PLATTSMOUTH–(KFOR June 5)–With a 3-3 deadlock vote by Cass County jurors, a mistrial was declared Friday in the case against a 57-year-old Palmyra man for the February 2025 fatal crash that killed Nebraska State Trooper Kyle McAcy, who was responding to another crash during snowy conditions on Interstate 80 involving a snow plow.
Now, the Cass County Attorney will have to decide to retry the case against the defendant, Thomas Jordan, according to Nebraska law.
McAcy was a 10-year veteran of the State Patrol. A preliminary investigation determined Trooper McAcy and another trooper responded around 9:20 a.m. on Feb. 17, 2025 to a crash involving a Nebraska Department of Transportation snowplow and two passenger vehicles on eastbound I-80 near Ashland…