BREAKING: A jury declined to recommend the death penalty Wednesday for a man who raped, stabbed and strangled a 25-year-old Orange Park vet tech before beating her to death with a fire extinguisher.
A jury in 2010 took just 20 minutes to recommend death for Jackson, but the vote was 9-3. This time, for the jury to recommend death, the vote had to be unanimous.jury that found Jackson guilty last weekendJurors then deliberated for just over 90 minutes Wednesday before returning to the courtroom and saying that they had unanimously found that the state had proven that aggravating factors existed in the case. But they also agreed that the defense had established mitigating circumstances.
The retrial in Boyer’s murder saw years of delays because of the pandemic and a fight over DNA evidence found on the suspected murder weapon, aDNA collected from a rape kit done on Boyer’s body matched Jackson, who had been previously convicted of rape and burglary in the mid-1980s and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He was released early and was not out for long before Boyer was killed.
And the jury also considered Jackson’s prior violent felony in the 1980s and how he was on probation when Boyer was killed in 2007. “I just wasn’t a good mother,” said Betty Daniels, Jackson’s mother. “I was high myself, and I thought that would be something funny because it was his first birthday, and I would go put beer in his bottle, and I never really took care of him.”
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