“It was a hopelessly hung jury.”
Was that person re-tried?
No, but the state kept looking for something to get on the woman or her daughter, and some time later the daughter did time for something. I don’t know the details. The woman, mother, who was on trial probably wasn’t the person who did the shooting, and by the time the trial was over, I suspected it was a third party, most likely her son. It was a case of a not so bright young man having a crush on a girl who wasn’t interested. After months of nothing but rejection, the girl invited the young man to her house. Supposedly the mother and daughter tried to tell the young man to leave her alone, and he got outraged. The panicked mother shot him numerous times with a .25 auto.