The jury could not reach a decision in talks Etan Patz

The jury could not reach a decision in talks Etan Patz

Talks of a man who claimed to have kidnapped and killed a 6-year-old Etan Patz, who lost their children sparked a national movement to find missing children 35 years ago, ended with a hung jury Friday after 18 days of deliberations.

The discussion about the fate of Pedro Hernandez, 54, started on 15 April, but the judge said Maxwell Wiley jury for the third time on Friday it could not reach a unanimous decision on the charges of murder and kidnapping. Wiley declared the mistrial, court officials said. The parties return to court on June 10.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said in a statement on Friday confirming his belief in guilt Hernandez.

Police arrested Hernandez in 2012 after his brother-in-law to his authority Hernández had confessed to the crime. Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, Hernandez, who works in a corner shop that Ethan went on the way to school, he told some people more than three decades, including a collection of his church and his fiancee, who was said to kill someone. Hernandez was finally admitted to the police.

Hernandez told police he lured Etan in an underground cellar with an offer of drinks, and immediately began choking child, Illuzzi-Orbon said.

Attorney Harvey Fishbein discount Hernandez recognition as ravings of a mentally ill man with a low IQ. The researchers found no DNA, fingerprints or physical evidence tying Hernandez with the crime, said Fishbein.
Defense lawyers also argued that details of the crime in his confession Hernandez did not give a sense of logic and that the police had recorded confession after Hernandez questioned for nearly seven hours.