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No verdict in Missouri professor's case
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OLATHE — For the second time in five months, jurors were unable to reach a verdict Wednesday in the trial of a college music professor accused of killing his lower and trying to make the death look like a suicide.
David Lee Stagg, who teaches at the University of Central Missouri in Warensburg, was on trial for first degree murder in the April 2004 death of William Jennings.
Johnson County District Judge John Anderson III declared the jurors "hopelessly deadlocked" around noon Wednesday, said Brian Burgess, a spokesman for the
prosecutor's office.
The jurors began deliberations Tuesday.
Stagg's first trial ended in October with jurors unable to reach a verdict after 11 hours of deliberation over two days.
Jennings, who owned a court reporting service, was 51 years old when he was found dead in the living room of his Shawnee home, his neck wedged in the base of a decorative wrought-iron bird cage.
During the trial, Assistant District Attorney Lannie Oriburn said an argument between the men on April 24, 2004, turned physical, so much so that the assailant knocked the veneer off Jennings'
Knowing that Jennings had attempted suicide the previous fall, Stagg wrote a fake suicide note on Jennings' laptop computer, Ornburn said.
front teeth.
Defense attorney Tom Bath acknowledged that Stagg, 59, and Jennings had quarreled. But he said Stagg left and went to a condo that he co-owns on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Mo.
The defense said there was no physical evidence tying Stagg to Jennings' death and claimed an unknown third person must have committed the crime.
motion seeking to dismiss the case.
Burgess said prosecutors will decide whether to retry the case after the hearing and a meeting with lennings' family.
"This is a tough situation for the family of Bill Jennings. He was a good man and he deserves justice. My thoughts and prayers go out to them," Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline said in a written statement.
"There was a lot of evidence to consider, and I want to thank the jury for their service over the past two-and-a-half weeks."
KANSAS LEGISLATURE Bill making English official language goes to Senate
stance, according to the chairman of the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee, which endorsed the bill Wednesday.
"It's a nothing bill. It acknowledges that English is what we speak here!" Sen. Pete Brungardt, R-Salina, said after the committee.
sent the House-passed bill to the Senate for debate.
TOPEKA — Legislation making English the state's official language is more form than sub-
research director for El Centro Inc., a Hispanic advocacy group in the Kansas City area, said, "There's no reason to believe the bill will have the intent they hope. You can't beat a language into people's heads."
Under the bill, no state or local government agency would have to provide documents or hold meetings in any language other than English.
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Rod Johnston, owner of King Kong Services, fixes an exterior wall of Fasher Hall on Wednesday.
Rodhn came down from the top of the building while being suspended by a safety rope.
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