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Jury begins deliberations in deadly prison riot trial

Published  February 13, 2019 10:31am EST
U.S.
FOX 29 Philadelphia

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - A jury has begun deliberations in the second in a series of trials for inmates charged in a deadly Delaware prison riot.

Jurors began deliberations Tuesday afternoon. The four defendants in this trial -- Obadiah Miller, John Bramble, Kevin Berry and Abednego Baynes -- are charged with first-degree murder, assault, kidnapping, riot and conspiracy in the 2017 riot. Prison guard Steven Floyd was killed, and three other staffers were taken hostage.

MORE: 16 inmates charged with murder in deadly Delaware prison uprising | 1 inmate found guilty of murder in Delaware prison rio

Defense attorneys have focused on differing accounts of the riot from witnesses. But in his rebuttal, Deputy Attorney General Brian Robertson argued that the flaws in their statements show they're genuine.

The first trial, of three inmates, resulted in one murder conviction.

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