The conviction of a former Culpeper police officer could be thrown out just 24 hours after jurors convicted him of murder. Daniel Harmon-Wright was found guilty on three counts in the 2012 shooting death of Patricia Cook.
With his head hung low and his hands and feet in shackles, Harmon-Wright was brought into court for what was supposed to be his sentencing hearing after being convicted Tuesday of manslaughter. Instead, it was the jurors under oath after it was discovered two dictionaries and one thesaurus were brought into the jury room during deliberations, a violation of the judge’s rules.
Six jurors admitted to looking up definitions of at least one of these words: "malice," "malicious," or "unlawful."
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