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    It seems readily apparent to me that *********** will ensure that crimes like these will indeed happen again, and that there is no apparent way to "prevent them."

    Sexual psychopaths will always be on the prowl for victims, and victims will always be potentially available to them.

    Therefore it seems that the only appropriate sentence for an initial sexual predator would be life without parole, before they begin to repeat their crimes again after being discharged from prison the first time. But we don't do that now. The sentencing guidelines do not do that.

    Awareness by potential victims also does not seem to be very high either. And while they are under age 18 their parents seem to give them way too much unsupervised freedom, which the kids themselves seem to actually demand. When over 18, everyone needs to be personally armed in order to "prevent" crime upon their own persons. The perps are ALWAYS going to be armed. It makes absolutely no sense NOT to allow citizens to be armed. But the bleeding/bleating far left do not permit that either.

    Being armed entails training courses, which are an indispensable prerequisite to being armed. We are not doing much of that as well.

    The overall American reaction to crime including sexual crime is universally burying our heads in the sand and going about out days as if crime did not exist, being unaware of our surroundings and unprepared to fight off crime ourselves.

    This case also showcases that victims' families almost universally WANT a death sentence for the perp that stole the life of their loved one. Therefore the desire to have a death penalty is virtually universal among crime victims' families. In this particular case, it is a good thing that the Feds could step in.

    A very sad story overall, as are all abductions-rapes-murders. But nothing ever changes. It keeps happening, and nothing ever changes.
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    Execution delays grow over time

    By Kyle Potter
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    Fargo, ND - Alfonso Rodriguez was 53 in 2006 when a jury here sentenced him to death for the brutal kidnapping, rape and murder of University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin.

    He’s 61 today, waiting on death row in Terre Haute, Ind., as one of his final legal recourses to save his own life plays out.

    If that appeal fails and the pattern of ever-increasing delays between sentencing and execution holds true, Rodriguez may not be injected with a lethal cocktail of chemicals until he’s in his 70s or older.

    The delay between sentencing and execution for death row inmates across the nation has increased from about six years in the mid-1980s to more than 16 years in 2012, according to data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

    Only five inmates sentenced to death after Rodriguez’s sentencing have been executed. Unlike Rodriguez, all of them dropped their appeals or asked to be put to death.

    A law professor and expert on criminal sentencing said a mix of different factors have stretched out delays: many legal avenues for appeal; a shortage of chemicals used in lethal injections and questions about their use; and a strong, nationwide push by groups opposed to the death penalty to help inmates on death row.

    “It’s a very long period between when somebody gets sentenced to death and when they even get close to the execution chamber,” said Douglas Berman, a law professor at Ohio State University.

    Support for the death penalty has been waning for years, polling shows, as have the number of death sentences issued. Berman said that may have given anti-death penalty organizations “an opportunity to highlight what they perceive to be systemic problems.”

    “The fewer cases there are, the more exposure each case gets,” he said.

    Linda Walker said she’s not surprised her daughter’s killer is still alive.

    “He’s never been held accountable for anything he’s ever done,” she said. “I knew he’d probably exercise his right to continue to fight.”

    A federal penalty

    Dru Sjodin’s death shocked the region.

    The 22-year-old college student disappeared from Grand Forks in November 2003. Her body was discovered nearly five months later in a ravine near Crookston, Minn.

    After a grueling 12-week trial, a jury convicted Rodriguez of kidnapping, raping and murdering Sjodin. Weeks later, the jury sentenced him to death – the first death penalty handed down in North Dakota in more than a century.

    North Dakota abolished its death penalty in 1973. Six states have abolished the death penalty in the past decade, bringing the tally to 16 states that ban capital punishment.

    But Rodriguez was tried in federal court, which was possible because he took Sjodin’s body across state lines.

    Rodriguez and the nearly 60 others on federal death row in Terre Haute have fewer options for appeal than do inmates convicted at the state level, legal experts say, which can result in shorter delays. While someone on death row in Texas can appeal to state and federal courts, Rodriguez has no state courts to appeal to.

    Rob Warden, executive director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law, said defendants sentenced at the state level have up to nine layers of appeal. Federal inmates like Rodriguez have just five such layers, he said.

    Only three inmates convicted in federal court have been executed since the Supreme Court reaffirmed the constitutionality of the death penalty in 1976. Their average delay between sentencing and execution was about six years.

    Rodriguez is down to what’s generally considered an inmate’s last appeal.

    His attorneys filed a habeas corpus motion in 2011 to appeal his death sentence, arguing he was denied effective counsel during his trial, was insane at the time he killed Sjodin and that he is mentally diminished, making him ineligible for execution.

    But a federal inmate hasn’t been executed since 2003, due in part to a court challenge to the use of lethal injection, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. All scheduled executions have been stayed as that case has proceeded through the legal system over the last six-plus years, Dieter said.

    ‘Juries are more skeptical’

    Nearly 1,400 people have been executed since 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

    Another roughly 3,000 inmates nationwide are awaiting their deaths, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

    The number of death sentences and executions has been slipping as the delay times between them have grown, statistics show.

    Dieter rejected Berman’s idea that the decreasing use of the death penalty has allowed groups like his own to pounce on cases, dragging out execution dates. Instead, he said he thinks the stories of wrongfully convicted inmates – like a man on death row for 30 years in Louisiana who was exonerated just last week – have made the legal system and the public more wary of sentencing someone to death.

    “Juries are more skeptical,” Dieter said. “It’s also caused the courts to look more closely for mistakes, to allow more hearings or testing.”

    Warden, from Northwestern’s Center on Wrongful Convictions, said there have been wrongful convictions on death row in Illinois. Twenty out of the 303 people sentenced to death were later exonerated, he said.

    “We’re supposed to be reserving the death penalty for the worst of the worst. If we can’t even get that fundamental question of who’s guilty versus who is innocent right, how can we possibly answer the question who deserves to live and who deserves to die?” he asked.

    Nearly eight years after her daughter’s killer was sentenced to death, Walker said she tries as hard as she can to accept that Rodriguez is still alive and appealing his sentence.

    “It was proven in a court of law that he was guilty,” she said. “I definitely feel that there’s been justice.”

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    Effect of mental disability ruling on Alfonso Rodriguez death penalty case is uncertain

    By Patrick Springer
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    FARGO – Alfonso Rodriguez once boasted of reading hundreds of books, but dropped out of school at the age of 18 without graduating.

    The man convicted of the 2003 kidnapping and murder of Dru Sjodin is mentally disabled, according to his lawyers, and therefore should be spared the death penalty.

    But prosecutors argue that Rodriguez is not mentally disabled, and therefore should be executed, as allowed under federal law.

    The issue of mental disability and the death penalty resurfaced after a decision Tuesday by the U.S. Supreme Court that rejected rigid IQ test standards in determining whether to impose the death penalty.

    Testing error presents an “unacceptable risk” of executing a mentally disabled person, which would violate the Constitution, the justices decided in a 5-4 opinion.

    Some states, including Florida, use a strict threshold, such as an intelligence test score of 70 or above, to determine eligibility for capital punishment.

    But the federal system under which Rodriguez was convicted and sentenced does not use a rigid test, lawyers and experts said Wednesday.

    “There’s no bright-line test,” said Keith Reisenauer, an assistant U.S. attorney involved in Rodriguez’s prosecution. “There’s nothing like that.”

    Joseph Margulies, one of Rodriguez’s defense lawyers, said he is aware of the Supreme Court decision striking down rigid intelligence tests.

    “I haven’t had a chance to examine closely how it will intersect with our litigation,” he said, adding that he also hasn’t had a chance to consult with other lawyers on the defense team.

    “It is obviously a step in the right direction,” he added. “I view it as a good decision, not just for Mr. Rodriguez. It’s a good decision for the law.”

    The federal death penalty law involves weighing a number of factors in determining a defendant’s mental eligibility for the death penalty, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.

    Even before Supreme Court rulings forbade executing mentally disabled criminals, federal law barred the practice, Dieter said.

    “It was just sort of a simple exclusion, so that leaves it to a trial court” to determine, weighing expert testimony and intelligence tests, he said. “No particular restriction is written into the law.”

    In an appeal pending in U.S. District Court in Fargo, Rodriguez’s lawyers have argued he suffered brain damage resulting from severe post-traumatic stress disorder caused by sexual abuse in childhood.

    Rodriguez spoke Spanish as his first language growing up, and his family moved between Laredo, Texas, and Crookston, Minn., before settling in Crookston when he was in the third grade.

    He was mocked and taunted by other children, according to court records, and his school performance declined when he was in the eighth grade. He failed ninth grade and later dropped out of school.

    “I struggled in school,” Rodriguez told an interviewer. “I got D’s and F’s. Even to this day I struggled to read an article in a newspaper or magazine.”

    Intelligence tests administered when Rodriguez was in school ranged from scores of 77, 79 and 80.

    Mental health experts who examined Rodriguez for the defense team handling his appeal determined that he is mentally [filtered word] and suffered from “significant defects in mental functioning, as reflected on intelligence scores and a pattern of academic failures.”

    But experts for the prosecution came to a different conclusion, finding that Rodriguez scores on the low range of normal intelligence.

    Prosecutors noted that Rodriguez completed a high school degree in 1979 while incarcerated in the Minnesota State Hospital.

    “Al is a very good student, capable of dealing with sophisticated ideas,” one teacher at the state hospital wrote in a passage cited by prosecutors. “He reads well.”

    In an interview by prosecution experts in the federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., Rodriguez spoke of following the news closely on cable television. He expressed the view that Edward Snowden, the former intelligence contractor who leaked documents, was a traitor.

    In the same interview, last July, Rodriguez characterized religion as “a bunch of goop,” adding, “if He’s so merciful you know so and if he doesn’t want evil in the world why doesn’t’ he get rid of it if he’s God? You know?”

    Sjodin, who was a student at the University of North Dakota, was abducted from the parking lot of a shopping mall in Grand Forks. Her body later was found in a ditch near Crookston.

    Rodriguez was convicted of her murder and kidnapping in Fargo in 2006. He is one of 60 federal prisoners now on death row, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

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    Dru Sjodin's killer questions juror conduct in death penalty sentencing

    FARGO, N.D. -- The man sentenced to death for the 2003 kidnapping and murder of Dru Sjodin is claiming juror misconduct during his trial.

    Next month, a federal judge is set to hear arguments related to a 2011 motion by attorneys for Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. His lawyers filed a habeas corpus motion outlining reasons the former Crookston, Minn., man should not be executed and now appear to claim juror misconduct during his trial.

    Rodriguez, 62, remains on death row at a federal maximum security prison in Terre Haute, Ind.

    The court docket shows Rodriguez's attorneys are claiming juror misconduct, but documents detailing the allegation, including prosecutors' response to it, are sealed in advance of a Sept. 8 hearing before U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson in Fargo.

    A single docket entry from June notes prosecutors responding to "alleged juror misconduct." The paperwork responds to documents filed by defense attorneys in March.

    Attorneys for Rodriguez also are requesting "temporary and partial closure" of the upcoming court hearing, which was set to address the pending habeas corpus motion, considered a last resort appeal to overturn Rodriguez's death sentence. The U.S. Supreme Court turned down his earlier appeals.

    In the latest arguments, death penalty attorneys claim Rodriguez didn't receive effective counsel at trial, was insane at the time of the crime and that he is mentally diminished, making him ineligible for the death penalty.

    Richard Ney, a death penalty expert, was among the defense attorneys appointed to represent Rodriguez before and during the 2006 trial. Ney and West Fargo attorney Robert Hoy, a former Cass County state's attorney, filed a litany of motions prior to the trial, including claims Rodriguez was mentally diminished.

    In 2003, Rodriguez stabbed and kidnapped Sjodin, a Pequot Lakes, Minn., native attending the University of North Dakota, while she talked on a cellphone in a Grand Forks mall parking lot.

    An extensive search ensued, and five months later she was found dead in a rural ravine near Crookston.

    A jury of seven women and five men unanimously convicted Rodriguez, a known sex offender with a 32-year history of attacking women, and recommended he should be put to death by lethal injection.

    The trial marked the first-ever federal death penalty case in North Dakota, which abolished the state's capital punishment law in 1973. The death sentence also marked the first time in more than 90 years that a defendant had been ordered to death in any case within the state.

    The Rodriguez trial featured three phases: guilt, eligibility for the death penalty and the sentence.

    In the final phase, it took three votes for jurors to reach a unanimous verdict to recommend the death penalty sentence, which Erickson later ordered to be done in South Dakota.

    Afterward, juror Arlys Carter said the first two votes came back 11-1 for death, with one person being a "question mark." A third vote brought the unanimous decision.

    "I think he changed his mind on his own," Carter said at the time. "He wouldn't have gone along with the group."

    Assistant U.S. Attorney Keith Reisenauer said Thursday he could not comment about the pending motion and claims.

    "Until I know what's going on, I'm not going to comment," said Luke Lillehaugen, one of the jurors for the trial. Attempts to reach nine of the other were unsuccessful Thursday.

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    Juror outraged over misconduct claims in trial of Dru Sjodin's killer

    By Emily Welker
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    FARGO -- A juror who helped convict and sentence to death the man who raped and killed Dru Sjodin is indignant over apparent allegations of juror misconduct the defense is making in its appeals aimed at sparing Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. from execution.

    Rebecca Brandt Vettel, one of the five men and seven women on the jury in the 2006 trial, wants to know what the defense claims they did wrong.

    "What are you saying about this awesome group of people who had nightmares, lost relationships and lost lives?" Brandt Vettel said in an interview Friday.

    Brandt Vettel plans to take off work and drive from Bismarck to Fargo next month to attend Rodriguez's habeas corpus hearing in U.S. District Court, even though she might not get the chance to observe the arguments.

    Rodriguez's attorneys have asked Judge Ralph Erickson to consider a "temporary and partial closure" of the hearing.

    Defense attorneys are expected to address at the Sept. 8 hearing their claims that there was juror misconduct in the trial, in which Rodriguez was found guilty of the 2003 murder of Sjodin, a Pequot Lakes, Minn., native attending the University of North Dakota.

    Much of the court documentation that lays out the details of their allegation is sealed, unavailable for public review.

    During the proceedings, jurors suffered through distressing and sometimes graphic photos and descriptions of how Rodriguez kidnapped the 22-year-old Sjodin at knifepoint from the Columbia Mall in Grand Forks, N.D., forcing her into his car and driving her across the border.

    There, the twice-prior convicted sex offender restrained, raped, stabbed and strangled Sjodin before dumping her half-undressed body in a frozen Minnesota field, where it wasn't discovered until after the spring thaw.

    The highly publicized case drew intense attention, and Sjodin's murder is credited with leading to increased scrutiny of sex offenders in the region. It remains the only federal death penalty case ever prosecuted in North Dakota, a state where no death sentence has been handed down since 1914.

    Since the trial, many jurors in the case have kept in contact. One of them, an older woman, has died. A younger male juror has died by his own hand, Brandt Vettel said.

    It's inconceivable that any of her fellow jurors could have played fast and loose with court rules enjoining them from discussing the case and consuming news coverage during the trial, Brandt Vettel said.

    She recalled asking motel workers where they were staying to move the newspaper dispenser from the front lobby, so she could avoid headlines about the previous day's proceedings.

    Each juror reached a decision on the death penalty based on his or her own independent analysis, Brandt Vettel said. Nor were there strong death penalty advocates or opponents flogging an agenda on the jury, she said.

    The misconduct claim diminishes the hard work and deep consideration each member put into sending Rodriguez to death row, and the long drawn-out nature of the appeals process prolongs the pain for both Sjodin's family, and for Rodriguez's, she said.

    "What makes me angry is the whole stupid process. ... I said this from day one," Brandt Vettel said. "I did not put him there. He put himself there. We just made it legal."

    http://www.twincities.com/localnews/...al-dru-sjodins

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    Lawyers Allege Juror Misconduct In ND Death Penalty Case

    FARGO, N.D. (AP) — An attorney for a man convicted of the 2003 killing of a University of North Dakota student spent several hours Tuesday questioning a juror about alleged misconduct, including whether she withheld information on a questionnaire because she was eager to be part of the proceedings.

    Jurors in 2006 convicted Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., of Crookston, Minnesota, of kidnapping and killing Dru Sjodin, of Pequot Lakes, Minnesota. It has been nearly four years since Rodriguez’s attorneys filed a federal habeas corpus motion, considered the last step in the appeals process.

    Among the myriad complaints by Rodriguez’s lawyers is juror misconduct, although court documents outlining those accusations are sealed from public view. During Tuesday’s hearing, Andrew Mohring, one of Rodriguez’s attorneys, spent several hours going over a 121-question survey with juror Rebecca Vettel.

    Mohring suggested through his questioning that Vettel failed to give truthful or complete answers on whether she had ever been arrested, whether she was ever involved in a lawsuit or how many times she had been inside a courtroom. Vettel had been arrested three times for driving without liability insurance and was involved in lawsuits as part of two divorces.

    Mohring asked Vettel if she “purposely chose to withhold information” to get on the panel.

    “I didn’t purposely withhold it,” Vettel replied.

    Through cross-examination by Assistant U.S. Attorney Keith Reisenauer, Vettel said she didn’t mention the arrests because the question excluded simple traffic violations and she believed they fit into that category. Vettel said she didn’t think to mention the lawsuits because they were part of proceedings during two divorces.

    Vettel also told the court she was the victim of an attempted sexual assault and suffered domestic abuse in prior relationships, which led Mohring to wonder why she didn’t include that in her questionnaire.

    Sjodin was abducted from the parking lot of a Grand Forks shopping mall in November 2003. Authorities say she was raped, beaten and stabbed by Rodriguez, a convicted sex offender. It is North Dakota’s only federal death penalty case.

    Tuesday’s hearing started nearly two hours late while technicians figured out how to hook up Rodriguez and one of his lawyers via video from a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. The video system went out again in the afternoon so Rodriguez and attorney Joseph Margulies listened over the phone.

    Another of Rodriguez’s lawyers began questioning another juror Tuesday afternoon, but U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson cleared the courtroom during her testimony because the judge said it was delving into sensitive information.

    Members of the Sjodin and Rodriguez families declined to comment afterward. The hearing resumes Wednesday.

    http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2015/0...-penalty-case/
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    Jurors testify in Alfonso Rodriguez death penalty appeal

    Juror testifies in hearing regarding misconduct in Rodriguez death penalty appeal

    FARGO -- All they asked her was to spell her name aloud, and Paulette Cotney burst into tears.

    Unexpected as it was, the feeling might have been shared by many in that courtroom, where so many of the same people had sat nine years before.

    Cotney and 11 other men and women had sweated through the six-week trial that summer of 2006, agonizing over the dark and ugly details of Dru Sjodin's bloody kidnapping, rape and murder, agonizing still more over their verdict.

    "We talked about those final moments," said Cotney's fellow juror, Rebecca Brandt Vettel, from the witness stand in U.S. District Court on Tuesday. "I can't imagine the fear."

    After handing in their verdict, death by lethal injection for Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., it was clear neither Brandt nor Cotney had ever expected to be there again.

    But both were sworn in as the first of a week's worth of witnesses by defense attorneys for Rodriguez, who are alleging juror misconduct in the case.

    The specifics of what that misconduct construed of remained murky until Vettel's testimony late Tuesday, thanks to dueling sealed motions in the case.

    On direct examination, defense attorney Andrew Mohring established that Vettel had checked "no" instead of "yes" on juror questionnaire items that would have otherwise revealed Vettel had survived two abusive marriages, and been the victim of a another, unrelated, attempted assault, one that had gone unreported.

    During jury selection, Vettel had also neglected to report she'd been involved in a handful of lawsuits and had even run afoul of the law herself, having been pulled over for driving without insurance on more than one occasion, Mohring pointed out.

    Mohring asked if she'd done so because she'd otherwise likely have been booted out of the jury pool, something Vettel denied.

    "I didn't purposely withhold it," she testified. "Crime was a more severe thing to me, I guess.

    Vettel was also questioned closely about statements she'd made publicly, decrying the lengthy appeals process that withheld closure from both Sjodin's and Rodriguez's families.

    Cotney took the stand to say she'd had misgivings from the beginning about the appeals process in the case.

    She admitted she couldn't accept Judge Ralph Erickson's explanation in 2006 that even if they gave Rodriguez life without parole, he would never be freed on appeal years later.

    It was important to her that he never be released to commit another crime, Cotney testified, and the death penalty would be one way to ensure that.

    "I've heard of people higher up, turning over decisions in courts. People being released from jail when they shouldn't be," she said.

    Her testimony is set to resume today.

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    If I had lost someone like Dru Sjodin I would be mad.

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    Timeline in federal death penalty appeal extends into 2017

    FARGO, N.D. (AP) - Lawyers in the case of a man sentenced to death for killing a University of North Dakota student in 2003 have discussed the timeline for his appeal - and it stretches into 2017.

    Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., of Crookston, Minnesota, filed a so-called habeas motion, generally considered the last step in the appeals process, in October 2011. Since then, a handful of hearings have been held in open court, including one in Fargo last month to investigate Rodriguez’s claim of juror misconduct.

    U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson posted an updated briefing schedule for the case following Thursday’s closed-door meeting with attorneys. Erickson said a hearing on mental health issues will be set for October 2016 and a hearing on forensic issues will be scheduled in January 2017.

    Lawyers handing the appeal have declined to comment outside the courtroom.

    Dru Sjodin, from Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, was abducted from the parking lot of a Grand Forks shopping mall in November 2003. Authorities say she was raped, beaten and stabbed. A jury sentenced Rodriguez to death on Sept. 22, 2006. It was the state’s first federal death penalty case and resulted in tougher laws for sex offenders.

    The nearly 300-page appeal filed by Rodriguez’s team claims, among other things, that he is mentally disabled and his trial lawyers were ineffective.

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said in a speech at the University of Minnesota earlier this month that he wouldn’t be surprised if the nation’s highest court invalidates the death penalty.

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    Appeals process for Rodriguez delayed again

    FARGO -- The lengthy appeals process for North Dakota's only federal death penalty case has been delayed again.

    U.S. District Court Judge Ralph Erickson canceled an evidentiary hearing set for Wednesday in the case of Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., who was sentenced to death for kidnapping, raping and murdering University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin more than 12 years ago.

    The 22-year-old disappeared from a Grand Forks shopping mall parking lot in late November 2003 and Rodriguez, a convicted sex offender, was arrested in early December 2003. After extensive searches, her body was discovered the following spring in a ravine near Rodriguez's home in Crookston, Minn.

    Jurors in the federal case found Rodriguez guilty at a 2006 trial and later sentenced him to be executed. He's been in federal prison awaiting death by lethal injection for nearly nine years.

    It wasn't clear what evidence attorneys would argue about at the hearing set for Wednesday. Many of the appeals arguments made in recent years in the case have been sealed from the public.

    There are two upcoming hearings in the case, both several months off, which were set by Erickson last fall.

    A hearing on Rodriguez's mental health issues is set for October. His defense has argued Rodriguez isn't mentally competent enough to be executed.

    A hearing covering forensics issues is set for January 2017.

    Defense attorneys have also challenged the case on the basis of alleged juror misconduct, claiming that one of the 12 jurors didn't disclose some personal information that could have kept her off the jury -- including a history of abusive relationships.

    http://www.grandforksherald.com/news...-delayed-again

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