12-05-2011, 04:39 PM
Hartford Courant
Jurors began deliberating the fate of Cheshire home invasion killer Joshua Komisarjevsky Monday afternoon at about 3:06.
The same jury of seven women and five men found Komisarjevsky guilty Oct. 13 of murdering Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, Hayley and Michaela, inside their Cheshire home.
Six of the 17 charges Komisarjevsky, 31, was convicted of are punishable by death, although the jury could instead sentence him to life in prison without parole.
Superior Court Judge Jon C. Blue began charging the jury and going over the verdict forms at 10:20 a.m. Monday morning and finished his instructions to the jury shortly after noon.
"Once you begin deliberations, the timeclock is in your hands," Blue told the jurors, adding that the court would still take the regularly scheduled court breaks and would end each day at 5 p.m.
Jurors began deliberating the fate of Cheshire home invasion killer Joshua Komisarjevsky Monday afternoon at about 3:06.
The same jury of seven women and five men found Komisarjevsky guilty Oct. 13 of murdering Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, Hayley and Michaela, inside their Cheshire home.
Six of the 17 charges Komisarjevsky, 31, was convicted of are punishable by death, although the jury could instead sentence him to life in prison without parole.
Superior Court Judge Jon C. Blue began charging the jury and going over the verdict forms at 10:20 a.m. Monday morning and finished his instructions to the jury shortly after noon.
"Once you begin deliberations, the timeclock is in your hands," Blue told the jurors, adding that the court would still take the regularly scheduled court breaks and would end each day at 5 p.m.