FORT LAUDERDALE — A guy who has been convicted and sentenced to die 2 times in the 2010 slayings of a Wilton Manors few is asking for a 3rd demo, alleging jury misconduct throughout his most latest listening to and sentencing.
Peter Avsenew, 38, was discovered responsible final June for the murders of Stephen Adams and Kevin Powell, who ended up uncovered slain in their Broward County house just after staying beaten and shot.
The decide put off a ruling in the circumstance and scheduled a further listening to for Dec. 7 to concern a ruling.
The jury’s decision final summertime was the next time that Avsenew experienced been identified guilty.
In 2017, he was convicted and sentenced to loss of life but that decision was overturned by the Florida Supreme Courtroom, which tossed it based mostly on a technicality involving testimony by his mother that was dominated inadmissible.
Avsenew was once more sentenced to dying in Oct by the very same jury that convicted him 5 months ago.
But in court docket Monday, that jury’s foreman admitted throughout a hearing that he had watched a documentary about the circumstance before he deliberated on Avsenew’s punishment.
That bolstered Avsenew’s legal professionals, who argued that the jury foreman did his very own analysis right after the panel handed down its responsible verdict but just before the sentencing period experienced happened.
A 2nd juror was also questioned Monday by the choose, who reportedly reviewed some penned correspondence, components of which have been not presented through the next listening to.
When the juror was questioned by the decide if they experienced executed any exploration exterior of the courtroom proceeding, which violated an instruction by the decide, the juror explained, “Of course, your honor.”
Avsenew’s lawyer stated the plan about the killing was sensational and involved data not presented for the duration of the demo.
