Jurors in Murder Trial Told to Keep Deliberating
Jurors in the trial of a West Los Angeles gynecologist accused of strangling and dismembering his 11-year-old son were ordered Wednesday to begin deliberations anew after a Pomona Superior Court judge excused one of them without explanation.
The jury had deliberated 10 days already in the case of Khalid Parwez, 40, who allegedly butchered his son Raheel on Nov. 17, 1987, and left the pieces in the trash bin of a Hacienda Heights apartment building. The jury forewoman had complained to Judge Gregory C. O’Brien Jr. that two jurors were having difficulty following instructions. On Tuesday she reported the panel was hopelessly deadlocked, 10 to 1, with one undecided. She did not say how the vote was split.
After interviewing several jurors Wednesday, O’Brien excused one and ordered the jury to begin deliberations Tuesday with an alternate.
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