judge, nine of the 14 seated jurors -which included two alternates- admitted talking with each other about their safety concerns.
And I hope they will be thinking about it. The jury convicted Mills and Bingham in July of multiple charges of murder, racketeering and conspiracy in a case involving 17 murders and attempted murders dating back nearly 30 years. Jurors were then asked, in a separate proceeding, to determine whether Mills, 58, and Bingham, 59, should be sentenced to death or life in prison without the possibility of parole.
On Thursday, jurors told U. Jurors told Carter on Friday they were split nine to three in favor of death for Mills and eight to four in favor of life in prison for Bingham. Carter asked if the extra day of deliberations had any impact on the vote and they said only slightly, adding one juror moved from voting for life in prison to voting for death for Mills. After Carter declared the mistrial, authorities escorted the jurors from the courtroom to their cars, and the judge said their identities would not be revealed.
Bingham, in jail on robbery and drug charges, would have been released in Prosecutors said they will be held in solitary confinement 23 hours a day in a high-security wing that houses notorious convicts such as al-Qaida member Zacarias Moussaoui and Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski. Attorney Terri K.
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