In fatal shooting at Greenwell Springs Road club, trial ends in hung jury; declared mistrial

A deadlocked jury was unable to reach a verdict on Michael Robinson’s second-degree murder charge in a mass shooting outside a packed Baton Rouge nightclub.

Chief District Judge Donald Johnson, who presided over the case, declared a mistrial after more than six hours of deliberations late Friday evening.

The two-week trial was punctuated by legal jousting over surveillance videos and other key pieces of evidence that prolonged the proceedings by several days…

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