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PDFFrom the LA Times:
The trial of a middle school student who shot and killed a gay classmate during a morning computer lab ended in a mistrial Thursday when jurors said that after 17 hours of deliberations they could not agree whether to convict Brandon McInerney.
Jurors deadlocked 7 to 5 in favor of voluntary manslaughter in the emotional two-month trial in which the unstable backgrounds of the two boys and the actions of school officials in the weeks leading up to the stunning 2008 shooting inside an Oxnard classroom were laid bare.
McInerney sat stiffly and silently at the defense table as Ventura County Judge Charles Campbell declared a mistrial. His mother, Kendra McInerney, sobbed into her hands. The parents of victim Larry King, Greg and Dawn King, stormed from the courtroom with other relatives, even as the judge was still addressing the jurors.
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