Jury Acquits Man on Murder Counts
A jury Tuesday found a former University of California, Berkeley, student innocent of murder in the 1984 slaying of his girlfriend, but the jurors continued deliberating on a charge of manslaughter.
The jury acquitted Bradley Page on charges of first- and second-degree murder in the killing of Roberta Lee, who vanished after she and Page went jogging in the wooded hills behind the Berkeley campus.
The missing woman’s body was discovered after five weeks, buried in a shallow grave. Page was arrested after giving police a statement he later recanted.
The unusual partial verdicts were returned after the jury received special instructions Tuesday. The instructions followed a declaration Monday night that jurors were deadlocked.
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