NEW ORLEANS - A previously convicted killer is now a free man after being afforded the opportunity to a second trial following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that non-unanimous jury votes were unconstitutional.
The case went to trial in 2017, and it took a jury just three hours to convict Taylor and Nelson of murder by an 11-1 jury vote. Now, eight years after the shooting, Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams offered Nelson a plea deal of 30 years for manslaughter. He accepted that deal. Taylor, however, did not accept the deal and instead chose to go to trial.
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