JURY DEADLOCKS IN RETRIAL IN '93 DOUBLE SLAYING : 11-1 VERDICT MIRRORS FIRST CASE.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer Jurors deadlocked Wednesday for a second time in the double murder trial of a Lancaster man with a violent history - and a lifetime prison sentence in another case. After three days of deliberating, jurors were unable to break their 11-1 deadlock favoring a guilty verdict for Homer Tyrone Lewis, charged in the shooting deaths of his girlfriend Diana Cross, 22, and her roommate Lisa Juve, 21. ``There was one juror juror n. any person who actually serves on a jury. Lists of potential jurors are chosen from various sources such as registered voters, automobile registration or telephone directories. who wouldn't even deliberate. Her mind was made up,'' Deputy District Attorney John Portillo said. ``She announced her decision early on in the deliberations and then refused to deliberate.'' Portillo said he argued before Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Michael Farrell For the Australian cricketer, see . For the American screen actor, see . Michael Farrell (born 1944) is an Irish civil rights activist and former leader of People's Democracy. that the juror should be removed from the panel for not fulfilling her obligation, but Farrell refused. Lewis' first trial ended in 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 in April after the jury hung 11-1, again in favor of guilty. Lewis' attorney, Zeke Perlo, did not return telephone calls. Portillo said it hasn't been decided whether to try the case a third time. Lewis is scheduled to return to court Nov. 4. Before his retrial retrial n. a new trial granted upon the motion of the losing party, based on obvious error, bias or newly-discovered evidence. (See: newly-discovered evidence) on murder charges, Lewis was tried and convicted in a separate case on charges of soliciting the murders of nine witnesses, including his wife, in the double murder case. Lewis was sentenced in July to 243 years to life in prison in that case. The intended victims were witnesses who testified at Lewis' preliminary hearing in January 1994 and people named in police reports, officials said. They included Lewis' wife, who court records said had gone looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. him at the women's apartment shortly before their bodies were found. ``I'm glad I got him locked away on the other case,'' Portillo said, referring to the murder solicitation case. As in the first trial, Portillo said the defense tried to blame Juve's boyfriend, Valbert Lumas, who found the women's bodies Oct. 20, 1993, in their apartment. The day before Cross told Lewis she wanted to end their relationship and the couple fought. Lewis, who had lived with his wife about two miles from his girlfriend's apartment, was on parole at the time of the shootings. He had been released from prison four months earlier after serving seven years for a 1986 voluntary manslaughter The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. conviction. In 1983, Lewis was convicted for kidnapping kidnapping, in law, the taking away of a person by force, threat, or deceit, with intent to cause him to be detained against his will. Kidnapping may be done for ransom or for political or other purposes. . Deputies found Juve dead and Cross dying, both shot in the head in the apartment they shared with their baby daughters on East Avenue I. The infants were found unharmed in the apartment. Juve had called her social worker shortly before the bodies were found to say Lewis had hit Cross the night before and had come back to the apartment to talk to Cross, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. court records. Juve feared eviction The removal of a tenant from possession of premises in which he or she resides or has a property interest done by a landlord either by reentry upon the premises or through a court action. because of the fight, court records show. |
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