Hung Jury Ends Trial In Marshall
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The case of a Marshall woman accused in the death of her 13-year-old daughter`s baby ended in a hung jury Friday night.
Jurors deliberated for five and a half hours and sent several notes to the judge saying that they were quote "hopelessly deadlocked".
The teen-ager`s mother, Julie Smith, was accused of inducing labor and allowing the baby to die.
Jurors also sent a note to the judge stating that they some of them felt Smith was guilty, but of a lesser charge. Smith was charged with first-degree murder.
Smith took the stand in her own defense yesterday afternoon after prosecutors rested their case.
She denied prosecutors` accusations. But, her daughter, 13-year-old Nakita Smith, tearfully told jurors a day earlier that her mother induced labor and let her infant son die.
