Nation IN BRIEF : NEW JERSEY : Jury Deliberations Start in Murder Case
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A jury in Elizabeth, N.J., began deliberating whether former Sunday school teacher John Emil List was a “hideous angel of death” or was mentally disturbed when he killed his wife, three children and mother. List’s attorney has conceded during the eight-day trial that List, 64, committed the killings in 1971. But he sought a lesser verdict of second-degree murder. The jurors deliberated for six hours, then recessed until this morning. Before stopping, they asked for a re-reading of the judge’s instructions on the element of first-degree murder, willfulness, deliberation and premeditation.
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