"One of the most difficult tasks of a capital defense attorney is making the jury see the defendant as a three-dimensional human being," said Scott E. Sundby, a law professor at Washington and Lee University and an expert on capital murder juries.
No glamorous, high-profile, tell-all-book-deal, pill-problem, celebrity coke-murder jury for me this time.
In Apr 1965 Whitmore went on trial for the Edmonds murder; the jury could not decide on a verdict.
If they opted for murder, the jury had a choice: intentional murder or murder with depraved indifference for human life.
In addition to second-degree murder, the jury found Mr. Spector guilty of illegally discharging a firearm.
While convicting them of murder, the jury accepted their defence to a charge of attempting to murder armed officers who turned up to arrest them.
After Mr. Ring was convicted of murder, the jury was discharged and the judge went on to find two aggravating circumstances: that the murder was committed for financial gain and that it was committed in an especially heinous or depraved manner.
A17 Ex-Klansman Guilty of Murder A jury of eight whites and four blacks convicted Thomas E. Blanton Jr. of murdering four black girls in the bombing of a Baptist church in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963.
Once acquitted of murder (the jury deliberated for barely an hour), Bryant's husband and Milam were protected against further prosecution by the double jeopardy rule and so admitted the crime to Look magazine.
