A jury has reached a partial verdict in the New Orleans staged accident scam murder trial, but without a conviction for the death of Cornelius Garrison.
The four-week trial in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ended Thursday in a mixture of verdicts that local media described as shocking its observers, with a hung jury declared in the murder prosecutions for Sean Alfortish and Leon “Chunky” Parker. They were on trial for murdering Garrison in September 2020, soon after Garrison had pleaded guilty to involvement in the staging of accidents with trucks (and some other vehicles) and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
Judge Wendy Vitter declared a mistrial following the hung jury declaration…