5 years, 1 month ago by Scott Hardy
Jurors couldn't reach a verdict after 13 hours of deliberation
After 13 hours of deliberation, an Adams County jury couldn't agree on a verdict in the 1st Degree Murder trial of a Quincy man, accused of fatally shooting another man in 2015.
A mistrial was declared early Wednesday morning in the trial of Steven Gavin. The jury of 9 women and 3 men got the case just before 11:30 Tuesday morning, and by 5 PM had told Judge Robert Adrian that they were deadlocked. Adrian told them to keep deliberating, but after an additional 7 and a half hours, told the Judge they could not agree on a verdict. That's when Adrian declared a mistrial. Our news-gathering partners at KHQA-TV report that both the prosecution and the defense cited what they said were “outside influences” surrounding this case that didn’t affect jurors, but did affect the outcome. They would not elaborate. Gavin faces four counts of 1st Degree Murder and one count of Armed Robbery. He's accused of fatally shooting Carlous Wires, Sr., then robbing him in his North 4th Street home in November 2015, in a disagreement over the price of a drug sale.
A status hearing in the case is set for February 27th. Gavin remains in the Adams County Jail on $5 million bond.
