San Diego
Jurors in the retrial of Sagon Penn ended their first day of deliberations Wednesday without reaching a verdict.
The jury forwarded several procedural questions to San Diego County Superior Court Judge J. Morgan Lester, who answered them privately in the jury room after meeting with prosecution and defense attorneys in his chambers.
Penn, 25, faces five felony counts in the shooting death more than two years ago of San Diego Police Agent Thomas Riggs and the wounding of Agent Donovan Jacobs and civilian ride-along Sarah Pina Ruiz.
The defense claims Penn, a black, shot to defend himself from a racially motivated attack.
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