Fog Blog New Brunswick Log:

EVAN POLCHIES WHO WAS ON TRIAL IN THE SHOOTING DEATH OF A KNOWN DRUG DEALER ...BOBBY MARTIN WILL HAVE A NEW TRIAL SET.....AFTER MANY HOURS OF DELIBERATION , THE JURY ENDED IN A DEADLOCK AND THE JUDGE DECLARED A MISTRIAL!......Justice Judy Clendening has declared a mistrial in the second-degree murder trial of Evan Polchies after the jury was unable to reach a verdict. The decision came at about 10:40 a.m. Sunday, after more than four days of deliberations and nine days of testimony. Polchies was on trial in the shooting death of Bobby Martin Jr. In court Sunday, Clendening thanked the jurors for their efforts, and discharged them after they informed her they had still not been able to come to a unanimous decision. Jury in Evan Polchies trial says it's deadlocked, but will deliberate more ambush or self-defence?

Saturday evening, jurors told Clendening they weren't able to reach a verdict. She asked jurors if they were willing to deliberate further, in an effort to avoid a mistrial.After a few minutes of discussion, they told the judge they were, and were sequestered at their hotel until Sunday morning, when they resumed deliberations, but only for a short period before coming back to the court to say they were still deadlocked. Some facts in the case were not in dispute. Both sides agreed that Martin Jr. died in hospital after being shot twice by Polchies at the Tamarack Estates mini-home park in Lincoln, near Fredericton.