Jan. 14--The Chicago Tribune Media Group's Lake County News-Sun reports: Prior to this week, the last time the double-jury system was used to hear a case in Lake County Circuit Court was 28 years ago.
William Fillyaw, 37, and Johnny Parker, 31, are being retried on first-degree murder and attempted murder charges in the slaying of 28-year-old Lasondra Shaw in her North Chicago apartment in June 2007. Their 2009 convictions were reversed at the state appellate court level for trial errors.
Their cases are technically severed and two separate juries are hearing the trial, sometimes in court separately and sometimes at the same time. The two-jury method is used in cases where considerable duplication can be avoided but certain evidence pertaining to one defendant is not appropriate for the jury of the other defendant to hear.
Read the full story at the Lake County News-Sun.
