DEADLOCKED JURY ENDS TRIAL IN MAN'S 1994 SHOOTING DEATH.Byline: Staff and Wire Services LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. - A judge declared a mistrial A courtroom trial that has been terminated prior to its normal conclusion. A mistrial has no legal effect and is considered an invalid or nugatory trial. It differs from a "new trial," which recognizes that a trial was completed but was set aside so that the issues could be Tuesday after jurors deadlocked dead·lock n. 1. A standstill resulting from the opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions. 2. Sports A tied score. 3. on charges against a Lancaster man charged in a neighbor's 1994 shooting death. The downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or Superior Court panel had deliberated just over two days before telling Judge Robert J. Perry that it was deadlocked 6-6 in the case against Armando Avalos Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the , 28. Flores is charged in the Aug. 12, 1994, shooting death of neighbor Javier Rodriguez, a 29-year-old father of three, and the wounding of another man, who is now in prison on drug and assault charges. Authorities said the men were shot during an argument that started after Rodriguez complained about the noise from Flores' car alarm. The men had been involved in a continuing feud that also involved Flores' two brothers, officials said. Flores drove off with a brother after the shooting and eluded authorities for six years. He was arrested in December 2000 by the Los Angeles County sheriff's fugitive unit as he was picking up his wife at a Los Angeles bus station, authorities said. Flores is scheduled to make his next court appearance later this month in Lancaster. |
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