STORY: "Mistrial declared in death of Richland toddler," by reporter Kristan K. Kraemer, published by the Tri-City Herald on May 10, 2013.
GIST: "Twelve jurors believed Ryder Morrison's death was someone's fault, but the Benton County panel couldn't agree on who did it. After
19 hours of deliberations during four days, the jury in the
manslaughter trial of Kelli A. Jacobsen -- the toddler's live-in nanny
-- revealed Friday that they were at an impasse. Their votes
varied from the beginning. They started out evenly split, then at one
point near the end hit 11 in favor of a conviction, one juror told the
Herald. But when the tally shifted again to nine for "guilty" and
three for "not guilty" after lunch Friday -- just before they were to
return to court -- the panel knew they never would reach a unanimous
decision......... Just hours after the mistrial, the juror said
he already had heard about comments circulating online that said the
jurors were cold-hearted for not convicting Jacobsen, and that it should
have been obvious who killed Ryder. The man said everybody put a lot of thought into the deliberations. "I
took the evidence as it was presented to me by the experts, and
listened to the cross-examination of the experts, and the time frame
that was allotted by the experts for which the injuries occurred," he
said. "And that's what I based my decision on." "Our justice system is what it is, and that's how it works," he said."
The entire story can be found at:
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/05/10/2390146/mistrial-declared-in-death-of.html
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