In the Rock Head trial. I thought that the dynamics of the jury’s deliberation would mean that they would default to Murder 2nd if they couldn’t agree unanimously on Murder 1st.
This strategy by Rock Head’s defense lawyers might be more clever than even they know. There might not be a jury in St. Louis County that could make up their minds in this stead. This means that McCulloch would have to spend the rest of his life or Rock Head’s life continuously empaneling juries and holding trials that get hung, just to keep him behind bars.
By the way, Miss Hanaway, where are you on this case? You could be a useful pinch-hitter here and bring a Federal felon-in-possession (i.e. of a firearm, which he admitted to possessing at the time, and he was a convicted felon at the time of the alleged murder of Sgt. McEntee) on him, and as it would be a Federal case, the jury pool would come from eastern Missouri, and would be likely to convict him on that charge. He then could spend about five in a Federal prison, probably a more secure facility than the St. Louis County Jail, and buy McCulloch some time and comfort in his effort to get him convicted of first-degree murder.
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