Night Stalker Jury Deliberating Again
Jury deliberations resumed in the Night Stalker case Monday after a weekend that included Friday off for jurors for the second consecutive week.
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 began its 17th day of deliberations in the case.
The panel is considering 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 spree of night-time 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-long trial ended in late July. But the deliberations were twice interrupted, 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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