Jury Still Deliberating in Klaas Case
Jurors put in their first full day Tuesday without coming to a decision on whether Richard Allen Davis should live or die for kidnapping and murdering Polly Klaas.
Before retiring without reaching a verdict, jurors asked for transcripts of closing arguments from both sides.
Santa Clara County Judge Thomas Hastings turned down the request on the grounds that arguments are not evidence.
The panel of six men and six women already has found Davis, 42, guilty of murdering 12-year-old Polly after kidnapping her from a slumber party in her Petaluma bedroom on Oct. 1, 1993.
Because they found the “special circumstances” of kidnapping, burglary, robbery and attempting a lewd act on a child, they now must decide whether he should be executed or sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Jurors were to resume deliberations this morning.
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