‘Night Stalker’ Jury Takes 2nd Day Off
For the second consecutive Friday, the “Night Stalker” jury took a day off from deliberations in the serial-murder case.
The jurors and alternates were sent home Friday morning after one member of the jury called in sick. On the previous Friday, no deliberations were held because another juror had to travel out of town for a family funeral.
On Monday, the Los Angeles Superior Court jury is to begin its 17th day of deliberations in the case.
The panel is considering the 13 murder and 30 other felony charges against Richard Ramirez, the 29-year-old drifter from El Paso accused of committing the crimes during a rampage of nighttime residential burglaries throughout Los Angeles County, mostly in the spring and summer of 1985. If convicted, he could face the death penalty.
The six-month trial ended in late July. But the deliberations were interrupted twice, once when a juror was dismissed for sleeping on the job and again after another juror was killed in a domestic quarrel.
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