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First day of Barrios Trial Wraps Up
Ann Butler Created: 9/30/2009 11:04:46 AM Updated: 9/30/2009 7:07:35 PM
BRUNSWICK, GA -- The jury in the trial of David Edenfield wrapped up its first day of testimony today with a description of the 61-year-old defendant's interrogation following the disappearance of 6-year-old Christopher Michael Barrios, Jr.
Former Glynn County Investigator R.J. Sorrow testified that Edenfield admitted seeing his son George sexually molest Christopher. Sorrow said Edenfield also told him he helped his son choke Christopher.
"I asked him if the devil had told him to do anything, or hurt the missing child, Christopher, and he told me 'yes,' that the devil told him to kill him," Sorrow testified.
The Barrios' neighbors David Edenfield, 61, his wife, Peggy, and their son George are charged in the 2007 death of the first-grader; they are being tried separately. Christopher Barrios had been playing in the yard of the mobile home park where he lived. That evening, his grandmother Sue Rodriguez was unable to find him.
Michael Barrios, Christopher's father, was the first to testify today. He said he saw the Star Wars toy his son had been playing with abandoned in the Edenfields' yard next door to the Barrios' mobile home. That tipped off police to question the family.
It took about an hour for both sides to complete their statements earlier this morning. Special Assistant District Attorney John Johnson described for the jury the events leading up to Christopher's death in the Edenfields' mobile home.
"Christopher Barrios did not want to be there. He told them to let him go. He said 'I want to leave. Let me go. Don't do this. I'm going to tell my parents,'" Johnson said.
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Prosecutor: Boy Begged Killers To Stop
Jurors Hear More Of Videotaped Confession In Day 2 Of Edenfield Trial
POSTED: Thursday, October 1, 2009
UPDATED: 4:44 pm EDT October 1, 2009
BRUNSWICK, Ga. -- Jurors in a Georgia courtroom Thursday heard more of a horrific videotaped confession from a man who admitted he and his adult son stripped, sexually assaulted and strangled a 6-year-old boy inside a mobile home as the child pleaded with them to stop.
On day two of 61-year-old David Edenfield's trial, the jury heard him tell investigators why he helped his son strangle 6-year-old Christopher Barrios.
"I saw George strangle the boy. I put my hands on George's hands," David Edenfield said in the videotape, referring to his son, 34-year-old George Edenfield.
"To help him? ... to help him, or for what reason?" an investigator asked him.
"I just put 'em on his hands. I did not squeeze," David Edenfield said in the tape.
Edenfield said it was instinct.
"I've never had the instinct to kill somebody, so what would be the instinct?" an investigator asked Edenfield in the tape.
"I guess I want to see what it feels like, I guess," Edenfield said.
Edenfield admitted that at anytime he could have helped Christopher to get out of his home, away from the molestation by him, his wife and his son.
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M.E. testifies; Defense Rests in Barrios Trial
Ann Butler Created: 10/1/2009 12:03:43 PM Updated: 10/2/2009 7:28:52 PM
BRUNSWICK, GA -- After three days and a description from the medical examiner of how 6-year-old Christopher Barrios Jr. was sexually assaulted and died of asphyxiation, the prosecution rested.
There was evidence of a sexual assault, plus a bite mark on the young boy's back, Jamie Downs of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation told the jury today - the final day of the prosecution's case in the David Edenfield capital murder trial.
"My opinion would be, the most likely means to cause Christopher's death would have been by that neck compression, be it by an arm from the sides in a sleeper hold, by a towel
on the neck or by palms up against the side of his neck," Downs said.
Edenfield sat with his lawyers showing little emotion during the medical testimony.
The Barrios' former neighbors, Edenfield, 61, his wife, Peggy, and their son George are charged in the 2007 death of the first-grader. They are being tried separately, and David Edenfield's is the first trial.
Christopher had been playing in the yard of the mobile home park where he lived. That evening, his grandmother Sue Rodriguez was unable to find him.
Former Glynn County Investigator Raymond Sarro finished testifying today, telling the jury that he had to pull information from Edenfield, who he said was not honest with him during the early stages of the interrogation.
Sarro also described what he saw when he arrived at the Edenfields the day Christopher disappeared. "The house was lit up but, the shades and the curtains were closed and you could see outlines of the individuals in the house and the edge of the curtain being pulled back," he said.
The investigator noted that when he first entered the home and met David Edenfield, he was dressed in a T-shirt and underwear. Sarro told him to get dressed so he could question him.
Next, the defense will begin its arguments. The trial will continue Saturday, and possibly Sunday.
Also on Thursday, the jury heard that forensics do not connect David Edenfield to Christopher's body. Georgia Bureau of Investigations forensic biologist Barbara Retezer said there was no DNA evidence found on Christopher.
However, she said, time, heat and humidity are all variables in collecting DNA and other forensic evidence. After seven or eight days, such evidence is not viable, she said.
Glynn County Special Prosecutor John Johnson had prefaced Retezer's testimony in his opening statement Wednesday. He told the jury that the case was not about DNA, but testimonial evidence.
Earlier this week, the prosecution spent the morning driving home the defendant's confession by showing jury members a taped interrogation, which Sarro continued to discuss today.
On the videotape, Edenfield tells Sarro that he sexually assaulted and strangled Christopher. Edenfield describes to Sarro Christopher's crying and threats tell his parents.
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Peggy Edenfield Takes Stand; Recounts Details of Murder
Ann Butler Created: 10/1/2009 12:03:43 PM Updated: 10/3/2009 1:53:45 PM
BRUNSWICK, GA -- As the prosecution closed their case early Saturday morning they called Peggy Edenfield to the stand to testify against her husband.
She recounted details of how her husband placed the body of young Christopher Barrios into their car after he was strangled and sexually molested.
The prosecution rested and the defense has now begun arguments.
The jury is hearing arguments and the trial could extend into Sunday.
After three days and a description from the medical examiner of how 6-year-old Christopher Barrios Jr. was sexually assaulted and died of asphyxiation, the prosecution continued into early Saturday morning.
There was evidence of a sexual assault, plus a bite mark on the young boy's back, Jamie Downs of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation told the jury today - the final day of the prosecution's case in the David Edenfield capital murder trial.
"My opinion would be, the most likely means to cause Christopher's death would have been by that neck compression, be it by an arm from the sides in a sleeper hold, by a towel
on the neck or by palms up against the side of his neck," Downs said.
Edenfield sat with his lawyers showing little emotion during the medical testimony Friday.
The Barrios' former neighbors, Edenfield, 61, his wife, Peggy, and their son George are charged in the 2007 death of the first-grader. They are being tried separately, and David Edenfield's is the first trial.
Christopher had been playing in the yard of the mobile home park where he lived. That evening, his grandmother Sue Rodriguez was unable to find him.
Former Glynn County Investigator Raymond Sarro finished testifying today, telling the jury that he had to pull information from Edenfield, who he said was not honest with him during the early stages of the interrogation.
Sarro also described what he saw when he arrived at the Edenfields the day Christopher disappeared. "The house was lit up but, the shades and the curtains were closed and you could see outlines of the individuals in the house and the edge of the curtain being pulled back," he said.
The investigator noted that when he first entered the home and met David Edenfield, he was dressed in a T-shirt and underwear. Sarro told him to get dressed so he could question him.
Also on Thursday, the jury heard that forensics do not connect David Edenfield to Christopher's body. Georgia Bureau of Investigations forensic biologist Barbara Retezer said there was no DNA evidence found on Christopher.
However, she said, time, heat and humidity are all variables in collecting DNA and other forensic evidence. After seven or eight days, such evidence is not viable, she said.
Glynn County Special Prosecutor John Johnson had prefaced Retezer's testimony in his opening statement Wednesday. He told the jury that the case was not about DNA, but testimonial evidence.
Earlier this week, the prosecution spent the morning driving home the defendant's confession by showing jury members a taped interrogation, which Sarro continued to discuss Friday.
On the videotape, Edenfield tells Sarro that he sexually assaulted and strangled Christopher. Edenfield describes to Sarro Christopher's crying and threats tell his parents.
At one point on the tape, Sarro asks Edenfield what he thinks should happen to him. He responds, "Well, um, well, um, I'm really not sure right now....because I have never done nothing like this before. I really don't know...."
Later, Edenfield says he "should be punished for the crime."
The trial will continue tomorrow at the Glynn County courthouse. The defense and prosecution are expected to call several dozen witnesses.
The jury was seated in Jeff Davis County, about 90 miles from Brunswick, where they will be sequestered during the trial.
Peggy Edenfield, 58, will be tried last per a deal with the prosecution to testify against her husband. George Edenfield's trial is pending a determination of his mental fitness for trial. _________________ "Sell Crazy Someplace Else. We're all stocked up here."
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Grandmother of Christopher Barrios suffers chest pains as Peggy Edenfield recounts boy's strangling
Testimony in murder case is rambling, often contradictory and confusing.
* By Teresa Stepzinski
* Story updated at 9:34 AM on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009
BRUNSWICK — Christopher Barrios Jr.’s grandmother suffered chest pains in the courtroom Saturday afternoon, forcing her to leave briefly as their family’s former neighbor Peggy Edenfield testified that her husband and son choked the 6-year-old boy to death after sexually assaulting him two years ago.
Sue Rodriguez was helped outside by relatives and bailiffs shortly after 3 p.m., but returned about 20 minutes later.
She told The Times-Union that she had a “sick sharp pain” in her chest from stress as Edenfield entered her fourth hour of convoluted testimony about Christopher’s killing, in which she downplayed her involvement, in her husband’s death penalty murder trial.
“Listening to all the lies coming out of her mouth, it got to me,” said Rodriguez, who was Christopher’s paternal grandmother.
Superior Court Judge Stephen Scarlett recessed the trial at 6 p.m. Saturday as Peggy Edenfield was nearing her sixth hour of testimony.
The nine-man, seven-woman jury will return at 1 p.m. today to continue hearing evidence. By law, Georgia juries cannot deliberate on Sundays but are allowed to hear evidence.
Rodriguez went pale , then left the courtroom clutching her hand to her chest shortly after Edenfield testified that after discovering Christopher in their home, she “grabbed him by his hand, led him to the door and walked him home.”
She then recanted, telling jurors that she did not try to get Christopher out of their house, although she was aware that because son George Edenfield was a registered sex offender, he was not allowed to be around children.
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Both sides of rest after fifth day of testimony
Posted: Oct 04, 2009 11:09 PM EDT Updated: Oct 04, 2009 11:38 PM EDT
BRUNSWICK, GA (WTOC) - Peggy Edenfield spent a second day on the witness stand. But her words seemed to defend her son George in the murder of Christopher Barrios more than for the man on trial, her husband David Edenfield.
"So according to your statements, did you think George did it and then not think George did it?" asked Defense Attorney James Yancey
"I get confused," replied Edenfield's wife Peggy.
Defense attorneys continues to point out changes in her stories from her interviews with police until now as to how Christopher was molested and killed in the Edenfield home and who hid the six-year old's body. After their cross examination, Edenfield's attorney's abruptly rested their case without calling a single witness for the accused killer's defense.
Defense attorneys had listed Peggy Edenfield as a witness for their side. But 7 hours of cross examination over 2 days may have given them what they hoped for. Now it will be up to jurors to decide how much of the Edenfield's video confessions to believe - including ones from David Edenfield himself.
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If she's lying on the stand, which is evident, then I say the prosecutor should take the deal off the table. She made a deal to tell the truth, and isn't keeping up with her end of the bargain.
Can the prosecutor do the same? Take the deal off the table??? _________________ "Sell Crazy Someplace Else. We're all stocked up here."
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Prosecution Rests in Barrios Murder Trial
Ann Butler Created: 10/1/2009 12:03:43 PM Updated: 10/4/2009 6:40:54 PM
BRUNSWICK, GA -- The prosecution has rested it's case against David Edenfeild late Sunday afternoon and closing arguments will begin tomorrow.
The prosecution continued on with its case in the trial of David Edenfield in Glynn County around 1 p.m. today.
Edenfields wife, Peggy Edenfield remained on the witness stand for several hours testifying against her husband.
Today, for the first time the jury saw video of Peggy and George talking in private after their arrest. Both were heard denying killing Barrios.
Also for the first time the prosecution played video of Peggy being questioned by police and describing the gruesome details of when she watched her husband and son molest Christopher Barrios.
David Edenfield is on trial for murdering and sexually assaulting 6-year-old Christopher Barrios. Barrios was found dead in garbage bags a week after he was reported missing by family.
Peggy Edenfield, who is also charged in the boy's death, spent several hours testifying as to what happened in the Edenfield's trailer home.
Prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty against Peggy Edenfield in exhange for her testimony.
Edenfield told the jury her husband, David, carried Barrios' body from their trailer and put it in the trunk of their car.
"I tried to get my husband's hands off my son's, then tried to get my son's hands off Christopher's," testified Edenfield who said her husband and son, George, were choking the 6-year-old.
Defense attorney's hammered away at Edenfield's credibility, saying she has been less than truthful from the very beginning with police. David Edenfield's attorneys on Sunday are expected to begin presenting their evidence in the murder trial.
Peggy Edenfield recounted details of how her husband placed the body of young Christopher Barrios into their car after he was strangled and sexually molested.
After three days and a description from the medical examiner of how 6-year-old Christopher Barrios Jr. was sexually assaulted and died of asphyxiation, the prosecution continued into early Saturday morning.
There was evidence of a sexual assault, plus a bite mark on the young boy's back, Jamie Downs of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation told the jury today - the final day of the prosecution's case in the David Edenfield capital murder trial.
"My opinion would be, the most likely means to cause Christopher's death would have been by that neck compression, be it by an arm from the sides in a sleeper hold, by a towel
on the neck or by palms up against the side of his neck," Downs said.
Edenfield sat with his lawyers showing little emotion during the medical testimony Friday.
The Barrios' former neighbors, Edenfield, 61, his wife, Peggy, and their son George are charged in the 2007 death of the first-grader. They are being tried separately, and David Edenfield's is the first trial.
Christopher had been playing in the yard of the mobile home park where he lived. That evening, his grandmother Sue Rodriguez was unable to find him.
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From the WTOC newsroom:
Closing arguments are over in the murder trial of David Edenfield who is charged with sexually assaulting and killing 6-year-old Christopher Barrios in 2007. Now, jurors are deliberating on whether to convict Edenfield in the case. If convicted, Edenfield faces the death penalty.
Bureau chief Dal Cannady has been in the Brunswick courtroom since the trial began last week and he'll have all the latest information.
Dozens of residents are picking up the pieces after an apartment complex on Whitemarsh Island was destroyed in a fire over the weekend. Justin Burrows has been following this story and today, he spoke with some of the fire victims displaced by the blaze.
AAA is challenging drivers to put down their cell phones while behind the wheel this week to show how much safer driving can be without distractions. Don Logana found one driver caught with cell phone i n hand today and found out if she'll take the week-long challenge to become a safer driver.
Tune in tonight starting with THE News at 5:00 and check out wtoc.com any time for the latest news, sports and weather.
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Edenfield Guilty on All Counts; Sentencing Phase Starts
Ann Butler Created: 10/5/2009 10:51:57 AM Updated: 10/5/2009
BRUNSWICK, GA -- After deliberating for about two hours Monday afternoon, the jury has returned guilty verdicts on all nine counts against David Edenfield.
Six-year-old Christopher Barrios Jr was found dead in 2007 one week after he disappeared from his home. Edenfield, his wife, Peggy, and their son George were all charged in the murder. David Edenfield's trial is first.
The jury found Edenfield guilty on all counts: kidnapping; murder; enticing a child for indecent purposes;
false imprisonment; cruelty to children; aggravated child molestation; child molestation; concealing the death of another person; and tampering with evidence. He will face the death penalty. The sentencing phase of the trial is now under way.
After the sentence was handed down, Christopher's father, Michael Barrios reacted, "Very happy, very happy. It's not over with yet. We've got the sentencing to go through now."
"The truth came out in court."
Members began deliberations shortly before 2 p.m. Monday on the sixth day of the trial, following closing arguments.
In his closing, District Attorney Stephen Kelley told the jury that all fingers pointed to Edenfield in Christopher's murder.
"What it boils right down to is David Edenfield has convicted himself. He's his own architect, his own planner and he has convicted himself," Kelley said.
He played for the jury a portion of Edenfield's taped confession and his response to investigators when asked what he would have done differently.
"Well, I'm going to tell you it was my fault; it was my boy (George)," Edenfield says. "I should have been a grown man and stopped it right then, but I didn't."
Kelley asked the jury to convict, reasoning, "Why should we care? Why should the jury care if a child suffered a horrendous, tortuous death?"
This is a case about "simple people, simple facts and there is a simple answer to all of this," he said.
Defense attorney James Yancey Jr. spent about an hour during his closing Monday hammering home the conflicting testimony of Peggy Edenfield, who took the stand over the weekend. She will not face the death penalty in exchange for her testimony and will be tried last.
"I will stand here before and tell you I cannot tell you which one is false because there is so much that's been said," he said. "Whatever Peg Edenfield said is questionable."
The prosecution rested its case Sunday after using Peggy Edenfield's testimony at the last minute. Originally, the prosecution planned the medical examiner who testified Friday as its final witness. The defense rested Saturday without calling any witnesses.
On Sunday, the prosecution played a video of Peggy Edenfield, describing in horrific detail what happened in the last few minutes of Barrios' life.
"I heard him say stop, he was crying," Edenfield explains on tape.
She tells police interviewers about watching her husband, and son molesting Christopher. "I tried to get them to stop, they wouldn't stop. I said, 'you all stop,'" says Edenfield.
She also was on the witness stand for several hours.
In cross examination, defense attorneys tried to highlight some of the contradictions in Peggy Edenfield's testimony over the last two days. But the video clearly laid out what was at the heart of the prosecution's case, with Peggy Edenfield describing how George and David Edenfield choked Christopher after they molested him.
In the video Edenfield gestures to her own neck to show how it happened saying, "George had his hands like this and David had his hands on top of George's." _________________ "Sell Crazy Someplace Else. We're all stocked up here."
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Jury Chooses Death Penalty for David Edenfield
Gary Detman Created: 10/6/2009 7:42:00 AM Updated: 10/6/2009 7:09:32 PM
BRUNSWICK, GA -- The jury that found him guilty voted to put David Edenfield to death for the murder and sexual molestation of 6-year-old Christopher Barrios Jr.
It took the jury two hours to make its decision.
In his closing arguments late Tuesday afternoon, District Attorney Stephen Kelley argued passionately that death was an appropriate sentence. He asked the jury to defend the life of young Christopher.
"I defended Christopher Barrios when he could not defend himself from that animal right there," he said, gesturing toward Edenfield.
The defense objected immediately to the characterization and Kelley moments later apologized for his choice of words.
During his closing, defense co-counsel John Beall asked the jury to show mercy on Edenfield, 61. "He's going to die in prison either a natural death or an unnatural death. That's a fact, and the decision is up to you."
"To give him something less than death (should not be seen as) forgiveness," Beall said.
The jury had three sentencing options: life in prison with parole, life in prison without parole or the death sentence.
Barrios disappeared from his neighborhood outside of Brunswick in March 2007. Authorities found his body in a garbage bag a few miles from his home a week later.
Edenfield, his wife, Peggy and their son George all lived next door to where Christopher lived with his father. All three Edenfields face charges in the case. George Edenfield is a convicted child molester. Peggy Edenfield testified over the weekend against her husband and will be tried last in exchange for testifying. As part of the deal, she cannot receive the death penalty.
Later Tuesday afternoon during his closing, Kelley referenced Edenfield's past as a cook for many years in the Brunswick area. "He can take orders from a cook in a kitchen and perform it well, but he cannot heed to the pleas of a 6-year-old boy being tortured. What kind of man is David Edenfield?"
In the morning, the prosecution called its only witness in the death penalty phase, forensic psychologist Philip Barron.
Barron examined Edenfield in late September, days before the trial began, and found no problems with his mental health. "There is nothing about his mental health picture in terms of intelligence or any kind of mental illness that would get in the way of being able to differentiate right from wrong," he said.
Members deliberated for two hours Monday before finding Edenfield guilty on nine counts related to the kidnapping, molestation and murder of Barrios.
Christopher's father, Michael Barrios testified Monday evening, sobbing as he read his witness impact statement to the jury. He recalled how his smiling son would cheer him up on bad days, how Christopher would go to grandma's house to watch TV and play computer games, and how they'd go to the beach together.
"I often look at his pictures and it hurts so bad that I won't see this child grow up to be a man," he said.
He told jurors he loved to take his son to Walmart to look at the latest toys. "I always tried to get him what he wanted," said Barrios. "He was a good kid and deserved it."
But for the two closest to Christopher, the happy moments are no longer there.
"My only joy is my kids and a chunk of it is gone," said Christopher's grandmother Sue Rodriguez. "I had to quit my job. It's hard to do anything with all of this."
Monday evening, the defense focused on witness accounts of Edenfield as a responsible, reliable and kind person.
A corrections officer said he was a model inmate, spending much of his time in solitary confinement and never causing problems. Some witnesses described Edenfield as "slow" saying he could only do simple tasks.
For the First Coast News Page on the Christopher Barrios case, CLICK HERE.
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Good. I think the death penalty is completely appropriate for this crime. _________________ Pearls of Wisdom.... Never, ever, ever take a sleeping pill and a laxitive on the same night. |
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When I read the jury voted for the death penalty, I wondered if yesterday was too soon for him to be executed? ( I think it's not ) _________________ "Sell Crazy Someplace Else. We're all stocked up here."
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I agree Rhonda. What they did to this child just is so maddening. I know we cant resort to vigilante type justice or mob behavior and mentality but certainly some people can surely provide inspiration for it.
This family fits that catagory to me. ' _________________ Pearls of Wisdom.... Never, ever, ever take a sleeping pill and a laxitive on the same night. |
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I read about this the other day, but this article makes things clearer for me.
SOAPnet Pulls Picture of Christopher Barrios
Roger Weeder Taren Reed Created: 10/9/2009 4:38:27 PM Updated: 10/9/2009 7:02:18 PM
BRUNSWICK, GA -- The father and grandmother of murder victim, 6-year-old Christopher Barrios, have filed a civil lawsuit claiming invasion of privacy after Christopher's picture appeared on a soap opera.
Earlier this week, David Edenfield was convicted of murdering and sexually molesting the young boy in March 2007.
In October 2008, according to court documents, Christopher's picture appeared in a segment of General Hospital: Night Shift. The soap opera that airs on SOAPnet, allegedly showed Christopher's picture as a prop to depict a child who had been abandoned.
Mark Gelman is handling the lawsuit for the Barrios family and says the civil legal action was filed in Glynn County on Thursday.
"They felt they were taken advantage of after everything that they have gone through," said Gelman from his Jacksonville law office.
"All they wanted were simple answers; unfortunately the network would not give it to them...If we had those answers and were satisfied with those answers -- that this was a innocent mistake -- this lawsuit would never been filed," Gelman said.
A spokesperson for SOAPnet told First Coast News that it has pulled the picture of Christopher Barrios. They aired online and on-air PSAs in Christopher's honor. SOAPnet added that it is does not comment on lawsuits. _________________ "Sell Crazy Someplace Else. We're all stocked up here."
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Request by convicted murderer David Edenfield to hold a new trial
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