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HAMPTON — The Hampton Commonwealth's Attorney's Office on Monday dropped all charges in a 4-year-old pending murder case.
Louis H. Haynesworth, 33, formerly of Lassiter Drive, had faced murder and gun charges in the July 2007 death of Rodann Lee Ford, 30, of Kecoughtan Road.
The move to drop the charges came less than three weeks after Judge Wilford Taylor Jr. declared a mistrial just before trial.
Taylor called the mistrial on Aug. 24 after several jurors were removed from a jury pool for saying they wouldn't have sympathy for a drug dealer — such as Ford — killed in the course of dealing. Several raised their hands to the question that such a drug dealer "got what he deserved."
http://www.dailypress.com/news/hampton/dp-nws-murder-case-dropped-0913-20110912,0,3611304.story
HAMPTON — The Hampton Commonwealth's Attorney's Office on Monday dropped all charges in a 4-year-old pending murder case.
Louis H. Haynesworth, 33, formerly of Lassiter Drive, had faced murder and gun charges in the July 2007 death of Rodann Lee Ford, 30, of Kecoughtan Road.
The move to drop the charges came less than three weeks after Judge Wilford Taylor Jr. declared a mistrial just before trial.
Taylor called the mistrial on Aug. 24 after several jurors were removed from a jury pool for saying they wouldn't have sympathy for a drug dealer — such as Ford — killed in the course of dealing. Several raised their hands to the question that such a drug dealer "got what he deserved."
http://www.dailypress.com/news/hampton/dp-nws-murder-case-dropped-0913-20110912,0,3611304.story