Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly's defense confirmed that seven jurors wanted a 'not guilty' verdict, while 'one, lone holdout' wanted to convict, resulting in a mistrial.
Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly’s defense confirmed to Fox News Digital that there was 'one, lone holdout' who wanted to convict, while the remaining jurors sought an acquittal. Arizona Superior Court Judge Thomas Fink declared that the case ended in a mistrial on Monday, as the jurors were unable to reach a unanimous decision to convict Kelly of second-degree murder or any of the lower counts of manslaughter, negligent homicide or aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Prosecutor Mike Jetter maintained in his closing argument that there was 'no justification' to use deadly physical force upon seeing 'two unarmed men walking two fences away' and claimed Kelly pulled out his AK-47, stepped out onto his back patio and, without any verbal warning, fired nine times. The defense said while Kelly would have been justified in using deadly physical force, the elderly rancher did not.
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