A jury found the man guilty of murder and not capital murder around Thanksgiving and then sentenced him to 25 years in prison. A capital murder conviction would have meant an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole.
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He will now be eligible for parole after serving half his sentence. The holidays can benefit prosecutors, especially if a defendant hurt a family or took away a loved one, Keene said.
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He said the jury will be very aware that families of murder victims are facing a Christmas without their loved one. For the last two weeks of December, there are no jury trials in Dallas County.
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As Christmas creeps closer, jurors also become more reluctant to serve. Keene and state District Judge Carter Thompson, a Dallas County felony court judge, said jurors will probably only be influenced to give defendants more sympathy in cases of nonviolent crimes and when the accused have no criminal record.
Keene said that in these lower-level criminal cases, jurors will be reluctant to take parents away from their children during the holidays. Defense attorneys, he said, might be more willing to try lower-level cases such as building burglaries. Tuscano, 28, of Bradford were found in a burning rental car Aug.
Jeffrey Silverstein, the Bangor attorney who along with Hunter Tzovarras represents Daluz, said Thursday that a Hancock County jury in Malia Lowry murder trial was out 23 hours over two days. Lowry, 58, was acquitted in of murder but found guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter in the shooting death of her boyfriend. Lowry was accused of intentionally shooting Leighton, 26, six times with a.
Prosecutors argued at the trial that she acted out of jealousy after discovering Leighton was interested in another woman. She testified that she shot Leighton accidentally after he ordered her to hold the gun to his back in what the defense characterized as his death-obsessed sexual fantasies.
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Lowry was sentenced to 20 years in prison with all but six suspended and six years of probation. Jurors in Bangor deliberated for 11 hours on Wednesday without leaving the courthouse. They returned at 8: Thursday, when they viewed video of an individual running from a fire and surveillance footage of a defendant renting a room at the Ramada Inn in Bangor.
After a lunch break Thursday, jurors passed around the guns the prosecution has said were the murder weapons.
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Some jurors inspected the. They appeared to be checking the safety on the pistol. The prosecution has said Sexton is the man shown in the video running from the burning car and the man shown coming in and out of the Ramada Inn on Odlin Road.
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The trial, which began April 28 with jury selection, had opening statements May 1 and testimony starting May 2. Closings arguments and instructions were completed late Tuesday afternoon. Sexton took the stand Monday and said Daluz shot Borders accidentally but killed Tuscano, then, Lugdon intentionally. Sexton said that Daluz forced him to set the car on fire. The defendants are being held separately in holding cells in the courthouse but are brought into the courtroom when the judge addresses the jury.
Sexton is being held in the Hancock County Jail.