Defence Awaits Decision On Third Mendieta Trial
Posted November 25, 2010 6:50 am.
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Erika Mendieta and her lawyer are waiting for a decision on her third trial for murder.
She’s accused of second-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Emmily Lucas. The two-year-old was killed in 2003.
The defence has requested that Mendieta be tried by judge alone.
Her first trial ended with a hung jury in 2009. Earlier this week, a judge declared a mistrial after the jury complained about an assistant Crown attorney’s strange behaviour.
Both jurors and Mendieta herself allege Paul Alexander, a co-counsel in Mendieta’s first trial, sat in the front row of the court and made strange and distracting faces.
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