INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – Prosecutors were undecided today as to whether to retry an Indio man who allegedly sexually abused a girl repeatedly, following a jury deadlock in deliberations regarding multiple rape allegations.
After two days of deliberations, an Indio jury on Tuesday afternoon informed Riverside County Superior Court Judge James Hawkins that it was unable to reach a unanimous verdict on five of 11 charges against Miguel Pedrero Tzompantzi, 40.
Jurors acquitted him of four counts of rape of a minor and convicted him of a misdemeanor charge of annoying a child. However, according to the District Attorney’s Office, the panel hung 11-1 in favor of convicting Tzompantzi of five remaining charges of rape of a minor…