Local News in Brief : Southside Slayer Trial
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A jury in Compton deciding the fate of a Watts man accused of three of the so-called Southside Slayer murders was ordered Thursday to restart its deliberations after a juror was excused from the panel because of illness.
The Superior Court jury was in its third day of deliberations in the case against Louis Craine, 32, when an unidentified juror, a woman, became ill. A note from a physician explaining the illness persuaded Judge Janice Claire Croft to excuse the juror.
An alternate juror, one of six who sat through the three-week trial, was selected and the panel was then ordered by the judge to restart deliberations.
Craine is charged with the strangulation deaths of five prostitutes, including three investigated by the Los Angeles Southside Slayer Task Force. He also faces five counts of sex crimes that allegedly occurred during the homicides.
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