{"id":892,"date":"2016-10-12T02:09:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T06:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=892"},"modified":"2016-10-12T02:09:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T06:09:03","slug":"mistrial-declared-in-the-case-of-two-former-albuquerque-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/10\/12\/mistrial-declared-in-the-case-of-two-former-albuquerque-police-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistrial declared in the case of two former Albuquerque police officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mistrial has been declared in the case of two former Albuquerque police officers\u00a0charged with second-degree murder in the death of 38-year-old homeless man James Boyd\u00a0in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The jury panel was deadlocked with nine jurors in favor of a not guilty verdict and three voting guilty on second-degree murder charges against now-retired Detective Keith Sandy and former Officer Dominique Perez.\u00a0Judge Alisa Hadfield made the mistrial declaration on Tuesday after three days of deliberations.<\/p>\n<p>Sandy and Perez fatally shot 38-year-old James Boyd after a long standoff at his campsite in Sandia Mountain, \u00a0Albuquerque.<\/p>\n<p>Special Prosecutor Randi McGinn said outside the courthouse Tuesday that the topic of police use of force has become a polarizing issue, and she is not surprised that 12 jurors from the community were divided over the March 2014 shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">A mistrial has been declared in the case of two former Albuquerque police officers\u00a0charged with second-degree murder in the death of 38-year-old homeless man James Boyd\u00a0in 2014. The jury panel was deadlocked with nine jurors <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/10\/12\/mistrial-declared-in-the-case-of-two-former-albuquerque-police-officers\/\" title=\"Mistrial declared in the case of two former Albuquerque police officers\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[474,472,473,471,475,476,163],"class_list":{"0":"post-892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-usa","9":"tag-albuquerque","10":"tag-dominique-perez","11":"tag-james-boyd","12":"tag-keith-sandy","13":"tag-mistrial","14":"tag-police-officers","15":"tag-trial","16":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}