LOUISIANA
The New Orleans Advocate
BY JOHN SIMERMAN| JSIMERMAN@THEADVOCATE.COM
Nov. 18, 2015
Convicting the Rev. Kevin Boyd Sr. of repeatedly molesting a young member of his New Orleans flock during several years was never really an option in the jury room, said one member of the Criminal District Court panel that deadlocked Tuesday.
At the end of a weeklong trial and three hours of deliberation, the vote was 4-2 for Boyd’s acquittal, said juror Edwin Curry, who counted himself among the majority.
“We found the state didn’t do its job,” he said. “We didn’t find the guy innocent.”
One female juror held firm from the start that Boyd was guilty. The other guilty vote came near the end of deliberations, Curry said, after Judge Camille Buras ordered the split jurors to keep talking.
Because it was a six-member jury, not 12, the verdict needed to be unanimous.
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