The four shootings, which all happened in a rural area north of Baton Rouge within a 7-mile (11-kilometer) radius of Sharpe’s home, left residents anxious for weeks during the summer and fall of 2017.ĭefranceschi was fatally shot in October 2017 while trimming weeds in front of his house on Boy Scouts camp property in Clinton, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northeast of Baton Rouge. BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - A stay of execution has been granted for convicted serial killer Daniel Joseph Blank by the Louisiana Supreme Court on Wednesday. But because the killings in Sharpe's case were before 2019 and since prosecutors declined the death penalty, the jury was allowed to return a non-unanimous decision.ĭefranceschi was the second person gunned down in a string of shootings authorities said they believe Sharpe committed.
Split verdicts were voted unconstitutional by Louisiana residents in 2018. “He clearly was entitled to a new trial,” Damico said.
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Supreme Court ruling in April that banned non-unanimous jury decisions.Ī district judge agreed with Damico and set a new trial for Sharpe for December, news outlets reported. On Tuesday, Sharpe's lawyer Tommy Damico argued that Sharpe's conviction should be voided and a new trial held because of a U.S. A Louisiana man had his first-degree murder conviction voided by a judge on Tuesday after his lawyer argued that the jury's split verdict was unconstitutional.Ī jury had found Ryan Sharpe guilty in December 2019 of killing 48-year-old Brad Defranceschi, a Boy Scouts employee, in an 11-1 verdict.
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