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Jury Deliberations Continue in Sodhi Shooting Trial
10/09/2003
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-brf-sikh-shooting,0,6052808.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines
Deliberations Begin in Sikh Shooting Case
By Associated Press
October 8, 2003, 8:11 PM EDT
MESA, Ariz. -- A jury began deliberating Wednesday whether a man convicted of killing a turbaned, bearded Sikh days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks should be sentenced to death.
Jurors recessed without reaching a decision and were to resume deliberations Thursday.
Frank Silva Roque fatally shot Balbir Singh Sodhi, an Indian immigrant, outside Sodhi's gas station on Sept. 15, 2001.
Prosecutors said Roque targeted Sodhi because he believed he was an Arab. "He was no different than the terrorists that attacked New York," prosecutor Vince Imbordino said.
The defense said Roque suffered from a mental illness and that the terrorist attacks triggered an episode of insanity.
"America does not execute mentally ill citizens in its communities," attorney Daniel Patterson said.
After Sodhi's shooting, authorities said Roque shot at another gas station where the clerk was a man of Lebanese descent and at the home of an Afghan family. They were not injured.
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