Jury deliberations entered their fourth day today in the murder trial of a white former police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man during a traffic stop last year near the University of Cincinnati.
Tensing, 26, was charged last year with murder and voluntary manslaughter in the July 2015 shooting death of Sam DuBose as he tried to drive away from a traffic stop for not having a front license plate.
The jury of six men and six women 10of whom were whites and two blacks had began deliberating again at 8 a.m. this morning.
Shortly after 10am the jury re-entered the court room and passed a note to the judge again saying they were deadlocked
The judge presiding over the Ray Tensing case in Cincinnati then declared a mistrial.deliberation.
Yesterday the jury of 10 whites and two blacks told the judge they cannot reach a verdict. Hamilton County Judge Megan Shanahan asked them to continue deliberating.
Later the jury came into the courtroom, asked the judge for the definition of arrest. She responded that they have all the information they need, and instructed them to continue deliberating.
Tensing will remain free on $1 million bond.
Prosecutors will now have to determine if they will re-try the case or dismiss it. The key in that decision, according to legal experts, will be the breakdown of the jury.
It was reported that the jury had been leaning towards aquittal on the murder charge but were leaninng towards a guilty verdict on the voluntary manslaughter charge.
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