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Jurors Offer Insight Into Conroy Conviction
Newsday reports that the jurors who convicted Jeffrey Conroy of killing Marcelo Lucero did not believe his claim that one of the other attackers had stabbed Lucero.
Conroy testfied that his previous admissions and written confession to having stabbed Lucero were part of a 17-month-long effort by him to protect defendant Chris Overton, a person Conroy had only first met on the day of the killing.
Juror Michael Engel said that “we didn’t buy that one bit.” The decision by the defense to put Conroy on the stand badly misfired, he said. “We didn’t buy anything he said,” Engel told reporters.
Jurors said they felt there was insufficient evidence to conclude that Conroy had formed an intention to kill Lucero, necessary for a second-degree murder conviction.
Tags : jeffrey conroy, marcelo lucero
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