TEEN WILL BE RETRIED FOR MURDER.Byline: Marianne McCarthy Special to the Daily News SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. - A Goleta teen acquitted of kidnapping Nicholas Markowitz two years ago will be retried re·tried v. Past tense and past participle of retry. in the slaying of the West Hills youth after the jury in his first trial deadlocked on the murder charge. Santa Barbara County prosecutors told a judge Thursday they will retry re·try tr.v. re·tried , re·try·ing, re·tries To try again. Verb 1. retry - hear or try a court case anew rehear Graham Pressley, 19, but will drop the special circumstance of murder during the commission of a kidnapping. If convicted of murder, Pressley could be sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. During his first trial, jurors voted 8-4 in favor of acquitting Pressley, who admitted on the witness stand that he dug Markowitz's grave, but said he did so because he feared for his life. Prosecutors say Pressley was part of a plot to kidnap Markowitz because of a drug debt the youth's halrother owed to Jesse James Hollywood Jesse James Hollywood (born January 28, 1980 in Los Angeles, California) was a drug dealer and fugitive. He allegedly kidnapped and ordered the murder of Nicholas Markowitz. of West Hills. Markowitz was abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point on Aug. 6, 2000, taken to Santa Barbara, and fatally shot two days later in a remote area known as Lizard's Mouth. Ryan Hoyt, 22, the accused triggerman, was convicted of first-degree murder and faces the death penalty when he is formally sentenced next month. Co-defendant Jesse Rugge, 22, was convicted of kidnapping but acquitted of murder. A third co-defendant, William Skidmore, 22, of Simi Valley, is scheduled to be tried in September. Hollywood is a fugitive, and federal officials believe he is in Canada. |
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