{"id":166794,"date":"2026-03-17T23:50:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166794\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:50:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:50:28","slug":"news-12-the-bronx-462","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166794\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | The Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"

The jury in the second murder trial of Edward Holley told the court again Monday they are deadlocked again<\/a>, and again the judge told the jury to keep trying.
\nIt was the third time in 11 days<\/a> of deliberation that the jury foreperson sent a note informing Orange County Judge Hyun Chin Kim the jury could not reach a verdict.<\/p>\n

“We the jury, after considering the evidence and doing our due diligence, have not been able to come to a unanimous decision,” the foreperson wrote. “We do not foresee any change.”<\/p>\n

Holley’s defense team wanted the jury to keep working, asking Judge Kim to read them special deadlock instructions in full and send the jury back to the deliberation room.<\/p>\n

The special prosecutors were less keen about the suggestion of continued deliberations, sharing reasons that would support a mistrial declaration.<\/p>\n

Judge Kim took the lunch hour to think it over: declare a mistrial or send the jury back to work.<\/p>\n

Later in the afternoon she said she would read the jury the full deadlock instructions and send them back to work.<\/p>\n

Holley was arrested in 2023, accused of killing his ex-girlfriend Megan McDonald in 2003 in the Town of Wallkill.<\/p>\n

Holley was charged with murder in concert with another person, meaning police and prosecutors believe someone else was there.<\/p>\n

It is still unclear who all might have been in the car at the time of the murder and geographically where the murder happened.<\/p>\n

The foreperson has sent the court 27 notes<\/a> since Monday, March 3rd asking to review testimony, informing the judge of a dispute in the jury room, asking for guidance deliberating, and saying they were deadlocked.
\nJudge Kim read the full deadlock instructions, known as an Allen Charge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The instructions ask that the jurors “start with a fresh slate,” “have the courage to be flexible,” and “be honest with yourselves.”<\/p>\n

The jury will return Tuesday morning for Day 12 of deliberations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The jury in the second murder trial of Edward Holley told the court again Monday they are deadlocked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,68416,30638,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-166794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-edward-holley","tag-murder-trial","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}