The judge declares mythial in the process of murder of the OC judge accused of shooting wife - NBC Los Angeles

A myistial was declared on Monday in the murder process of a judge of Orange County, accused of shooting and killed his wife in the couple’s Anaheim Hills House.

The jury divided by 11-1 for a second-degree murder charge shortly after resuming deliberations Monday morning.

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Deliberations started on February 26 in the trial of Jefffery Ferguson, 74 years old, who is accused of murder with conviction improvements to unload a weapon that causes death and personal use for August 3, 2023, the death of his 65 -year -old wife, Sheryl.

The jurors could have condemned Ferguson for second-degree murder or involuntary murder if they didn’t buy it.

Near the end of the Monday deliberations, the jurors reported that they were at an impasse for the second -degree murder charge. Jurors can discuss both accusations in their deliberations, but they must first pay him by the second degree before he can vote on the involuntary murder.

As the deliberations spread in the new week, the jury reported that they were at a deadlock, but the efforts continued to make a decision. The judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles, Eleanor Hunter, as jurors, Thursday after -how many votes obtained, and Forewoman said more.

Hunter asked them to return to deliberations and discuss.

During the closing arguments, lawyers for criminal prosecution tried to convince the jurors that Ferguson was upset following a dispute with his wife at a restaurant. When two two returned home, Ferguson took the weapon and killed his wife in a tragic chain of events that justify a condemnation to murder, prosecutors said.

“Vi was presented evidence – credible evidence – removed the weapon, was upset,” Deputy District Prosecutor, Seton Hunt, said on Wednesday. “He pulled out the weapon, he pointed to her and killed her.”

Defense lawyers claimed that shooting was accidental.

“No, absolutely no. It was an accident,” Ferguson said when asked by Defense Lawyer, Cameron Talley, if he means to shoot his wife.

The Fergusonia and their son Phillip went to El Mexican restaurant that day, but Sheryl Ferguson left after her husband made a hand gesture during an argument, according to the testimony. Later, at home, Phillip Ferguson said he heard his mother say something in the sense: “Why don’t you show a true weapon on me?”

Calling his most reliable footage account, Hunt played the son of the son later to the police: “I returned and he gets a weapon and she targets fires.”

Hunt called the judge’s account -that he was thrown with Glock to pulled from an ankle and accidentally downloaded when he tried to place it on a clogged coffee table -“ridiculous”.

Phillip Ferguson said that his mother’s last words were, “he shot me,” Hunt said.

Hunt suggested that Ferguson could have climbed the floor and put the weapon, as he usually did every night before bed.

“I could have done a lot of things,” Ferguson said.

Ferguson’s blood alcohol level was 0.065 percent when it was measured seven hours after shooting, Hunt said. An expert confessed that it is probably approximate .17 percent, or almost twice the legal limit for leadership, at the time of the shot, Hunt said.

Talley challenged the argument of criminal prosecution, saying that it comes from a misunderstanding of how the weapons operate. Talley noted how Hunt referred to the loading of bullets in the weapon during the process, when the weapon uses magazines. Talley also said that the path of the bullet as a pathologist in case he confessed that he rejects any legal theory that Ferguson’s arm was crooked at an angle of 45 degrees.

Talley noted the testimony of a detective about how far the casing in the pistol projectile would go if it had been fired as theorized by the criminal prosecution. But Talley said she was found right next to the coffee table, which was in accordance with her theory of accidental shooting.

Talley also claimed that the home surveillance video also indicated that there is no muscle flash, which was also in accordance with an accidental fire. The bullet passed through the abdomen of the victim “slightly left” and came out of the top right of her back, which will fit the angle in which the defendant said that the weapon was wrong, Talley argued.

Talley said there is no evidence that his client was upset, but he said, tried to make peace and end the conflict.

“It’s not upset,” he said. “Where does this drunken anger come from?”