By Ben Horowitz
The Star-Ledger
December 22, 2011
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/jury_in_chatham_priest_murder.html
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| Standing next to his attorneys, Jose Feliciano watches the jury leave after they got the case for deliberations. |
The jury in Jose Feliciano’s trial for the slaying of a Chatham priest is to resume deliberations at 9 a.m. today after failing to reach a verdict Wednesday during a four-hour session.
Wednesday’s deliberations began at noon, after the Superior Court jury received a corrected version of the judge’s instructions. The jury received the case Tuesday afternoon and had deliberated for just five minutes when it requested Judge Thomas Manahan’s 59-page jury charge.
Feliciano, 66, a former church custodian, is charged with murder in the Oct. 22, 2009, stabbing death of the Rev. Edward Hinds, 61, parish priest at St. Patrick Church.
Feliciano has admitted the stabbing but says he was provoked. His public defender, Neill Hamilton, asked the jury to find him guilty on the lesser charge of passion/provocation manslaughter.
Feliciano is also charged with felony murder and is seeking a not guilty verdict on that charge.
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