Prosecutor: Haq Will Be Retried
Posted: 2:48 pm PDT June 4, 2008Updated: 7:06 pm PDT June 4, 2008
SEATTLE -- King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said Naveed Haq will be retried after the judge declared a mistrial in the case of the Jewish Federation shootings.A deadlocked jury on 14 of the 15 counts against Naveed Haq led the judge to declare a mistrial, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.The jury returned on its eighth day of deliberations, Wednesday, with a partial verdict on one count but was deadlocked on the remaining counts. The jury was to decide whether Haq would go to a prison or a mental hospital.The 32-year-old Tri-Cities man pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to murder, attempted murder and other charges.Two of the victims in the July 2006 shootings in which one woman was killed and five others were wounded were in the courtroom, along with the head of the Jewish Federation, when the decision was announced."I never was expecting this verdict," said Carol Goldman, a victim of the Jewish Federation shootings."The non-decision of the jury today is a disappointment, but the verdict did not do irreparable harm to our case, nor does it shake our confidence in our approach," said King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg.Satterberg went on to say that prosecutors plan to retry Haq and that the new trial will be the same as this one, a decision over "criminal justice or mental health."Prosecutors said they would like to start the retrial as soon as possible, hopefully before the end of the year.Satterberg said the charges will not change, except with the count where the jury found him not guilty.The Jewish Federation said it is disappointed with the hung jury verdict."We're extremely disappointed in the hung jury. The emotional roller coaster the victims and our community must continue to ride is untenable," said Robin Boehler, chair of the Federation's board in a statement released shortly after the judge declared the mistrial.The statement went on to say that the Jewish Federation had hoped for “some sense of justice and closure would be shared with the survivors.”The center said it will continue to have members at every day of the next trial.On Monday, after the jury announced that it could come to agreement only on one part of one of the 15 charges in the trial, the judge said she would not declare a mistrial. Prosecutors said it was their position that after nearly six full weeks of testimony they believed the jurors should deliberate further.The case went to the jury May 23.
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