Jury deadlocked in castration case
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 12:27 am
An interesting story that seems to have slipped the News tracks....A lady is on trail for ripping a mans scrotum off! That has got to hurt, but then he might have been liquored up as well.
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Jury deadlocked in Harnett County castration case
By Jennifer Calhoun
Staff writer
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LILLINGTON The jury in the case of a Harnett County woman accused of malicious castration reached a deadlock Friday, but the judge ordered them to return Monday for more deliberations.
A little after 7 p.m., the jury foreman told the judge that the panel was split 11 to 1. The foreman did not reveal whether the split favored guilt or innocence.
Defendant Rebecca Dawson, accused of using her fingernails to tear off a mans scrotum at a Christmas party last year, cried when the jury made the announcement.
On another charge of assault inflicting serious injury, the foreman told the judge that the jury was split 8 to 4. Which group favored guilt wasnt revealed.
Deliberations started around noon. Just before 7 p.m., the jury sent a note to the judge that said, We are deadlocked. We cannot all agree to make the same decision. Judge Steve Balog called the jury into the courtroom.
One female juror was crying and appeared angry when she took her seat. Another juror one of four men on the panel shook his head and asked permission to address the judge.
He said, When they say were deadlocked, were deadlocked. Aint nobody going to budge.
The judge told the jurors they must reach a decision and ordered them to continue deliberations at 10 a.m. Monday.
In closing arguments earlier in the day, the defense said Dawson tore Kevin Russ scrotum in self defense. But the prosecutor said Russ was the victim, and described the injury as a vicious attack from an angry, drunken woman.
Russ, Dawson and others had been drinking heavily at a Christmas party in Lillington. According to testimony, Russ and Dawson got into a fight during which she ripped his scrotum with her artificial fingernails.
Jason Wunsch, one of two lawyers representing Dawson, repeatedly called Russ version of what happened preposterous in his closing argument.
Wunsch raised questions about Russ assertion that he was the victim of an unprovoked assault. Russ, Wunsch reminded the jury, is a former Special Forces soldier.
This person knows how to control a situation, Jason Wunsch, defense attorney.
Wunsch said that the report from an officer on the scene did not corroborate Russ story, and the lawyer reminded the jury that no medical evidence of Russ injuries was submitted.
According to Wunsch, Dawson grabbed Russ only because he was holding her and would not let her go.
Shes no saint, Wunsch said of his client, who testified Thursday that she had been drinking heavily and had taken off her shirt after Russ asked her to have sex with him and his girlfriend.
But, Wunsch said, She certainly didnt ask for this to happen.
During her trial, a police officer testified that she cracked a window on a patrol car by kicking it and shouted profanity at officers and a magistrate.
Wunsch said that she was angry because she was being arrested when she was the real victim. He said that officers basically stopped the investigation when they saw the injury to Russ.
Assistant District Attorney Charles Bullard said that Russ underestimated how dangerous Dawson could be. Russ testified Wednesday that he was simply trying to keep her from driving home because she had been drinking heavily.
Rebecca Dawson is very violent when she is drinking and doesnt get her way, Bullard told the jury. He said that she doesnt fight like a woman.
When you lay hands on her, you better be ready to fight a man, he said.
Russ testified that Dawson clawed his face, then grabbed his scrotum. Bullard said that she escalated the fight because he wasnt fighting back.
She meant to harm that man in the most private way, in the most permanent way, Bullard said. Kevin Russ will never be the same man.
Bullard showed the jury pictures of what he described as a hunk of meat torn from Russ scrotum. That was all the medical evidence needed, he said.
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Jury deadlocked in Harnett County castration case
By Jennifer Calhoun
Staff writer
ADVERTISEMENT
LILLINGTON The jury in the case of a Harnett County woman accused of malicious castration reached a deadlock Friday, but the judge ordered them to return Monday for more deliberations.
A little after 7 p.m., the jury foreman told the judge that the panel was split 11 to 1. The foreman did not reveal whether the split favored guilt or innocence.
Defendant Rebecca Dawson, accused of using her fingernails to tear off a mans scrotum at a Christmas party last year, cried when the jury made the announcement.
On another charge of assault inflicting serious injury, the foreman told the judge that the jury was split 8 to 4. Which group favored guilt wasnt revealed.
Deliberations started around noon. Just before 7 p.m., the jury sent a note to the judge that said, We are deadlocked. We cannot all agree to make the same decision. Judge Steve Balog called the jury into the courtroom.
One female juror was crying and appeared angry when she took her seat. Another juror one of four men on the panel shook his head and asked permission to address the judge.
He said, When they say were deadlocked, were deadlocked. Aint nobody going to budge.
The judge told the jurors they must reach a decision and ordered them to continue deliberations at 10 a.m. Monday.
In closing arguments earlier in the day, the defense said Dawson tore Kevin Russ scrotum in self defense. But the prosecutor said Russ was the victim, and described the injury as a vicious attack from an angry, drunken woman.
Russ, Dawson and others had been drinking heavily at a Christmas party in Lillington. According to testimony, Russ and Dawson got into a fight during which she ripped his scrotum with her artificial fingernails.
Jason Wunsch, one of two lawyers representing Dawson, repeatedly called Russ version of what happened preposterous in his closing argument.
Wunsch raised questions about Russ assertion that he was the victim of an unprovoked assault. Russ, Wunsch reminded the jury, is a former Special Forces soldier.
This person knows how to control a situation, Jason Wunsch, defense attorney.
Wunsch said that the report from an officer on the scene did not corroborate Russ story, and the lawyer reminded the jury that no medical evidence of Russ injuries was submitted.
According to Wunsch, Dawson grabbed Russ only because he was holding her and would not let her go.
Shes no saint, Wunsch said of his client, who testified Thursday that she had been drinking heavily and had taken off her shirt after Russ asked her to have sex with him and his girlfriend.
But, Wunsch said, She certainly didnt ask for this to happen.
During her trial, a police officer testified that she cracked a window on a patrol car by kicking it and shouted profanity at officers and a magistrate.
Wunsch said that she was angry because she was being arrested when she was the real victim. He said that officers basically stopped the investigation when they saw the injury to Russ.
Assistant District Attorney Charles Bullard said that Russ underestimated how dangerous Dawson could be. Russ testified Wednesday that he was simply trying to keep her from driving home because she had been drinking heavily.
Rebecca Dawson is very violent when she is drinking and doesnt get her way, Bullard told the jury. He said that she doesnt fight like a woman.
When you lay hands on her, you better be ready to fight a man, he said.
Russ testified that Dawson clawed his face, then grabbed his scrotum. Bullard said that she escalated the fight because he wasnt fighting back.
She meant to harm that man in the most private way, in the most permanent way, Bullard said. Kevin Russ will never be the same man.
Bullard showed the jury pictures of what he described as a hunk of meat torn from Russ scrotum. That was all the medical evidence needed, he said.
http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=280516 (http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=280516)